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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
There was pandemonium in Omi-Adio community in Ido Local Government Area of Oyo State yesterday after a mobile policeman allegedly shot a driver for refusing to give N20 bribe. The victim, identified simply as Aminu Mudashiru, who was said to have been wounded by the police bullet was immediately rushed to a private hospital in […]
• Baba Gana Photo: THE SUN PUBLISHING More Stories on This Section Talking about grassroots politics in Yobe State, Zanna Baba Gana remains a major. The fearless and outspoken politician is a factor as far as political activities especially in Bursari local government area are concerned. Having served as local council secretary, councilor for five […]
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