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Presidency Denies Receiving N3bn Donation

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Headlines, Presidency Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Political Matters, Dr. Akilu Indabawa, has denied as fabrications aimed at ridiculing his principal the reported donation of N500 million each by six governors. The lie in the publication, he claimed, stemmed from the report that he wrote a letter acknowledging receipt of the donations, insisting that no […]

Hard Drug: Four Governorship, Two Senatorial Aspirants Battle NDLEA

Posted by admin Governors, Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

Four governorship aspirants and two senatorial hopefuls are presently in the battle of their lives to disentangle themselves from the black-list of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), without which, they may not be able to contest this year’s general election. A top NDLEA operative who confided in LEADERSHIP at the weekend in Lagos, […]

Presidency debunks Atiku’s claims on economy

Posted by admin Headlines, Presidency Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

THE Presidency yesterday reacted to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s characterization of the Nigerian economy as sick and bankrupt, describing him as “desperate and ignorant of the workings of the economy.” In a response to the letter he wrote to President Goodluck Jonathan on the 2011 budget, a top presidential aide said yesterday: “Atiku has […]

Nigeria, Italy to check money laundering, others

Posted by admin Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

THE Italian government is collaborating with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in a move to check drug syndicates, money laundering and crime. The NDLEA said the plan would help to check drug syndicates seeking to operate in the country and within the sub-region. Dr. Pietro Grasso, Chief Prosecutor of the Italian Anti-Mafia Bureau, […]

FG to deploy CCTVs in public places

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

The Federal Government on Monday resolved to introduce security measures in a bid to check the rising incidents of bomb blasts in the country. Among the measures taken at the end of an emergency National Security Council meeting in Abuja was the deployment of closed-circuit televisions in public places or establishments to monitor movements into […]

Student excretes 68 wraps of hard drugs

Posted by admin Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Monday, January 3rd, 2011

A final year student of Anambra State University, Igbiaram, has been saved from a possible execution in Malayisa, following his arrest by operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. The suspect (names withheld) was intercepted during routine screening of passengers on Emirate flight to Malayisa, at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport with over 68 […]

INEC rules out registration of more parties

Posted by admin Headlines, INEC Politics Monday, January 3rd, 2011

The Chairman Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, has said there will be no registration of more political parties for now. Jega stated this at a News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum on Monday in Abuja, that the commission had received two more applications for registration of parties, but said they came too […]

Eleweomo’s murder: Senate leader arrested

Posted by admin Headlines, Legislature, Senate Monday, January 3rd, 2011

Senate Leader, Senator Teslim Folarin was yesterday interrogated for hours at the Oyo State Police Command, Eleyele and detained, in connection with the last Thursday’s killing of the factional leader of the Oyo State chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Alhaji Lateef Salako (a.k.a Eleweomo). The embattled Senate leader breezed into […]

The President is Threatened By a Fraying Amnesty

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta Monday, January 3rd, 2011

AT A disused military compound in Obubra, north of Nigeria’s south-eastern city of Calabar, hundreds of men in white baseball caps emblazoned with the word amnesty are taking an unusual exam. They are being tested on peace and love. If you dey [are] together for one place and you get food to eat, you must […]

Greed, bane of our development – Jonathan

Posted by admin Headlines, Presidency Sunday, January 2nd, 2011

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday fingered greed and the desire to accumulate monies that were not needful, rather than of lack of professionals in key positions, as the problem militating against Nigeria’s development. Speaking at the first new year service at the Trinity Catholic Church, Maitama, Abuja, Jonathan also described terrorism as a global trend which […]