Posted by admin
Latest Politics, Women Politics
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
ABUJA — President Goodluck Jonathan may have ordered the National Intelligence Agency, NIA, to conduct full investigations into an Austrian newspaper report alleging the purchase of a 20 million Euro mansion by the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke. Alison-Madueke was one of the recipients of the national honours in Abuja yesterday and has […]
Posted by admin
Latest Politics
Monday, November 14th, 2011
Nigeria’s debt portfolio, which once became an albatross to Nigeria’s economy, is gradually becoming unmanageable again as the Director General of Debt Management Office (DMO), Dr Abraham Nwankwo, yesterday, put it at N6.1 trillion. Nwankwo, who gave this figure in Abuja at the commencement of training for Nigeria’s first set of medium term debt strategy experts […]
Posted by admin
Latest Politics
Monday, November 14th, 2011
The President yesterday justified why business mongul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, was bestowed with Nigeria’s second highest honour of Grand Commander of the Niger (GCON). The award is usually reserved for the Vice President, Senate President and the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). Criticisms have trailed Dangote’s GCON since the list was made public last weekend. […]
Posted by admin
Latest Politics, State News
Monday, November 14th, 2011
FOR the third time this year, the monthly allocation to federal, state and local governments from the federation and other special accounts again skyrocketed, as the three tiers of government shared N1.75 trillion allocations in October. The bumper allocation was arrived at after states rejected earlier allocations to them by the Federation Allocation Account Committee […]
Posted by admin
Abuja (FCT), Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Monday, November 14th, 2011
The U.S Mission in Nigeria has relaxed its weekend security warning to its citizens to avoid specific locations in Abuja over fears of bomb attacks. A statement posted on the mission’s website on Wednesday said there were“increased security checks at major hotels, government facilities, and along major roadways in Abuja”. It added that the mission […]
Posted by admin
Armed Forces, Latest Politics
Sunday, November 13th, 2011
BY CHIDI NKWOPARA OWERRI— The Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, has debunked the belief in some quarters that the country’s intelligence machinery was a failure and inefficient. Ihejirika, who stated this while flagging off this year’s Army Chaplains Training Week in Owerri, however, promised that security men would continue to enhance […]
Posted by admin
Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Sunday, November 13th, 2011
By Daniel Eteghe & Okebugwu Chinomnso LAGOS — As the deadline by the Federal Government to the United Kingdom’s mega carrier, British Airways (BA) to reduce its flight frequencies from seven to three times a week expires tomorrow, Aviation Minister, Princess Stella Oduah, yesterday, insisted that the British Government was wrong in disrespecting the Bilateral […]
Posted by admin
Kwara, Latest Politics, Osun, State News
Sunday, November 13th, 2011
Retired Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Tafa Balogun, has made a special case for the creation of Igbomina State from the present Kwara and Osun states, saying “the ethnic equation of Nigeria remains incomplete without the creation of Igbomina State.” Speaking as the chairman of the seventh Igbomina Day Celebration held at Esie in Irepodun […]
Posted by admin
Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Saturday, November 12th, 2011
The dreaded Islamist sect, Boko Haram, has reportedly enlisted more volunteers willing to embark on suicide attacks across the North-Eastern flank of the country and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) even as security forces have intensified the heat on the group’s known locations in the bid to cripple its activities. Intelligence goons, who uncovered the […]
Posted by admin
Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
To curb the activities of Boko Haram and other anti-state groups, the Federal Government has ordered a 24-hour surveillance around all hotels that have over 50 rooms capacity in the country while all public infrastructure and private recreational centres would now to be manned by plain clothes security operatives. The order, which emanated from the […]
