Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is to arraign fresh suspects in the ongoing trial of persons and organisations implicated in the fuel subsidy scam. According to the anti-graft agency, 10 suspects comprising four companies and six individuals will be arraigned today (Friday) before Justice Habeeb Abiru of a High Court in Ikeja. A statement by […]
THERE were indications on Thursday that the Federal Government was set to ask for a review of the judgment of the International Court of Justice which ceded the oil rich Bakassi Peninsula to neighbouring Cameroon. The PUNCH learnt in Abuja that President Goodluck Jonathan had directed the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, […]
Another prosecution witness on Thursday said Henry Okah gave instructions for the October 1, 2010, twin car bombings in Abuja. The witness said he was a member of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta having joined the group in 2006. The third prosecution witness, who simply introduced himself as Stanley at the ongoing […]
ANGERED by the massacre at the Federal Polytechnic, Mubi, Adamawa State, National Chairman of the ruling Peoples, Democratic Party, Bamangar Tukur, on Thursday asked the Federal Government to put an immediate stop to indiscriminate killings in the land. Some gunmen on Monday night stormed an off-campus residence of the students and called them out for […]
SUSPECTED bank robbers and a fraudster, Nurudeen Oyeniyi, were on Thursday paraded by the Oyo State Police command. Twenty-three year Oyeniyi, a 300-level Mass Communication student of Lead City University, Ibadan, was arrested for allegedly defrauding some foreigners of millions of dollars. The suspect, who confirmed his involvement in Internet fraud, told the police that […]
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday named Vice Admiral Ola Ibrahim as the new Chief of Defence Staff. According to a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, Ibrahim, who is from Kwara State, replaces Air Chief Marshal Oluseyi Petinrin, who retires from service. Until his new appointment, […]
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the appointments of New Service Chiefs. The new appointments are: Vice Admiral O. S. Ibrahim from Kwara state as Chief of Defence staff, Rear Admiral D. J. Ezeoba from Delta state as Chief of Naval staff, while Chief of Air staff is Air Vice Marshall A. S Badeh from […]
BY HENRY UMORU Mallam Adamu Ciroma, 78, a journalist, administrator, politician and leader is a very strong voice for the North. He was appointed Governor of the the Central Bank of Nigeria in 1976 and served as Minister of Industry, later Agriculture and then Finance. As a politician, in 1979, he was one of the […]
From MOSHOOD ADEBAYO, Abeokuta The Nigeria Police Division in Itori, Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State was turned into a boxing arena on Tuesday when two traditional rulers engaged each other in fisticuffs over disagreement on a cultural festival. The two traditional rulers involved in what many have described as desecration of the Yoruba […]
From CHIDI NNADI, Enugu Ndigbo who rose last weekend from the 2012 Igbo Day celebration in Asaba, Delta State, re-echoed their collective resolve to have a shot at the presidency after President Goodluck Jonathan. President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Ralph Uwechue, who led other prominent Igbo sons and daughters to the two-day event reiterated the […]
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