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Legislature, Senate
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Senate yesterday estimated that Nigeria’s present external and local debts at N6.02 trillion, but said the country is not in any danger of going broke. Chairman, Committee on Local and Foreign Debts, Senator Ehigie Uzamere, disclosed this during the committee’s inauguration by Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu. Giving a breakdown of the debt profile, Uzamere […]
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Headlines
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Hell was let loose yesterday in Ihima, Okehi Local Government Area of Kogi State when dare devil robbers stormed a High Court, killed a prison official and set free a robbery suspect, Abdulrazak Nasiru who was standing trial in the court. An eyewitness told Daily Sun that the gunmen had hid in a nearby primary […]
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Headlines, State News
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
From the Senate came the gloomy news yesterday that the financial accounts of 27 states are in the red as some of them have been declared either “distressed” or “gloomy.” Only Abia, Akwa Ibom, Anambra and Jigawa states were given a clean bill of health. The six states that are in financial distress are: Kano, […]
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Articles, Columnists, Enugu, Governors, NNP Columnists, State News, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Thursday, October 27th, 2011

By Tochukwu Ezukanma, Lagos, Nigeria – October 27, 2011 – Over the years, I heard of Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka, especially, about his then long running conflict with Chimaroke Nnamani, the then governor of Enugu State. Lately, for the first time, I listened to a few of his CDs. They are usually a combination of […]
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Lagos, National Politics, Raw Politics, State News
Thursday, October 27th, 2011

ABUJA— Embattled former Governor of Lagos State and leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday, declined to either mount the dock or enter his plea to the 3-count criminal charge preferred against him before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja. The ex-governor who was charged by […]
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Latest Politics
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
ABUJA – The House of Representatives Committee on Pension, yesterday, heard that over 71,135 ghost pensioners were on the pay roll of Federal Government which cost the government over N28 billion annually. The Head of Service of the Federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Sali, told the committee, yesterday, that the report of the pension reform task force […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Dubai – Muammar Gaddafi’s fugitive son Saif al-Islam wants an aircraft to take him out of Libya’s southern desert so he could turn himself in to The Hague war crimes court, a source with Libya’s National Transitional Council said on Thursday. A fearful Saif al-Islam, 39, went on the run at about the time his […]
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Headlines
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
The Ogun State Police Command has paraded a 26-year-old man, Sola Oloyede, who allegedly shot himself in the scrotum, while attempting to bring out a locally-made pistol during a robbery operation. The state Commissioner of Police, Nicholas Nkemdeme, who paraded Oloyede along with other 24 suspects, onTuesday in Abeokuta, the state capital said the robbery […]
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Headlines, Plateau, State News
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja was yesterday, told that most of the cheques used to withdraw money from the account of Plateau State government during the less than six-month tenure of Michael Boatmang as governor, did not pass through the Cheque Movement Register, CMR, in the office of the Accountant –General. Also, an […]
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Constitution, Governors, House, Legislature, Senate
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Plans have reached an advanced stage by the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) to send a private member bill to the National Assembly (NASS) on Constitution Amendment. The Chairman of the Forum, Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State who dropped the hint in Abuja, Monday, ahead of the meeting of the body, however, declined to elaborate. […]