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Govt lawyers advise FG to try Lawan, Otedola

Posted by admin Latest Politics Tuesday, August 14th, 2012

INVESTIGATIONS by The PUNCH have revealed that the Federal Government is in a dilemma about the probe of the Farouk Lawan-Femi Otedola $620,000 bribery scandal. The government, sources affirmed, had been undecided whether to prosecute only Lawan, the suspended chairman of the House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy, who had confessed to […]

Two suspected bombers blow selves up

Posted by admin Headlines, Kaduna, State News Tuesday, August 14th, 2012

Part of Kaduna metropolis was on Tuesday thrown into confusion as two suspected suicide bombers blew up themselves while taking an object suspected to be a bomb to an unknown destination. The two suspects, according to an eyewitness, were on a motorcycle heading towards the northern part of the state at about 3pm when the […]

Code of Conduct Bureau goes after govs, ministers’ assets

Posted by admin Governors, Latest Politics Monday, August 13th, 2012

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA — The Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, yesterday, said it has commenced the process of verifying personal assets of governors of the 36 states of the Federation and serving ministers. CCB Chairman, Mr Sam Saba, who made the declaration on a day the General Overseer and Founder of the Deeper Life […]

Delta govt, FG battle over Ibori’s $15m

Posted by admin Delta, General Politics, Governors, State News, Top Stories Monday, August 13th, 2012

BY IKECHUKWU NOCHIRI ABUJA — The Delta State Government has gone before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to challenge moves by the Federal Government to claim the $15 million allegedly given to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, by the jailed former Governor of the State, Chief James Ibori, who left ofice […]

Ballot boxes: Jega, Iwu accused of irrregular contracts

Posted by admin INEC Politics, Latest Politics Monday, August 13th, 2012

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA—The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and its Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega are currently enmeshed in a fresh scandal over alleged sharp practices in the procurement process of the ballot boxes used during the 2011 general elections. The allegation against them was contained in a counter-affidavit that was deposed before the Abuja […]

Kogi: Fulani threaten to withdraw cattle from market

Posted by admin Headlines, Kogi, State News Monday, August 13th, 2012

By Boluwaji Obahopo LOKOJA—Kogi State chapter of Miyette Allahi Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, has threatened to withdraw its animals from the state markets over harassment and arrest of its members by the police. Chairman of the association, Alhaji Shuabu Idrisa, weekend, after a stakeholders meeting between Fulani Ardos and Miyette Allah cattle breeders […]

Put your house in order, Mark tells ACN

Posted by admin Action Congress of Nigeria, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) Monday, August 13th, 2012

Senate President David Mark has distanced himself from an alleged plot to remove the Senate Minority Leader, Sen. George Akume, from office. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, on Sunday in Abuja, Mark described the allegation as “crude and shocking’’. He advised the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) to […]

El-Rufai peddling falsehood – Okupe

Posted by admin Latest Politics Monday, August 13th, 2012

By Ben Agande ABUJA—The war of words between the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, and the former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, escalated Okupe, yesterday, said: “All the fallacies, deceits, misinformation and disinformation about incompetence and non-performance of the President Goodluck Jonathan’s admiration as […]

Ogoni: What manner of autonomy?

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Niger Delta, Rivers, State News Monday, August 13th, 2012

BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME A faction of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP makes a Unilateral Declaration of Independence from Nigeria. But does it change anything? OGONI, a leading oil-producing area of Rivers State has been quiet and calm after the August 2 declaration of self-government by the faction of the Movement for the […]

OLYMPICS: “No gold, no silver, no bronze, N2.3 bn down the drain”

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports, Track & Field Monday, August 13th, 2012

LAGOS—The story of Nigeria at the 2012 London Olympics is “No gold, no silver, no bronze, N2.3 billion down the drain.” And now a top Nigerian sports official who is a member of an international sports federation wants the federal government to compel the sports ministry to account for how they spent the N2.3 billion […]