Font size: Maina DETECTIVES at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) are questioning a Federal Permanent Secretary and two directors in some ministries for allegedly stealing about N14.3billion Police Pension cash. The suspects, The Nation learnt yesterday, explained how they looted the pension funds. The three suspects, whose names could not be immediately […]
MORE facts emerged yesterday on why Britain deported 53 Nigerians last week. Many of them had overstayed their visas. Some had completed their prison terms, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. It also maintained, through a statement signed by its spokesman, Ogbole Ode, that 53 – not 120 – Nigerians were brought back home from […]
The South-South Peoples Assembly (SSPA) has said the convocation of a Sovereign National Conference is the antidote to the myriad of problems confronting the nation, urging the government to exploit it to strengthen the unity and peaceful co-existence among the various ethnic nationalities in the country. It warned the Federal Government not to ignore the […]
THE Arewa Youths Forum (AYF) has said past leaders of northern extraction had the opportunities to bring growth and development to the North, lamenting that they wasted the opportunities. The forum, after an emergency meeting in Kaduna, at the weekend, expressed dismay over the direction Nigerian politics was heading. The national president of AYF, Gambo […]
FOLLOWING new arrangements put in place by the security operatives in Plateau State to arrest the spate of suicide bombings, most churches in Jos, the state capital on Sunday, recorded a low turnout. At a meeting with the stakeholders, including religious leaders last week, the security operatives in the state reeled off new security arrangements, […]
Lawrence Onoja, A retired Major-General in the Army, Lawrence Onoja, has supported the Federal Government’s move to dialogue with the Islamic sect, Boko Haram. He said dialoguing with the group, no doubt, will help douse the tension caused by the activities of the Islamic sect and will eventually bring an end to the incessant bloodbaths […]
Dr. Junaid Mohammed THE fire ignited by Dr. Junaid Mohammed and the Coalition of Northern Leaders, Academics, Professionals and Businessmen continued to rage yesterday as many activists and leaders from the South picked the gauntlet to dispute the contention of the North on revenue allocation to Niger Delta States. Former leader of the Ijaw […]
Minister of Information and Communications, Labaran Maku, on Thursday in Kaduna said the insecurity in the North had been drawing back the rest of the country. Maku said the efforts being made by the government to develop all parts of the country would come to nothing unless peace returns to the North. The minister stated […]
AFTER several months of committee work, the Senate yesterday passed a budget of N4, 877,209,156,933 for the 2012 fiscal year with an oil benchmark of $72 per barrel. Details of the budget presented by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Ahmad Maccido and passed by the Senate showed that N372, 593, 095, 601 is […]
Again, northern leaders meet over insecurity THE Federal Government may have in the last one week held its first indirect peace talks with the Boko Haram sect, meeting mediators to discuss a possible ceasefire, the international news agency, Reuters, quoted sources as saying yesterday. Two people close to Boko Haram have been carrying messages back […]
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