BY KINGSLEY OMONOBI, Abuja Indications emerged yesterday in Abuja that Police authorities of the Special Task Force investigating the $620, 000 bribery scandal involving the collection of same amount of money by erstwhile Chairman of the House of reps subsidy probe panel, Hon. Farouk Lawan from oil magnate, Chief Femi Otedola has concluded the investigation, […]
THE United States (US) embassy in Abuja has lifted the restrictions on US citizens not to visit establishments identified as potential targets. A security message entitled: “The US Mission in Nigeria issues this emergency message to update US citizens on the current threat situation in Nigeria”, signed by Carol A. Cox, Consular Section chief, said […]
President Goodluck Jonathan, on Wednesday, visited the National Energy Skills Centre (NESC) at Point Lisas, Couva in Trinidad and Tobago, in continuation of his three-day state visit to the Caribbean nation. The centre is currently training no fewer than 70 Niger Delta youths in heavy equipment operations, crane operations, metal arc welding, industrial mechanical maintenance […]
The Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Thursday, tried to douse the controversy set off by the implementation of the budget by the Goodluck Jonathan administration. Okonjo-Iweala spoke at the Senate when she appeared before the special joint committee on the performance of the 2012 budget. Asked if the country was broke, she said, […]
*Says he has previous criminal records By ABDULWAHAB ABDULAH, ONOZURE DANIA & MICHAEL OLADEPO LAGOS – An Ikeja High Court yesterday refused to grant bail to one of the oil marketers, Oluwaseun Ogunbanbo who is being prosecuted alongside others on the ground of his previous criminal records even as others were admitted to bail. Ogunbambo, […]
Abuja – Taxpayers in Nigeria are now entitled to a Consolidated Relief Allowance (CRA) of N200,000, a top official of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), has said. Mr Samuel Ogungbesan, Coordinating Director, Field Operations of FIRS, disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja at a workshop organised for Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) on the […]
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA— Elder statesman and prominent Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, yesterday, declared that some highly placed individuals from the Northern part of the country were behind the increasing spate of violence in Nigeria to actualize their vow of “making the nation ungovernable for President Jonathan.” Speaking as a guest lecturer at […]
The world bank has lauded the efforts of the Nigerian government to rise to the challenges being posed by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. According to David Wilson, World Bank Global HIV/AIDS Program Director, “the battle of AIDS will be won or lost in a small number of countries, and few are more important than Nigeria,”. “We […]
Minister of Aviation, Mrs. Stella Oduah | credits: File copy The investigative panel set up by the Ministry of Aviation to review operations in the aviation industry has asked the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency in the sector in order to tackle its deficiencies. The panel headed by Group Captain John Obakpolor […]
Bishop of the Owo Diocese of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Rt. Rev. James Oladunjoye, fears Nigeria may disintegrate under President Goodluck Jonathan if he fails to bring sponsors of the dreadful Boko Haram sect to book. Oladunjoye stated this in his Bishop charge which he read on Friday during the Third Session of […]
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