Senior Special Adviser to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, on Tuesday described the call by the opposition Action Congress of Nigeria for his sacking over alleged fraud as hypocritical. In a statement by his Director of Media, Dr. Sanya Awosan, Okupe said to latch onto allegations published online against him and ignore […]
INVESTIGATIONS by The PUNCH have revealed that the Federal Government is in a dilemma about the probe of the Farouk Lawan-Femi Otedola $620,000 bribery scandal. The government, sources affirmed, had been undecided whether to prosecute only Lawan, the suspended chairman of the House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy, who had confessed to […]
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA — The Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, yesterday, said it has commenced the process of verifying personal assets of governors of the 36 states of the Federation and serving ministers. CCB Chairman, Mr Sam Saba, who made the declaration on a day the General Overseer and Founder of the Deeper Life […]
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA—The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and its Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega are currently enmeshed in a fresh scandal over alleged sharp practices in the procurement process of the ballot boxes used during the 2011 general elections. The allegation against them was contained in a counter-affidavit that was deposed before the Abuja […]
By Ben Agande ABUJA—The war of words between the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, and the former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, escalated Okupe, yesterday, said: “All the fallacies, deceits, misinformation and disinformation about incompetence and non-performance of the President Goodluck Jonathan’s admiration as […]
BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME A faction of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP makes a Unilateral Declaration of Independence from Nigeria. But does it change anything? OGONI, a leading oil-producing area of Rivers State has been quiet and calm after the August 2 declaration of self-government by the faction of the Movement for the […]
y Soni Daniel Kaduna-based activist, Shehu Sani, yesterday, warned Information Minister, Mr. Labaran Maku, to desist from blackmailing the North for his selfish interest. Similarly, the social critic lambasted the leader of Niger Delta Volunteer Force, Asari Dokubo, and Chief Edwin Clark, for launching what he described as an orchestrated campaign of calumny against the […]
—The President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oristejiafor, has written a letter to the visiting American Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, expressing CAN’s reservation on the manner the issues of Boko Haram and related violence by Islamist groups against Nigerian Christians are being treated by the United States. The Letter […]
ABUJA (AFP) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Nigeria on Thursday to meet President Goodluck Jonathan and was expected to offer assistance in helping the country stop a worsening Islamist insurgency. Her visit to Nigeria comes with Jonathan under growing pressure to stop the violence in the northern and central regions of […]
Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf of the FCT High Court on Thursday gave CBN Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, a last chance to obey court order or face “the consequences of disobedience’’. Baba-Yusuf gave the warning following complaints by Chief Tochukwu Onwugbufor (SAN), counsel to Chief Chudi Chukwuani, that the CBN had flouted a court order that mandated […]
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