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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The National Chairman of the crisis-ridden Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has said the party is superior to the offices of President and governor. Tukur, in a veiled reference to the lingering battle for the control of the soul of the PDP, advised the party members and other Nigerians to learn to build institutions […]
In spite of the Boko Haram insurgency in the country, Nigerian security agencies now have a fresh challenge to contend with. The new task, according to the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Azubike Ihejirika, is the presence of suspected terrorists believed to have been trained by Malian rebels, in Nigeria. Boko Haram terrorists, like […]
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