admin - New Nigerian Politics - Page 1428 of 2308 | New Nigerian Politics

Lagos ambulance service ignored my dying son – Dad

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos Friday, January 18th, 2013

Ibirogba while burying his son. Photo: Kunle Falayi. Inset: Enoch When the Lagos State Government launched its ambulance service on December 7, 1999, the then governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, had appealed to officials and support staff to ensure success of the programme through prompt response to distress calls. But a resident, Mr. Olufemi Ibirogba, said […]

Opinion: Nigeria won’t break up

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, January 18th, 2013

How many times have we heard the expression “Nigeria won’t break up”? This clichéd expression has become the chorus of Nigeria’s ruling elite; an elite that will not raise a finger to defend the territorial integrity of Nigeria if it becomes necessary to do so. Like every bankrupt ruling class, ours never ceases to find […]

Reps probe MINT N2.1bn theft, Oshiomhole aide’s murder

Posted by admin Edo, Headlines, House, Legislature, State News Friday, January 18th, 2013

The House of Representatives on Thursday said it would investigate the theft of N2.1bn at the Nigeria Security Printing and Minting Company last December. It also ordered a probe into the alleged cover-up by the police in the investigation of the killing of Mr. Olaitan Oyerinde, the late Principal Private Secretary to Edo State Governor, […]

We must do more to end terrorism –Jonathan

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency Friday, January 18th, 2013

President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday admitted that Nigeria, and indeed, the world needed to do more to end terrorism and its impact on global peace. Jonathan spoke while receiving the new British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Andrew Pocock, who was in the Presidential Villa, Abuja to present his letter of credence. “The whole world […]

FAAN to destroy 65 abandoned aircraft

Posted by admin Aviation, Headlines Friday, January 18th, 2013

January 18, 2013 by Oyetunji Abioye 5 Comments The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria will next week commence the destruction of no fewer than 65 airplanes abandoned by domestic airlines in eight airports across the country. The Director of Airport Operations, FAAN, Mr. Henry Omeogu, who is also the Chairman of the agency’s Abandoned Aircraft […]

American cyclist, Lance Armstrong, stripped of 2000 Olympic bronze

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Friday, January 18th, 2013

Lance Armstrong has been stripped of his 2000 Olympic Games cycling time trial bronze medal by the International Olympic Committee, continuing the once dominant rider’s spectacular fall from grace after a doping storm. “We have written asking for the return of the medal from the Sydney 2000 Games,” an IOC official told Reuters on Thursday […]

Senate approves deployment of 1,200 troops in Mali

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Legislature, Senate Friday, January 18th, 2013

The Senate has approved President Goodluck Jonathan’s request for the deployment of 1200 Nigerian troops in Mali for “a limited combat duty.” Jonathan’s request reached the Senate on Thursday and was given immediate consideration – first, behind closed doors, and later approved in plenary. In spite of the reservation by the House of Representatives that […]

Only Lagos can survive without oil – Fashola (Indeed, all the others are parasites)

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Friday, January 18th, 2013

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State says Lagos is the only state that can survive if crude oil supply – the mainstay of Nigeria economy- is shut down. Fashola explained that this was possible because the government in the state had made it a policy to implement the laws on taxation to the letter, which […]

EFCC finally arraigns Babalakin over N4.7bn Ibori’s loot

Posted by admin Delta, EFCC Politics, State News Friday, January 18th, 2013

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has finally arraigned Chairman, Bi-Courtney Highway Services, Dr. Wale Babalakin, for allegedly laundering N4.7bn for convicted former Delta State Governor James Ibori. The EFCC late on Wednesday declared Babalakin wanted as he was said to have failed to report at its office, preparatory to his arraignment on Thursday. Arraigned along […]

Opinion: Vacancy in Jonathan’s State House

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency Friday, January 18th, 2013

Presidents do not lose battles. They win, all the time. It is a reason the office remains ever attractive. What with so much resources at a president’s disposal; and the uncountable number of canny men to carry out his or her instructions. So, why does getting whatever he or she wants, as the case of […]