Eurozone deflation gathers pace in January

Deflation gathers pace across the eurozone

Deflation across the 19 countries that use the eurozone currency is gathering pace.

In January, prices in the eurozone were 0.6% down on their levels a year ago.
The figure shows the eurozone heading deeper into deflationary territory from December, when prices were 0.2% down on the year before.

APC Campaign Team Arrives In Lagos

All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, visited the most populous city in Nigeria, Lagos, with his campaign team, ahead of the February elections.

Muhammadu Buhari and his running mate Prof Yemi Osinbajo during the breakfast.

The Lagos state government has said that it deployed 500 officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority to manage traffic at the APC presidential campaign rally.

Prof. Pat Utomi writes on the controversial Charles Soludo article

Professor of political economy and former presidential candidate Pat Utomi shared this on his Facebook this morning. Read and tell us what you think... 

The firestorm generated by Chukwuma Soludo’s well reasoned commentary on the place of issues in the 2015 electioneering campaign has somehow become the core of the campaign. What a way to come from outside and define agenda.

Jordan 'says it will hang all ISIS captives' if group kills Jordanian pilot captured in Syria

Jordanian pilot First Lieutenant Mu'ath Safi Yousef al-Kaseasbeh was captured by ISIS militants in December after his plane was shot down while he was conducting airstrikes over Syria. Now Jordan has threatened to kill all ISIS prisoners in their country if Mu'ath is killed by ISIS.

Seun Kuti wants a debate with Gen. Buhari

Suge Knight arrested after killing friend in Hit and Run

Notorious former music exec Suge Knight has been arrested after fatally running down a friend on the set of the movie, 'Straight Outta Compton' after getting into a fight with security. He reportedly then backed up over the men he hit as he fled the scene. Full report from TMZ below..

Ekiti Youths Threaten Fayose

A socio-political group in Ekiti State, Ekiti Youth Vanguard, has threatened to hold the governor of the state, Ayo Fayose, responsible if anything happens to one Students’ Union Leader, Comrade Adeleke Samson, better known as Obama.
According to a report on Ynaija, the group made the statement following an allegation that thugs of Governor Fayose were the ones that attacked Adeleke and his colleagues after they endorsed the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) at a rally held in Ado-Ekiti on Saturday, January 24.
It was disclosed that Obama is currently in an intensive care unit at an Ondo hospital.
Narrating what transpired through a statement made public on Thursday, the spokesperson of the EYV, Charles Fakunle, said: “We read in the newspapers and social media about the gruesome attack on a Students’ Union Leader, Comrade Adeleke Samson (Obama), by suspected thugs of Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose.

Governor Ayo Fayose

“His offence was that he attended Buhari’s Presidential rally which was held last Saturday and joined other student leaders to endorse him.