From ADETUTU FOLASADE-KOYI, Abuja The Senate is set to move against what it described as unauthorized introduction of the Biometric Central Motor Registration (BCMR) scheme by the police. Its opposition to the new Police BCMR is based on the rejection of same by the Presidency on two occasions. Barring any change in plan, Chairman […]
A Benin High Court has awarded Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, N25million as damages in a libel suit the governor instituted against Docklands Communication and one Loye Amzat, publishers and editor of the News of the People Magazine. Governor Oshiomhole had dragged the soft sell weekly magazine to court demanding for N250million as damages over […]
Nwoye, PDP appeal Ukachukwu’s court victory nEzeemo, PPA candidate, raises campaign team From Geoffrey Anyanwu, Awka As tension mounts in Anambra State over release of the list of candidates for the November 16, 2013 governorship election, Comrade Tony Nwoye, the candidate the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), […]
Aformer presidential candidate of the Alliance for Democracy, Chief Olu Falae, on Tuesday in Lagos warned that corruption might “sink Nigeria’’ if it was not tackled headlong. Falae spoke at the public presentation of a book titled “Post Independence Political Evolution of Western Nigeria: Chief Obafemi Awolowo Factor.’’ The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the […]
The rain that fell for almost two days in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, has claimed lives of two people and destroyed property. The rain began on Sunday and continued till Monday night, sending panic through the flood-prone city. The Oluyole Local Government Area of the state was mostly affected by the downpour. Flood wreaked […]
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has asked the Court of Appeal, Abuja, to set aside the September 19 ruling of the Abuja Federal High Court in which it discharged former Deputy Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission, Prof. Bridget Sokan, and six others standing trial in a N6.4bn fraud charge. The six others […]
The leadership of the New Peoples Democratic Party has said that President Goodluck Jonathan is not qualified to seek reelection in 2015. The reasons why he cannot contest, according to the group, are: The 1999 Constitution, an agreement the President entered into and his open statement in Turkey in 2011. The President had on Monday […]
Delta State Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan in this interview with journalists, speaks on the need to diversify Nigeria’s economy from its current dependence on oil. JOHN ALECHENU was there. Excerpts: Why is it that states find it difficult to pay salaries each time the Federation Account Allocation Committee fails to meet to share money? Our economy is still oil-dependent […]
The crisis in the Kaduna State House of Assembly deepened on Tuesday with the impeachment of the Speaker, Mua’azu Gangara. A new speaker, Shehu Usman Tahir, was elected. But Gangara led 15 other members of the House, including the principal officers, to announce that he remained the Speaker. He insisted that those who impeached him […]
Strong indications have emerged that Islamic militants from some North African countries are coordinating attacks against the Nigerian military in the North Eastern part of the country. A military source told one of our correspondents in Abuja that security operatives came to this conclusion when they discovered that many Arabs of Shuwa descent and fair-skinned […]
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