NIGERIA has expressed concern over the alleged humiliation of its nationals living in Zimbabwe and urged Harare to address the situation to ensure strong bilateral relations are not undermined. The country’s Senate President, David Mark, expressed Abuja’s concern when he met Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe in the Nigerian capital Tuesday. Khupe said she was […]
Following the increased level of alert in United States missions across the world, the US Embassy in Abuja was closed to the public two hours ahead of schedule on Friday. An investigation by SATURDAY PUNCH showed that members of the staff of the embassy were allowed to go home earlier than the usual 1.00pm. Fridays […]
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and two Nigerians on death row in The Gambia who said they are about to be executed by the government have taken their case to the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja asking the court to urgently stop their impending execution. The Nigerians involved in the case are Micheal […]
OZIOMA UBABUKOH writes that in recent times, Imo State citizens and law enforcement agents now live in fear following indiscriminate killings and kidnappings, for which the government has offered cash incentives for information For Mr. Christian Iwunze, life was about family. He was the second of two siblings and the only son. But, as if […]
A chieftain of the All Nigeria Peoples Party has said over 65 per cent of former governors would have been in jail if the Federal Government had been committed to the fight against corruption. Former National Vice-Chairman of the ANPP, Chief Asukewe Iko-Awaji, expressed concern that only one former governor had been convicted and jailed […]
Gambia on Saturday suspended its plan to execute two Nigerians, Micheal Ifunaya and Stanley Agbaeze, and nationals of some other African countries. This is just as some Nigerians launched a drive to raise thousands of signatures for an online petition to President Goodluck Jonathan to pressurise him to save the death-row inmates. Gambia President Yahya […]
A businessman, Mr. Chibuike Achigbu, who was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Thursday over the alleged Chief James Ibori’s $15million bribery scandal has been granted administrative bail. The bribery was said to have been offered to the pioneer chairman of the EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu by Ibori when he was governor […]
The Forum for Justice and Human Rights Defence has advocated immediate suspension of the national honours awards insisting that the process and criteria for the award had been abused in the country. The National Coordinator of the group, Mr. Oghenejabor Ikimi, told our correspondent in Yenagoa that the award had lost its national value and […]
The Accountant-General of the Federation, Mr. Jonah Otunla, said on Friday that Nigeria’s monthly revenue dropped from N825.3 billion in July to N564.8 billion in August. He said this at the end of the monthly Federation Accounts Allocation Committee meeting in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Otunla attributed the development to “many […]
In this report, AKINWALE ABOLUWADE evaluates the political relevance of former Governor Rasidi Ladoja of Oyo State in the light of the crisis generated in the ruling Action Congress of Nigeria in the state as a result of the truce its leaders entered into with the Accord Party That Oyo State is the nexus of […]
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