President Goodluck Jonathan The Federal Government on Sunday finally released the result of the rebased Gross Domestic Product for the country, which showed that the Nigerian economy had overtaken South Africa’s as the biggest on the continent. The Statistician General of the Federation and Chief Executive Officer, National Bureau of Statistics, Dr. Yemi Kale, […]
Prominent Christians in the country’s biggest opposition party, All Progressives Congress, are threatening to quit the party over an alleged plan to field a Muslim/Muslim presidential ticket. There has been speculation in recent times that power brokers in the party have concluded plans to present a Muslim/Muslim ticket for the 2015 presidential election. But Sunday […]
Nigerians saw how it all happened. They saw how people waved President Goodluck Jonathan’s pictures before TV cameras in the Saharawi Republic. The entire event could have been mistaken for a rally, one of those political party rallies in Nigeria where female attendees traditionally create their own planet, singing praises and painting the venue green, […]
Some delegates participating in the ongoing National Conference were on Thursday in Abuja divided over the feeding arrangement by the leadership of the confab. While some of them expressed disappointment about the poor quality of food, others said they wanted the food to be monetised to enable them to source for food outside the conference […]
A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the Federal Government, the State Security Service and the police to immediately release the passport of the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Lamido Sanusi. The court, in a judgment it delivered on Thursday, also directed the respondents, including the police, to pay N50m […]
The unofficial-official position of President Goodluck Jonathan’s government on women can be summarised thus: Thirty-three-one-thirds. This figure reflects the size of the national cake that should compulsorily be handed to women. It is reflected in the composition of Jonathan’s cabinet and that’s one of the few campaign promises he can boast he fulfilled. There is […]
Former minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday quizzed a former Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah, for over five hours at their Idiagbon House headquarters in Abuja. Investigation revealed that Oduah arrived at Idiagbon House around 10am and left at 3.30pm after being granted […]
Director of Defence Information, Brig. Gen. Chris Olukolade | credits: beegeagle.wordpress.com Camerounian security forces have seized a large cache of arms and ammunition from the suspected Boko Haram insurgents. The Director of Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Chris Olukolade, said in an electronic mail on Tuesday that the items seized by the Camerounian security forces included […]
A former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said the restructuring of the current federal arrangement in the country should be a major focus of delegates at the on-going national conference. Atiku said the Federal Government in the current arrangement was too powerful. In a speech delivered at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, on Tuesday, […]
A former Minister of Information, Prof. Dora Akunyili, on Tuesday, reappeared at the venue of the ongoing National Conference with a declaration that the confab was President Goodluck Jonathan’s most courageous act. In her contribution during the discussion on the inaugural speech of the President, Akunyili said the conference was Jonathan’s gift to the country. […]
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