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Post-amnesty: Ex-militants protest again

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

A break-away faction of the Third Phase ex-militants from the Niger Delta again on Monday staged a protest at the East/ West Road Yenagoa, causing traffic gridlock for hours. The ex-militants who said they were protesting non-inclusion in the post amnesty programme set ablaze a circulation van with plate number XR 264 LND belonging to […]

Fuel subsidy: Senate summons Okonjo-Iweala, Allison-Madueke, others

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Oil Politics, Women Politics Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

The debate on the removal of fuel subsidy gathered momentum yesterday as the Senate Joint Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream), Appropriations and Finance formally summoned Ministers of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke and Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, to appear before it. The issue has […]

We’ll produce Baba Suwe in court today – NDLEA

Posted by admin Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has expressed its readiness to bring comedian and actor, Babatunde Omidina popularly known as Baba Suwe to court today. Baba Suwe had been in NDLEA’s detention since October 12, 2011 over alleged possession of cocaine in his system, though […]

Okorocha begins payment of stipend to school children

Posted by admin Headlines, Imo, State News Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Anayo Okorocha, has commenced the payment of monthly stipend to primary and secondary schools students. The payment takes off simultaneously in each of the 27 local government areas today November 1, 2011). While primary school pupils receive N100, their secondary school counterparts will get N120. Also, primary school monitors will […]

Ndigbo to pray for Ojukwu on Friday

Posted by admin Headlines, South-East Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

The leader of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike has urged the Igbos both at home and in the diaspora to stop whatever they are doing on Friday November 4 to pray for the quick recovery of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu as a special gift for his 78th […]

Presidential polls: Jonathan, PDP lose at Supreme Court

Posted by admin Elections 2011, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Judiciary, Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

The Supreme Court yesterday struck out the twin interlocutory appeals filed by President Goodluck Jonathan and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against the decision of the Presidential Election Tribunal, which allowed the filing of the petition challenging the outcome of the presidential election by the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) on Sunday May 8, 2011. […]

Ex Taraba Gov., Rev. Nyame Paid N450 million for a N16 million Contract

Posted by admin National Politics, State News, Taraba, Top Stories Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

A Permanent Secretary in the Taraba State Ministry of Finance, Asabe Maiangwa, on Monday told an Abuja High Court that she complained to the then Taraba state Governor, Rev Jolly Nyame, about the way the state government disbursed various sums of money to contractors for jobs not done. At the resumed hearing of the case […]

Jigawa celebrates success in WAEC exams

Posted by admin Headlines, Jigawa, State News Monday, October 31st, 2011

BY ALIYU DANGIDA DUTSE—Jigawa State is celebrating what it described as the enormous success recorded in the education sector as 10.5 per cent of its secondary students passed the 2010 West African Examinations Council, WAEC, results in the country. In the previous year, only 2.4 per cent of the students passed same examination. In an […]

Reps probe PTDF, DPR, others

Posted by admin House, Legislature Monday, October 31st, 2011

THE House of Representatives has set machinery in motion for monitoring the finances and expenditure profiles of all the regulatory agencies in the petroleum industry in Nigeria. The new move by the House is aimed at curbing unlawful spending by the agencies through phoney contract awards, while limiting the expenses of the agencies to those approved […]

Presidency, PDP leaders at war •Over choice of Jonathan’s political adviser

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Presidency Monday, October 31st, 2011

MEMBERS of the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and some members of the Jonathan/Sambo campaign organisation are currently battling the presidency, over the choice of the new special adviser (political) to President Goodluck Jonathan, whose appointment would be announced any moment from now. It was gathered that the initial moves to […]