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Latest Politics
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
Senate President David Mark has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to fulfill all promises made concerning full implementation of the 2012 budget. Mark said this during his opening address to the joint session of the National Assembly on the presentation of the 2012 budget proposals by the President yesterday. The Senate President bemoaned past promises made […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
-Sun A tenant, who allegedly killed his landlord in Ogijo area of Ogun State has been arrested by the state Police Command. He was said to have killed Afolabi Olayinka, 73 after being allegedly hit with a club. Parading the suspect yesterday, the Ogun State Police Commissioner, Mr. Nicholas Nkemdeme, said the murder suspect […]
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Edo, Latest Politics, Presidency, State News, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (2007-10)
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
-Sun The Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole yesterday disclosed to the shock of the crowd gathered for the launch of the ‘Power, Politics and Death’, by the former Special Adviser on Media and Communications to Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi, that the late president generously supported his guber race with financial donations. […]
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Headlines, Oyo, State News
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
The trial of the former Governor of Oyo State, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala and two others being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) over allegations bothering on corruption, resumed yesterday before Justice Akintunde Boade of the Oyo State High Court. Akala, his former Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters and now a […]
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House, Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
The Three Arms Zone comprising the Presidency, Supreme Court and Court of Appeal Headquarters of the National Assembly was in a security lockdown ahead of President Goodluck Jonathan’s presentation of the N4.8 trillion budget yesterday. Right from the Power House Axis from the Asokoro District, down to the Police Force Headquarters in Area 11, and […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
Apparently worried over the menace of the Islamist sect, Boko Haram, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the 19 northern states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has advocated that Nigeria should split. Addressing a press conference yesterday, the Secretary General of the Northern (CAN), Elder Saidu Dogo, said the division of the country […]
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Abia, Legislature, Senate, State News
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
The tenure of Senator Nkechi Nwaogu representing Abia State Central Senatorial zone was yesterday brought to an abrupt end as the Court of Appeal nullified her election. In a unanimous judgment delivered by Justice Ejembi Eko, the appellate court held that Osisioma Ngwa Local Government Area, where Nwaogu hails from did not fall within Abia […]
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Elections 2011, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA – The Supreme Court, yesterday, fixed December 28 to deliver its judgment on an appeal lodged before it by the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, seeking to sack President Goodluck Jonathan from office. Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Dahiru Musdapher, who led six other justices of the apex court that presided […]
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Budget, House, Legislature, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Senate
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
*The budget must challenge us— Mark *It’s budget of transformation— PDP By Henry Umoru, Clara Nwachukwu& Emman Ovuakporie ABUJA- SENATE President David Mark yesterday warned that as a nation, we must all be challenged by the 2012 budget proposals if the desired results must be achieved, just as he described the implementation of past budgets […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police, Ogun, State News
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
By GBENGA ARIYIBI ABEOKUTA – Ogun State police command yesterday paraded 17 suspected armed robbers including six members of the armed robbery gang that allegedly struck banks along Akarigbo road Sabo, Sagamu in the state last month. The state police Commissioner,Nicholas Nkedeme, told newsmen in Abeokuta that, his men have apprehended six members of the […]