The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is set to arrest six more ex-governors who vacated office on May 29, THE PUNCH has learnt. A reliable source in the EFCC dropped hints of the arrest on Thursday even as the anti-graft agency arrested and detained the immediate past governors of Ogun, Oyo and Nasarawa states, […]
Two suspected Boko Haram members were on Wednesday shot dead by soldier while attempting to gun down a tea seller in Zannari, Maiduguri. The Borno State Police Commissioner, Mr Simeon Midenda, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Maiduguri that the incident happened in the evening. Midenda said the suspects had gone to the […]
Nigeria and Rwanda have formalized their relationship by signing a bilateral agreement that would strengthen the ties between the two countries. This was even as the Rwandan Government through it’s ministry of health had requested that the next batch of the Technical Aid Corp (TAC), be composed of specialists in general surgery, gynecology, pediatrics, orthopedics […]
In what appears to be a direct response to the criticism from the opposition parties and other Nigerians, over the low-keyed celebration at the State House, Abuja, instead of the traditional Eagle Square, President Goodluck Jonathan has announced that the situation will not be different until 2014. While the Federal Government considered the celebration of […]
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan left Abuja, on Wednesday, for an official visit to three African nations including Rwanda, Ethiopia and Ghana. According to a state-ment issued in Abuja, bila-teral talks and signing of a communiqué to formalise all agreements reached between the Nigeria and Rwanda would be the high point of his visit to the country. The statement […]
Anglo-Dutch oil giants, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has been summoned by the House of Representatives to explain alleged involvement in the series of killings and clashes in the Niger Delta, especially in Rumuekpe village of Rivers State. The management would face the House Committee on Petroleum Resources (Upstream) to clear its linkage with militant […]
After over seven years of illegally operating the Excess Crude Account (ECA), the Presidency has finally bowed to the National Assembly’s pressure to scrap the account. The ECA, which was created in 2004, during the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo, with a whopping $9.4billion, was said to contravene section 80 of the 1999 constitution. The […]
Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Air Chief Marshall Oluseyi Petirin, has said that there was no cause for alarm over the insurgency of the Islamist sect, Boko Haram. Since 2009, members of Islamist sect, which translates to ‘western education is sin’, has held the northeastern state of Borno at the jugular, paralyzing economic and social […]
The Presidency has indicated plans to remove the controversial fuel subsidy as from 2012 fiscal year. The Federal Government claimed it was subsidising petroleum products by over N600 billion yearly. If removed, critics of the fuel subsidy removal argued that the pump price of fuel may rise from its current N65 to between N120 and […]
It’s contradictory, says defence FORMER Commander of the 33 Artillery Brigade in Bauchi, Brig.-Gen. Muraina Raji, who was standing trial before a Special Court Martial at the 3 Armoured Division, Jos for his alleged role in the escape of two high profile Boko Haram suspects, has been discharged and acquitted of all the three […]
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