Minister of Aviation, Mrs. Stella Oduah | credits: File copy The Federal Government on Wednesday lifted the suspension of the operating licence of Dana Airlines. The government had on June 5, 2012 suspended the airline from operating its normal services two days after its Boeing McDonnell 83 plane crashed in Iju area of Lagos, […]
Nine years after the $214m National Identity Card scam involving top government officials and politicians blew open, a court in Paris, France on Wednesday imposed a $600,000 (N94.2m) fine on a French firm, Safran, for bribing public officials in Nigeria. Reuters reported that investigating magistrates found that the bribes which were offered between 2000 and […]
e Minister of Foreign Affairs, Olugbenga Ashiru, has summoned the Canadian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Chris Cooter, to his office to register the government’s displeasure over the shabby treatment given to Nigerian visa applicants. The summons was made public in a statement by the ministry’s spokesperson, Mr. Ogbole Ahmedu-Ode, in Abuja, on Friday. According to […]
BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE, SONI DANIEL & HENRY UMORU …We agree with S-West on six regions — Ohanaeze scribe LAGOS—NORTHERN leaders, Sunday, spurned Yoruba leaders’ agitation for regional autonomy and a return to the parliamentary system of government, describing the clamour as a recipe for Nigeria’s disintegration. Yoruba elders under the banner of Yoruba National Assembly, […]
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to replace ex-Minister of Power, Prof. Barth Nnaji, with another competent person from the South-East geopolitical zone. The group said Jonathan should abide by the Federal Character principle, which guides political appointments, to ensure that the number of the ministers from the […]
August 31, 2012 by Stanley Opara 3 Comments GMD, NNPC, Mr. Andrew Yakubu | credits: The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation needs close to $3bn (N474.15bn) to upgrade its depots and refineries’ pipeline infrastructure nationwide, its Group Managing Director, Mr. Andrew Yakubu, has said. The GMD said this on Thursday during a forum in Lagos. In […]
Ekpeyong Ita, the Director-General of the State Security Services (SSS) | credits: THERE are indications that the safety of agents of the State Security Service has been compromised with personnel records of current and former operatives leaked on the internet, Associated Press reports. The leak, sources said, was already creating panic among SSS operatives and […]
“Appointing a man who forged his academic certificates as Chancellor of a university will further debase the academic integrity of the country’s universities.” This is how the PDP South-West reacted to the appointment of former Governor of Lagos State and Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the Chancellor of the Ladoke […]
President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, ordered power minister Prof Barth Nnaji, to resign following an alleged involvement of two companies linked to him in the ongoing privatisation exercise in the power sector. LEADERSHIP gathered that the president might have been embarrassed by media reports that the National Council on Privatisation (NCP) had to cancel the technical […]
United States President Barack Obama has declared Nigeria as the world’s next economic success story, stressing that this was one of the major reasons why his government was committed to helping the country build strong democratic institutions and remove constraints to trade and investment through the African Growth and Opportunity Act. Making this declaration at […]
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