Preparations for 2011 general elections started yesterday on a scary note in Ogun State as a presidential campaign bus of President Goodluck Jonathan allocated for the state was allegedly seized with some arms and ammunition. The bus, said to have been allocated to the Government Liaison Officer in Ijebu North Local Government, was as at […]
There was pandemonium on Wednesday at a section of Mile 4 axis of Port Harcourt, as a housewife gave birth to two padlocks. The strange twin objects were delivered in the early hours of the day. Although facts of the unusual delivery remained sketchy as at press time, it was gathered that the ‘mother’ and […]
President of Human Rights, Justice and Peace Foundation, Chidi Nwosu, was killed by gunmen in the early hours of Wednesday. A family source informed Thetimesofnigeria.com that Nwosu was trailed to his house in Abia State by armed men around 1am and shot dead. His wife and 5 year-old daughter were locked up in the […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission is seeking an additional N45.39bn for capital and recurrent expenditure in 2011. This amount is contained in the 2011 budget forwarded by President Goodluck Jonathan to the National Assembly for approval. Earlier, the commission had received N87bn for the purchase of Direct Data Capturing Machines for voter registration and related […]
A 25-year-old National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Miss Bere Basiri, was on Wednesday arraigned before an Abeokuta Chief Magistrate’s court for allegedly abandoning her 14-day-old baby. The police prosecutor, Mr Paul Etusi, had told the court that the the accused, who is doing her primary assignment with the Osun State government, delivered the baby […]
THE Deputy High Commissioner of Pakistan, Ahmed Sirohey, in Abuja, on Wednesday, said if Nigeria was able to manage its resources properly, it has the potential of being Africa’s economic power by 2030. This came just as he called for stronger bilateral ties between Nigeria and his country, noting that Pakistan was ready to help […]
A former governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, insisted that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was only dreaming about winning elections in Lagos, Ogun and Oyo States,declaring that Nigerians were tired of a ‘poverty party.” In a chat with airport journalists at the Presidential wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, […]
Given the momentum of classic drama that characterize most events in Nigeria this year, there will be no shortage of stories that will shape the outgoing year. Many of the stories are, indeed, as different and remarkable as the individuals themselves, their pain behind their fame, the scent behind their successes and failings. It is […]
SINce the advent of democracy in 1999, some National Assembly members have continued to win elections to represent their constituencies, either at the Senate or at the House of Representatives. At the last count, almost a dozen of these federal lawmakers still bestride their districts like colossus. From the Senate President, David Bonaventure Mark, to […]
The recent attempt by federal lawmakers to gatecrash themselves National Executive Committee (NEC) of political parties has exposed the long-running cold war between the National Assembly and the Nigerian Governors’ Forum. Kunle Akogun reports A subtle but very intense struggle for the control of the soul of the nation’s polity is currently raging between two […]
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