Jonathan and Sanusi The controversy surrounding the planned exit of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Lamido Sanusi, deepened on Thursday with the governor insisting that he would not quit the post until his term expired on June 2, 2014. In keeping with his vow, which analysts see as a direct confrontation […]
| credits: File copy Nigeria and the United Kingdom signed an agreement on Thursday on the exchange of prisoners between them. Under the agreement, high-profile prisoners like former Governor James Ibori of Delta State, and other Nigerians in the UK prisons will be transferred to Nigeria to complete their jail terms. The UK Minister […]
BY BABAJIDE KOMOLAFE The nation’s external reserves continued its downward trend as it fell by $301 million to $43.31 billion from $43.61 billion in the first six days of 2014. Meanwhile, the naira depreciated marginally by two kobo at the first foreign exchange auction conducted by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, this year. Data […]
E. K. Clark BY SONI DANIEL, CLIFFORD NDUJIHE, DAPO AKINREFON, CHARLES KUMOLU, JOHNBOSCO AGBAKWURU & LEVINUS NWABUGHIOGU The open letter of Elderstates man and Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, opened a can of worms in the polity. Eminent Nigerians who reacted to the 10-page letter expressed mixed feelings. […]
BY Innocent Anaba, Godwin Oritse, JIMITOTA ONOYUME, Abdulwahab Abdulah, JOHNBOSCO AGBAKWURU & CHRIS OCHAYI LAGOS—The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, yesterday, gave the Federal Government, through the National Security Adviser and the Inspector General of Police, a 30-day ultimatum to thoroughly investigate the bombing of the Rivers State High Court premises in Ahoada and Okehi. Similarly, […]
By Saharareporters, New York Stella Oduah, Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation who is embroiled in a scandal of towering proportions in the ministry, faces new integrity questions as her Masters’ degree has been challenged by the United States school which supposedly awarded it. Her resume, which she presented to the Senate as a ministerial nominee in […]
Coordinating Minister for the economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala | credits: File copy The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria on Thursday described as incorrect and unfortunate the statement credited to the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and the Accountant-General of the Federation, Mr. Jonah Otunla, that all federal workers […]
From Moshood Adebayo, Abeokuta The Chairman and spiritual father of the Cherubim and Seraphim Movement Church Worldwide (Ayo Ni O), Most Reverend Samuel Abidoye has cautioned President Goodluck Jonathan and former president Olusegun Obasanjo against heating up the polity through their actions and inactions. Abidoye, in his New Year message to members of the CSMS […]
FROM ISAAC ANUMIHE, ABUJA A mere letter by the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi to President Goodluck Jonathan, on September 25, 2013, alleging non-remittance of over $49.8 billion by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has generated a lot of controversy in the nation’s already fragile economy. For one, many […]
By Ben Agande, Michael Eboh & Kunle Kalejaye ABUJA — The Federal Government said, yesterday, that it had no plans to increase the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, popularly known as petrol from the prevailing pump price of N97 per litre, describing the growing fear of imminent price hike as unfounded. Equally, what […]
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