ALL the 37 cabinet nominees sent to the Lagos State House of Assembly by Governor, Babatunde Fashola, have scaled through the screening process and had their nominations confirmed. The Speaker, Mr. Ikuforiji Adeyemi, said that 21 of them would be Commissioners while 16 would be Special Advisers. The exercise, which lasted three […]
No, He Was Arrested – Aide THE State Security Service (SSS) yesterday faulted reports of alleged arrest of former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, saying that he was merely invited to explain the “distorted” figures he published in a national newspaper regarding public expenditure. El-Rufai had, in an article […]
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TWELVE returnee Ministers and two new ministerial appointees, yesterday, took the oath of office and allegiance before President Goodluck Jonathan at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa Abuja, with the President directing the 12 returnees to return back to the Ministries they superintended before the dissolution of the cabinet on May 29. The ministers […]
Quite a few readers of the first part of this article wondered why I failed to include what it costs the federation to pay the salaries and allowances of lawmakers in the state and federal legislatures. My response to the enquiries is that except there is absolute clarity on how much the legislators are paid, […]
By the end of the amnesty proclaimed for Niger Delta militants on October 4, 2009, virtually all the known leaders had surrendered their camps to the federal government along with 287,455 different types of ammunitions, 2760 assorted weapons, 18 gunboats, 1090 dynamites and 3155 magazines. But there remained the issue of redressing the problem of […]
Dele Momodu : dele.momodu@thisdaylive.com Dear Mr President, I’m pleased to write you again through this medium. Thanks for responding quickly to some of the suggestions I gave in my recent letters to you. Even if I and many of my readers had serious doubts about your ability to take on the hawks in your political […]
Former International Monetary Fund chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released from house arrest Friday after prosecutors said the hotel maid who accused him of attempted rape lied to a grand jury and made other false statements. Strauss-Kahn, 62, still faces charges that he sexually assaulted the woman in New York but questions about her credibility appear […]
The Kano High Court in Gaya, a town some 70 kilometres South of Kano city, was full of life on Wednesday, June 16. The court was hosting a cream of Igbo personalities, including associates and aides and counsel of two Kano-crowned, Igbo monarchs, Nze John Chiejina Nnaji and Chief Boniface Ibekwe, both locked in a […]
More than five months after the face-off between the Anambra State government and its judiciary workers, the state has assured that the striking workers should prepare for resumption of duty. Addressing journalists after commissioning the new High Court in Nnewi, the Anambra State governor, represented by his deputy, Mr. Emeka Sibeudu, stated that the state […]
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