HE was last seen leading the group of seven aggrieved governors out of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) mini-convention on August 31, 2013. Later he was heard explaining how he and those stakeholders plotted to decapitate PDP. Shortly after he was also heard admonishing certain leaders to whom his former boss and ex-President Olusegun […]
THE Nigerian/Chinese tie has gone a step deeper, as Nigerian diplomats and senior government officials get visa exception with effect from February 1. The announcement was made yesterday. The outgoing Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Deng Boqing, made the disclosure at the Nigeria-China Business Roundtable and Luncheon in Lagos, which was organised by the Nigerian Institute […]
Less than five days before the Senate receives the ministerial list, there are strong indications that President Goodluck Jonathan will make sweeping changes in the federal cabinet. In the impending cabinet shake-up that will affect even special advisers and some influential presidential aides, not more than four ministers are likely to survive what an impeccable […]
President Goodluck Jonathan President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday paid a discreet and surprise visit to Lagos State, where he held meetings with some key groups and personalities. The meetings lasted for about seven hours, SUNDAY PUNCH learnt. Security operatives at the Murtala Muhammed Internationa Airport, Lagos, said Jonathan arrived at the President Wing of […]
The House of Representatives Committee on Finance on Saturday said the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was taking Nigerians for granted. The committee said this in a statement by its clerk, Farouk Mustapha, in response to comments credited to Okonjo-Iweala in some newspapers. Okonjo-Iweala reportedly said she […]
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, […]
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