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External reserves have never reached $67bn – CBN gov

Posted by admin CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria), Latest Politics Wednesday, March 6th, 2013

THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mallam Lamido Sanusi, has said the highest the nation’s external reserves had ever attained was $62 billion during Musa Yar’ Adua administration and was never $67 billion as being currently speculated. Sanusi, who was the guest speaker at the Metropolitan Club Forum in Lagos on Tuesday, explained that […]

How northern governors split Boko Haram

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Governors, Latest Politics Tuesday, March 5th, 2013

BY Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor …C’ttee recommends amnesty, compensation LAGOS—The recent split in the ranks of the Islamist insurgent group, Boko Haram, leading to a division over a ceasefire, has been traced to a recent peace initiative spearheaded by the Northern States Governors Forum, NSGF. The peace offensive, which saw a delegation of the forum […]

Declare total amnesty for Boko Haram, Sultan tells Jonathan

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Latest Politics, National Politics, Sultan of Sokoto, Top Stories Tuesday, March 5th, 2013

By Luka Binniyat KADUNA — THE Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, yesterday, asked President Goodluck Jonathan to immediately grant amnesty to all members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, as a way of encouraging them to lay down their arms. Abubakar, who is also the President-General of Ja’matu Nasril Islam, JNI, the umbrella […]

Pro Amaechi’s governors threaten to dump PDP

Posted by admin Governors, Latest Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers, State News Saturday, March 2nd, 2013

Peoples Democratic Party governors sympathetic to the embattled Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, are threatening to leave the PDP, SUNDAY PUNCH has gathered. Reliable sources within the party told our correspondents on Friday that a few of the governors had intimated the party leadership with their disaffection and […]

FG urged to prosecute those that destroyed and murdered Odi residents

Posted by admin Bayelsa, Latest Politics, State News Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

BY Dotun Ibiwoye Access to Justice, a civil society group, has said that the perpetrators of the genocide committed against the people of Odi in Bayelsa State in 1999 should be brought to justice, in spite of the recent court judgment. It will be recalled that Justice Lambo Akanbi of a Federal High Court, Port […]

France won’t negotiate with Boko Haram

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, Latest Politics Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

France will not negotiate with Boko Haram gunmen who have taken a French family of seven hostage, the country’s Defence Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, said yesterday. The three adults and four children were kidnapped in Cameroon’s far north, near the Nigerian border in Borno State, last week. In a video posted online on Monday, the […]

Nigeria, others, fulfil 70 percent of troop pledge in Mali

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics Tuesday, February 26th, 2013

•Evidence of Boko Haram’s link with al-Qaeda found About 70 percent of troops pledged by Nigeria and others to the African-led International Support Mission in Mali (AFISMA) have been deployed, it was learnt yesterday. Foreign Minister of Côte d’Ivoire Charles Koffi Diby made the disclosure at the opening of an extraordinary meeting of the Mediation […]

Bill Clinton: Poverty fuels violence in the north

Posted by admin American Politics, Latest Politics Tuesday, February 26th, 2013

Former United States President Bill Clinton yesterday gave an insight into how Nigeria, given its abundant natural and human resources, can attain her full potential and bring development to the citizens. Clinton said Nigeria must strive to overcome her “three big challenges” – poor utilisation of oil money, bridging the widening gulf between the urban […]

Hurricane Mukthar: 3 judges to go

Posted by admin Judiciary, Latest Politics Monday, February 25th, 2013

ABUJA—There were indications, yesterday, that the National Judicial Council, NJC, was not yet done with the cleansing of the judiciary of bad eggs that have significantly tarnished the image of that tier of government. In what has now been termed “Hurricane Mukthar,” three more judges, alleged to have been implicated in corruption-tainted matters are said […]

Good Governance tour, a fraud – CDHR

Posted by admin Latest Politics Monday, February 25th, 2013

By LAJA THOMAS LAGOS—COMMITTEE for the Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, has said the ongoing “good governance tour” by the Federal Government is a fraud. Lagos State coordinator of the committee, Buna Isiak, in a statement said that what the Federal Government was doing by the tour was an aberration that should be condemned by […]