The Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has said that recurrent expenditure in next year’s budget is to be reduced from 74 to 72 per cent. Okonjo- Iweala made the disclosure at a forum organised by ThisDay Newspapers at the ongoing annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in […]
UNITED NATIONS – (AFP) – Israel said Friday it regrets that Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has handed over a request to the United Nations to admit Palestine as a full member state. “We regret the step,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesman Gidi Shmerling told AFP. “We believe that the only path to true peace is […]
LUSAKA, (AFP) – Zambia’s new President Michael Sata took office Friday, kicking off with a pledge to crack down on the rampant corruption that turned voters away from his predecessor. Sata, who five years ago threatened to chase the Chinese out of the country, said after his swearing-in that he welcomed all investors but wanted […]
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – The Palestinian bid for UN membership will be “quickly” handled and sent to the UN Security Council, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said. Speaking after Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas met UN leader Ban Ki-moon, the spokesman said: “The appropriate procedural reviews will be quickly undertaken in the secretariat and afterwards will be […]
Mr Joseph Daudu (SAN), the President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), has called for urgent resolution of the raging crises in some parts of the country to save its fledgling democracy. Daudu made the call in Benin on Friday in a paper entitled “Danger Signals to Nigeria’s Democracy”, which he delivered at the ongoing […]
Following threats by Islamic sect, Boko Haram to attack Lagos, Delta, Anambra and other cities in the southern part of the country, a nation wide security alert was put in place yesterday especially in Lagos, Asaba and Jos. The sect, according to new intelligence reports available to the Armed Forces, had also perfected plans to […]
Few hours to the Kogi state governorship Peoples Democratic Party’s primary held in Lokoja township stadium yesterday, prominent aspirants in the race to Lugard House told journalists they were withdrawing from the race owing to what they alleged as government hijacking of the delegates. Addressing newsmen in his residence, one of the leading aspirant,Adinoyi –Ojo […]
Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, General Overseer, popularly called Daddy GO, the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), rarely talks about himself. He did that recently at the Redeemed Camp, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, when he spoke about “powerfu mediocres” in our midst. He used a part of his life story to illustrate the danger of having “powerful […]
People wailed and rolled on the floor at the residence of a retired Brigadier-General who was brutally killed in his living room in Lagos, on Tuesday. His wife, who was also attacked was said to be in a critical condition at the Badagry General Hospital. Brigadier General Umai Jabil Uwurigbe (retd) was killed at about […]
Suspected bandits have killed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Youth Leader in Zamfara State, Alhaji Samaila Zakariya. The PDP youth leader met his untimely death in the early hours of yesterday few kilometres to Funtua, Katsina State on his way to Kaduna, when people suspected to be hired assassins opened fire on his vehicle. The […]
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