A Permanent Secretary in the Taraba State Ministry of Finance, Asabe Maiangwa, has told a High Court in the Federal Capital Territory sitting in Abuja, how N450 million was paid by the state government to several persons to supply stationery and office equipment. The permanent secretary said out of the N450 million only N16 million […]
Governor Abdul’aziz Yari Abubakar of Zamfara State is at loggerheads with his predecessor, Alhaji Aliyu Shinkafi. Yari lamented that he inherited a whopping N42billion debt without any handover note. Shinkafi, however, insisted few days before he left office that he left substantial amount of money that would finish all ongoing important capital projects in the […]
The Nigerian Army has started local construction of gunboats for use by its amphibious unit, thereby saving the country money. The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Onyeabor Azubuike Ihejirika said hitherto, N300million was used to service 10 boats for the unit, an amount which he said was high. He said this N300million was being […]
Former Borno State Governor, Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff, has denied a claim credited to former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) General Jeremiah Oseni (retd) that he was the brain behind the creation of the Islamic fundamentalist, Boko Haram. The group, he said, had been in existence before he got into office in 2003. […]
From daring Boko Haram came a threat yesterday that the Islamic militants have listed the Presidential Villa, Abuja as target. Their spokesman, Mallam Abu Zaid, who spoke to journalists on phone in Maiduguri, Borno State yesterday, also called for the removal of troops of the Joint Task Force (JTF) troops from the state, maintaining that […]
By Prince Charles Dickson, Jos, Nigeria – July 14, 2011 – On an average Nigeria is good nation , her people are a bunch of like a Banana bunch, a few rotten ones, will always give the whole bunch a bad look and that particular rotten smell. Except in our case the numbers of the […]
By Anthony A. Kila, Cambridge, UK, – July 14, 2011 – Up until not too long ago, everybody we knew was Anglican, Catholic or something similar to that. The clergymen were then known by titles such as canon, reverend, father and vicar. They were known for their robes, collar and demeanor; they were not necessarily […]
A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, on Thursday, dismissed the suit filed by a former deputy governor of Lagos State, Mr Femi Pedro, against the state House of Assembly and state government. Pedro had filed the case in 2007, to ask the court to make an order declaring his impeachment as deputy governor of […]
TEN persons were reportedly killed, on Thursday, in Kona village near Jalingo, the Taraba State capital, following a land dispute between the people of Mumuye and Kona. Following the development, the state government has set up machinery to identify the culprits and the cause of the crisis with the aim of bringing them to book. […]
The House of Representatives, on Thursday, rejected a motion that sought to probe pending reports of various panels and commissions of inquiry set up by the Federal Government over the years on major socio-political and economic crises in the country with no white paper issued on such reports as members unanimously voted against it. Honourable […]
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