The National Economic Council (NEC) yesterday approved the sharing of $2 billion from the Excess Crude Account (ECA) among the three tiers of government. Briefing State House correspondents at the end of the 49th NEC meeting at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Akwa Ibom State Governor Godswill Akpabio said the Council received an […]
THERE may be no end yet to the criticisms trailing the recent presidential pardon granted the former Bayelsa State Governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha as Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and Niger Delta Civil Society Coalition (NDCSC) have faulted the pardon. But, former Abia State Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu and the Ijaw […]
THE planned arraignment of the alleged mastermind of the 2011 Christmas Day bombing of St. Theresa’s Catholic Church in Madala, Niger State, Mr. Kabiru Umar (alias Kabiru Sokoto) before the Federal High Court, Abuja Division, got stalled Wednesday owing to the absence of legal representation. Sokoto, who claimed not to understand English Language, spoke through […]
The Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described the state pardon granted a former governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, by President Goodluck Jonathan, as an act of impunity and a symbol of corrupt mentality. Also,the Nigerian Bar Association on Wednesday described the pardon as a bad signal in the anti-corruption campaign. Alamieyeseigha, who was […]
Christian Association of Nigeria on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to brand Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organisation CAN added that the attacks on Sabon-Gari, Kano, Gusau and the suspension of the only female Christian legislator in the Bauchi State House of Assembly for allegedly opposing the relocation of the headquarters of a local […]
I have observed with strong feelings of embarrassment, the degree to which people can be so enslaved by religion that they would go to great lengths to defend their religious views. People have been known to mutilate their bodies and engage in other forms of unseemly behaviour in the name of religion. Some members of […]
A pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, says a former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Col. Ahmadu Ali (retd.) is uncouth, ill-mannered and foul-mouthed. Ali’s criticism came on the heels of the interview he granted to a newspaper where he (Ali) carpeted the Yoruba for failing to “worship” Obasanjo, whom he described as the “god” of […]
Chairman, Ikeja branch of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Monday Ubani, and other activists, on Monday blamed the Kano park suicide bombing on the Federal Government. They said the government had demonstrated it was incompetent to tackle the nation’s insecurity problem. While Mr. Bamidele Aturu, urged the President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government to own up […]
United States richest man and philanthropist, Bill Gates, has cancelled his planned official visit to Nigeria scheduled for March 27. Gates’ action, it was believed was part of an unfolding diplomatic row between the US and Nigeria following the controversial pardon granted by President Goodluck Jonathan to ex-convicts Diepreye Alamieyeseigha and Shettima Bulama. He was […]
Nigeria has summoned United States Ambassador Terence McCulley over his comment on the Boko Haram insurgency. Minister of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru, who invited the Ambassador, discussed with him his comment, which the government said it was not comfortable with. But a government source said despite the interaction, there was no strain in the […]
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