A body of elders in the North, who met under the aegis of Arewa Elders Forum (AEF), has told southerners who are agitating for the convocation of a Sovereign National Conference (SNC) that the North can survive if the country divides. The elders also lamented insecurity in the country and reiterated their resolve to work […]
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has been named among 100 most influential people in the world in 2012 by Times Magazine. Named alongside Jonathan were United States President, Barack Obama; German Chancellor, Angela Merkel; International Monetary Fund (IMF) President, Christine Lagarde and Italian Prime Minister, Mario Monti. Others were US presidential hopeful, Mitt Romney; Israeli Prime Minister, […]
DIPLOMATS and foreign agencies in Nigeria have been urged to refrain from issuing “frivolous” statements on the security situation in the country to their nationals. The Federal Government, which reacted yesterday to recent travel warnings by some embassies to their nationals, asked the envoys to align more with the nation’s security and avoid making statements, […]
There are heightened fears that a cabal was determined to ensure that the Hon. Farouk Lawan-led committee panel report does not see the light of day or at worst, get the contents heavily doctored. As a result, controversy has continued to trail the report on fuel subsidy with a group describing it as being suspicious, […]
Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section The Federal Government, yesterday accused the nation’s aviation regulatory agencies of collusion with foreign airlines to fix airfares in the country. Foreign Affairs Minister, Olugbenga Ashiru said this when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Aviation at the commencement of a three-day public hearing on […]
Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala By Ndubuisi Francis in Abuja The Federal Government declared yesterday that it was worried by the domestic debt stock and was working towards cutting it down from the current N5.96 trillion to about N500 billion by 2015. Coordinating Minister of the Economy and […]
-south Governors’ Forum, Senator Liyel Imoke •Want fiscal federalism too By Okon Bassey in Uyo Governors of the South-south states yesterday rose from a one-day meeting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, and frowned on the long delay in the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), noting that it had impacted negatively on the geo-political […]
April 14, 2012 by Olalekan Adetayo President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday signed the 2012 Appropriation Bill into law with a vow to sack all heads of parastatals, who he said security reports had indicted for lobbying the National Assembly for increased budgets. The budget, with an aggregate expenditure of N4.697tn (excluding the appropriation of N180bn […]
April 14, 2012 by John Alechenu and Olalekan Adetayo President Goodluck Jonathan has condemned and rejected the ongoing attempt by a segment of the military in Guinea-Bissau to subvert the country’s constitution and truncate its democratic process. The process has been initiated for the election of a legal successor to the late President Malam Bacai […]
The Minister for Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu has said that the federal government will soon wield the big stick against public officers travelling abroad for medical attention. He, however, said such trip will only be allowed if there is a proven fact that the attention the public officer seeks is not available in Nigeria either […]
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