Dr. Doyin Okupe The Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Media and Publicity, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has rejected criticisms saying that he committed an act of blasphemy by comparing his principal with Jesus Christ. Okupe, who visited the Corporate Headquarters of PUNCH Nigeria Limited on Thursday, said that Christ Himself advised His […]
Speaker, LAHA, Mr. Adeyemi Ikuforiji | credits: File copy The Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, has said the choice of Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and Prof. Yemi Osinbajo as representatives of the All Progressives Congress in the coming 2015 Presidential Election will change the country for the better if elected. In a […]
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday cautioned labour unions against punishing Nigerians with “unnecessary industrial actions.” Specifically, the President wondered why the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria and the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas workers would embark on a nationwide strike over issues involving an oil worker and his employer. […]
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CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele The Central Bank of Nigeria has barred commercial banks from holding any part of their funds in United State dollars as it steps up efforts to reduce pressure on the naira. The CBN, in a circulated dated December 17, 2014, ordered the banks to stop keeping one per cent […]
No fewer than 185 women have been reported kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents in Gumsuri, North of Chibok in Borno State. The insurgents, who killed about 32 men, set fire on the village with petrol bombs before herding the women and children in their pickup trucks. The Sunday incident is coming less than nine months […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Benin, Edo State, has granted a suit seeking to uphold the right of prison inmates to vote in all elections conducted in the country. The plaintiffs, who instituted the suit on behalf of inmates of Nigerian prisons, are Victor Emenuwe, Onome Inaye, Kabiru Abu, Osagie Iyekepolor and Modugu Odion. […]
The Lagos State Police Command has detained two Fulani herdsmen, Mohammed Umar and Manu Hassan, for allegedly robbing motorists on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Our correspondent learnt that Umar and Hassan, who were herdsmen from the Ngaski area of Kebbi State, were arrested by soldiers attached to the OP MESA while they were robbing some people. […]
After more than 48 hours of consultations, the All Progressives Congress appears to have reached a decision on the choice of the running mate for the party’s presidential candidate, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd). However, the party’s leadership is keeping the identity of the preferred candidate under wraps. But the party’s national chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, […]
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