The Police Service Commission (PSC) yesterday announced the promotion of 35 deputy commissioners of police to the rank of commissioners. In the same vein, 46 assistant commissioners of police were also elevated to the rank of deputy commissioners of police, while 56 chief superintendents of police were promoted to assistant commissioners of police. Eighty-six superintendents […]
The Joint (Military) Task Force (JTF) on the Niger Delta yesterday arrested 11 suspected pipeline vandals including a native doctor along the creeks of the Delta with over 172,500 illegally refined petroleum products worth several millions of naira. The suspects were arrested in two wooden boats popularly called “Pekpekpe” along the Igbomaturu creek in Southern […]
Afresh legal challenge to the aspiration of President Goodluck Jonathan began yesterday in Abuja as some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftains filed a suit seeking to stop the Independent National Electoral Commis-sion (INEC) from accepting the president as a candidate for the 2011 presidential poll. The plaintiffs – Ambassador Yahaya Kwande, Hon. Dubem Onyia and […]
Immediate past Minister of Information and Communications and All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) senatorial aspirant, Prof. Dora Akunyili yesterday got the nods of traditional institutions and local government officials of her party for her senatorial ambition. Akunyili, who visited five out of the seven local governments making up her Anambra Central Senatorial District where she […]
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega yesterday raised the fear of electoral insecurity as the commission prepares for the crucial stage of voter registration next year. He stressed the need to take urgent steps to put saboteurs in check ahead of the elections. In a swift follow-up. the National Security […]
Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Canada, Professor Iorwuse Hagher has pledged to sponsor two staff of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria to Canada to study complex lighting systems. Professor Hagher, an alumnus and several years lecturer in the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria made the pledge during a courtesy call on the Vice Chancellor of the university, […]
Barely a week after former minister of information and communications, Professor Dora Akunyili, quit the federal cabinet, there are strong indication last night that morer ministers may quit. President Goodluck Jonathan and Vice President Namadi Sambo are already touring the geo-political zones seeking delegates’ endorsements ahead of the 2011 presidential primaries of the People Democratic […]
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described as a pipe dream and an unnecessary dissipation of energy President Goodluck Jonathan’s exhortation to his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to win Lagos in the 2011 general elections. In a statement issued in Benin on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the […]
By Odimegwu Onwumere – NNP, Nov. 24, 2010 It is very sad that some public office holders in Nigeria can do anything to stay in office. This is what we have observed the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Information and Strategy is doing. Nathan Egba blatantly said in an interview of Sunday Sun November 7, 2010, […]
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe – London, UK – Nov 24, 2010 The recent report that the Nigerian government has cautioned the African Union, (AU), not to interfere in its internal matters, following calls by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on the continental body to prevail on the Federal Government to prosecute perpetrators of the recent […]
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