A Federal Capital Territory High Court presided over by Justice Sadiq Abubakar Umar yesterday, turned down an application filed by a former Minister of the FCT, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai and two others to quash the charges of misconduct and abuse of office filed against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. In his […]
NOTWITHSTAN-DING the rejection of the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) by state governors, the Federal Government, on Tuesday, went ahead with its implementation by launching it with $1billion (about N160 billion). The Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, made the disclosure at a press conference held to inform the […]
The chairman of the Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), Comrade Mashud Erubami, said on Tuesday that Nigerians would resist the proposed removal of oil subsidy despite the insistence of President Goodluck Jonathan. The civil society activist, in a statement in Ibadan, said that the proposed step by the Federal Government, which has grave consequences for Nigerians, had […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Lafia, Nasarawa State, has remanded in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the immediate past governor of the state, Aliyu Akwe-Doma, and eight others arraigned over an alleged N15 billion fraud. The commission charged them with alleged money laundering and their bail application would be […]
THE meeting of the Heads of States of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), convened on Tuesday by President Goodluck Jonathan at the Nnamdi International Airport, Abuja, failed to agree on who becomes the next president of ECOWAS Commission. It is the second time in recent time that the meeting would be deadlocked, having earlier […]
The Niger State police command, has said that it is battle-ready to guarantee an hitch-free visit of President Goodluck Jonathan to the state on Thursday, and that no fewer than 50 per cent of its 11,000 workforce has already been assigned the duties of the provision of security for the presidential visit. And to further demonstrate […]
Some National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members in the Niger Delta are fleeing the region following the threat by a militant group, Egbesu Mightier Fraternity, to bomb mosques in the region within seven days in retaliation for the series of explosion in the North by the Boko Haram sect. Nigerian Tribune gathered on Tuesday that while some […]
THE popular Yoruba actor, Babatunde Omidina, also known as Baba Suwe, has made his third excretion but still without any hard drug found. Baba Suwe, who is spending his ninth day in the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) was arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on his way to Paris, France, […]
THE founder of the Living Faith Church, also known as Winners’ Chapel International, Bishop David Oyedepo, has berated Nigerian leaders over government’s insincerity, saying that a revolution in the political arena will prevent the country from disintegration. Oyedepo said this at the launch of the United Nations-Global Report on Human Settlements held at the Africa Leadership Development […]
Penultimate Tuesday, Senate President David Mark concluded inauguration of 55 committees, save for the Selection Committee which is automatically constituted with the composition of the Body of Principal Officers. It was a no mean feat for the Senate President who ensured that he personally inaugurated each committee, quite unlike in the Sixth Senate when he […]
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