The House of Representatives, yesterday ordered its Committees on Public Safety and National Security, Foreign Affairs, Interior and the Police Affairs to probe the migration of Nigeriens into Nigeria. The House also urged the Federal Government to, urgently provide aids to border communities and the migrants. Such aid it said, should be in form of […]
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, on Thursday, received letters of credence from the first ever Macedonia ambassador to the country, while expressing the hope of a rewarding relationship between Nigeria and the South-East European nation. He said in an audience with Ambassador Darko Angelov that government appreciated the effort of the Macedonian government in offering scholarship to some […]
THE Federal Government has declared Friday, 6th and Monday, 9th of April 2012 as public holidays to mark this year’s Easter celebrations. Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro, who announced this on behalf of the government in a statement in Abuja on Thursday, said the public holidays were in line with the Christian calendar and […]
TWO members of the suspected Islamist militant sect also called Boko Haram were on Wednesday night shot dead by police while three policemen sustained injuries, when the sect attacked and burnt down a police station in Damagum in Yobe State. Spokesman for the police in Yobe State, Mr Toyin Gbadegesin, who confirmed the incident in […]
The Senate President, David Mark, on Wednesday, accused the aviation regulatory agencies in the country of conniving with foreign airlines to fix high air fares. Specifically, Mark described the arbitrary price charged by British Airways and Virgin Atlantic as exploitative and unreasonable. Senator Hope Uzodinma with 27 others in a motion entitled: “Violation of Aviation […]
The House of Representatives on Wednesday frowned on the alleged “indiscriminate withdrawals” from the Stabilisation Account by the Federal Government, ordering an investigation into the matter. A motion by a lawmaker from Kano State, Mr. Haruna Fatahi, indicated that in the last eight months, the government had withdrawn “about N114bn” from the account and spent […]
By Daniel Eteghe LAGOS — Aviation unions under the aegis of the Air Transport Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, ATSSSAN, National Union of Air Transport Employees, NUATE, with its affiliate in the Trade Union Congress, TUC, yesterday, applauded the Federal Government for taking a bold step in terminating the concession agreement between FAAN and Maevis […]
By Rotimi Ajayi ABUJA — President Goodluck Jonathan has endorsed plan by the Ministry of Aviation to compel the British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and other international airlines operating in the country to correct the disparity in the fare charged Nigerians against that charged other West African passengers. A top source in the ministry told Vanguard […]
THE Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, has said the Federal Government spent N3 trillion in the education sector from 1999 till date. Senator Anyim, however, expressed displeasure that not much impact had been made to justify the expenditure. The SGF, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, General Services […]
A cabal within the Federal Civil Service may have started frustrating the reform being carried out in the pension scheme in Nigeria amid death threats being sent to the Pension Reform Task Team chairman, Mr Abdullahi Maina and other members. No fewer than 120 different individuals were said to have issued death treats to Maina […]
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