BY Taye Obateru Jos—An appeal has gone to President Goodluck Jonathan to ignore calls to sack the Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah, unless her culpability in the bullet proof cars saga was established. A group, the Igbo Democratic Forum, made the appeal in a statement in Jos, signed by its Chairman, Chief Chidi Ndu, […]
Ex-CSO: His letter fictitious From DESMOND MGBOH, Kano Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, the former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, has described as fictitious the insinuation of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in his recent letter to President Goodluck Jonathan. The former president wrote that Jonathan has allegedly hired 1,000 […]
Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer to late Head-of-State, Gen. Sani Abacha, has challenged ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, to a public debate on any issue concerning Nigeria. Al-Mustapha threw the challenge in an interview with the Hausa Service of the Voice of America, monitored in Abuja, on Wednesday. The former CSO was reacting to news […]
No fewer than 70 persons, including 15 soldiers, died in the military operations to track down the insurgents who carried out the last Friday’s pre-dawn attacks on Mohammed Kur Barracks in Bama, Borno State. The remaining 55 comprised of 50 insurgents and five villagers. The Director of Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Chris Olukolade, who made this […]
By Saharareporters, New York It has been revealed that Nigeria’s First Lady, Patience Jonathan, sought and received import waivers that she then turned over to Coscharis Motors, a private car dealer, to import 200 BMW cars in 2012. Figures released by Nigeria’s Ministry of Finance budget office show that Mrs. Jonathan secured the import waivers […]
Ours is a pseudo-democracy BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE, Deputy political editor LEADING human rights crusader and former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Dr Olisa Agbakoba (SAN) spoke to Vanguard on the structure of Nigeria as a country, the worthiness of the forthcoming centenary celebrations, the crusade against graft among other issues. Excerpts: On Speaker […]
FG overspends by N740bn BY Babajide Komolafe The three tiers of government shared N6 trillion from January to September from the federation account, while the federal government overspent its budget by N740 billion within the same period. These were revealed in the Economic report for the first three quarters of the year released by the […]
A letter dated September 25, 2013 written by the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Lamido Sanusi, to President Goodluck Jonathan was recently leaked to the media from undisclosed sources. In an apparent streak of patriotic fervour, Sanusi noted in his letter that, “I am constrained to formally write your Excellency, documenting serious concerns of […]
IN a wrong-headed move, the House of Representatives has initiated the process to legalise the operation of foreign bank accounts by public officers. Despite public misgivings about it, a bill to this effect scaled through the second reading on November 19. One of its sponsors, Bamidele Faparusi, argued that the current law is “weak and […]
LAGOS (AFP) – Amnesty International on Friday urged Nigeria’s president to reject a bill that would outlaw gay marriage and crackdown on gay rights after lawmakers approved a final version for his signature.The key elements of Nigeria’s anti-homosexuality legislation, which also criminalises public displays of affection between same sex couples, had cleared the upper and […]
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