President Goodluck Jonathan has forwarded the nomination of Justice Dahiru Musdapher as Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) to the Senate for confirmation. Senate President David Mark read the August 22 correspondence from the president to senators on resumption of plenary yesterday. President Jonathan noted that the nomination was in conformity with Section 231, Sub-section (1) […]
President Goodluck Jonathan has dissolved the Board of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator Anyim Pius Anyim announced the dissolution in a terse press statement issued late yesterday. According to Anyim, the President has also directed the Managing Director and other members of the Executive of the […]
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) said the comments made by President Goodluck Jonathan during his maiden media chat on Monday have shown that he is largely out of tune with the situation in Nigeria. In a statement issued in Lagos yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party described as superficial […]
Super Eagles’ Coach, Samson Siasia, has said his team would aim at beating Guinea 30 at home next month to qualify for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations in style. The senior national team needs to win 1-0 on October 8 in Abuja to finish top of Group B ahead of the Syli Stars and […]
Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) is determined to render support to the senior national team, the Super Eagles in its quest to destroy the might of Guinea in the last Nations Cup qualifier in Abuja next month. NFF bigwigs rose from their emergency meeting on Monday in Abuja and resolved to throw their full weight behind […]
Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday made a 10-minute appearance at the public hearing of the House of Representatives on the illegal concession agreement between her ministry and Single Window Systems and Technology Limited (SWST). The minister was on Monday threatened with an arrest if she failed to appear before the ad-hoc committee by […]
Stakeholders in Plateau State have expressed mixed feelings over the pronouncements by the Federal Government that security in Jos would be taken over by the military. According to reports some said it had been the old story which brought nothing concrete to improve the security situation in the state. Some saw it as a welcome […]
The Seventh Senate resumed yesterday in Abuja with the leadership setting the agenda for what to expect from the lawmakers of the upper legislative chamber just as the House of Representatives summoned security chiefs over terrorism. Welcoming the senators back to the chamber yesterday, Senate President David Mark listed amendments to the Constitution and Electoral […]
The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has given a blow-by-blow account of how the April 16 presidential election was rigged in favour of President Goodluck Jonathan and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In his evidence in chief at the presidential election tribunal, Acting National Secretary of the party,. Buba Galadima, an engineer, revealed how excess […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Monday raised an alarm over what it described as plots by some political parties to destabilise the country as well as impeach President Goodluck Jonathan. PDP was reacting to a news report that a secret plot aimed at instigating the impeachment of President Jonathan through opposition members of the National […]
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