President Goodluck Jonathan will on Wednesday (today) leave Abuja for Brussels after the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council on a one-day official visit to Belgium. According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, the President would deliver a keynote address at the Summit of the World […]
New National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), on Tuesday held a closed-door meeting with Vice-President Namadi Sambo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Issues relating to government’s expectations from the new NSA were said to have formed part of the meeting that lasted about 30 minutes. Before leaving the villa, Dasuki also went into the […]
There was a shake-up in the nation’s oil sector on Tuesday as President Goodluck Jonathan removed the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mr. Austen Oniwon, and three group executive directors. Oniwon was asked to go on compulsory retirement. A new GMD in the person of Mr. Andrew Yakubu has been named […]
The Federal Government has advised security beef up around the chairman of the Presidential Task Team on Pension Reform, Abdulrasheed Maina. This action by the government, at the weekend, is a subtle demonstration of support for Maina, notwithstanding the stance by the Senate which alleged in a report by its Ad Hoc Committee on Pension […]
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has blamed Nigeria’s leadership for the US’ designation of three leaders of Boko Haram as Specially Designated Global Terrorists, with its implications for Nigeria’s sovereignty. In a statement issued in Ilesa, Osun State, on Sunday, by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the Jonathan presidency […]
A Niger Delta-based civil society organisation, People and Environmental Rights Assembly (PERA) has commended President Goodluck Jonathan for dispelling the insinuation that he is a sectional leader, by choosing the new National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (retd) from the core North. The group, in a statement signed by its national coordinator, Mr […]
By: TIMOTHY OLA, Maiduguri Date: Thu, 06/21/2012 – 23:57 The Federal Government’s war on terrorism got a boost in Damaturu, Yobe State yesterday when soldiers captured one of the believed masterminds of last Christmas Day bombing of St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, Madalla, Niger State. In the net of the Joint Task Force (JTF) after a […]
By McPHILIPS NWACHUKWU, BEN AGANDE & JAPHET LAKAM with agency report President Goodluck Jonathan was among several Nigerians who paid tribute to late Ambassador Segun Olusola, one-time Nigerian Ambassador to Ethiopia and a cultural icon yesterday. Olusola, 77, died in a Lagos hospital Thursday. Aside Jonathan, those who mourned Olusola included Governors Peter Obi and […]
Embattled lawmaker, Farouk Lawan, has finally promised to surrender the $500,000 bribe to the Special Task Force before the end of the week following serious psychological and physical pressures mounted on him by investigators. It was learnt that Lawan succumbed to the pressure mounted him by the STF Commissioner of Police, Ali Ahmodu, on Wednesday […]
PENSE and curiosity were palpable at the House of Representatives and the Force Headquarters, Abuja yesterday as the two institutions continued their search for the $620,000 bribe, a member, Farouk Lawan, received. While the House is tracing the whereabouts of the money, Lawan, the chairman of the House Ad-Hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy Monitoring, who […]
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