Former President Olusegun Obasanjo The moves by the Presidency and the Peoples Democratic to seek the support of former President Olusegun Obasanjo for President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 have reached a dead end. The PUNCH’s investigations in Abuja on Sunday showed that Jonathan and the PDP had been reaching out to Obasanjo since last December […]
A former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, is not perturbed by reports that he and other prominent Nigerians have had their movements restricted by security agents. A close aide of the general, Mr. Rotimi Fashakin, said this in a telephone interview with our correspondent, in Abuja, on Thursday. He was reacting to a news […]
Barring any change in date, the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts will on April 28 commence public investigation into an alleged use of N10 billion for chartering of private jets by the Petroleum Resources Minister, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. The jet was allegedly chartered by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for the minister […]
The Deputy National Chairman (South) of All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator Annie Okonkwo has urged all true believers and patriots in the APC doctrine of change to work relentlessly to offer Nigerians a curative relief for the endemic internal political hypertension ravaging the country through the simple prescription of inclusive internal democracy. Senator Okonkwo, who […]
The All Progressives Congress has dismissed Nigeria’s rebased Gross Domestic Product as a public relations gimmick of the Federal Government. The party, in a statement in Washington DC, United States by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the Federal Government had by the rebased GDP only succeeded in ridiculing itself. But the […]
THE All Progressives Congress has asked President Goodluck Jonathan and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party to stay away from the Niger Delta region ahead of the 2015 general elections. The APC stated that the President and the PDP had no moral right to campaign for re-election in the Niger Delta due to their alleged neglect […]
It has no precedent in law – Defence counsel The confiscation hearing against the former governor of Delta state, Chief James Onanefe Ibori reopened yesterday at a London Crown Court with the British Crown prosecution lead counsel, Sasha Wass, calling for a full retrial of the entire case. Wass informed the court that the crown prosecution […]
The Federal Executive Council (FEC), presided by President Goodluck Jonathan has approved a fine of between N50,000 to six months imprisonment or both for individuals who smoke in areas not designated. The penalties for corporate offenders varied from N1million to N5million and one year to two years imprisonment for the chief executives of such firms. […]
Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro The Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro, on Sunday apologised to Nigerians over the recent botched Nigeria Immigration Service recruitment. He also asked families of the deceased and the injured applicants to forgive him. The News Agency of Nigeria recalled that the March 15 recruitment claimed the lives […]
Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Kenneth Minimah | credits: www.nigerreporters.com A soldier has claimed that he witnessed incidents that suggested some military chiefs work with Boko Haram insurgents in the North-East. The soldier told the Voice of America Hausa Service how his military unit in Borno State was ambushed by Boko Haram members. He […]
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