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Latest Politics
Friday, September 23rd, 2011
New York – Nigeria’s investment potentials support private sector and are increasingly becoming more open and transparent, President Goodluck Jonathan, said on in Thursday New York. Declaring open an International Investment Summit on Nigeria’s economy in New York, Jonathan said positive results had been recorded on the anti-corruption campaign, security in Niger Delta as well […]
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Latest Politics, Ministries
Friday, September 23rd, 2011
The Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has said that recurrent expenditure in next year’s budget is to be reduced from 74 to 72 per cent. Okonjo- Iweala made the disclosure at a forum organised by ThisDay Newspapers at the ongoing annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in […]
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Latest Politics, National Politics, Raw Politics
Friday, September 23rd, 2011

Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, yesterday decried growing and outrageous cost of governance without meaningful impact on development and empowerment of the populace. He solicited the assistance of the media in the delivery of dividends of democracy. The former boss of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) gave the […]
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Judiciary, Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
THE Senate, on Wednesday, confirmed the appointment of Justice Dahiru Musdapher as the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). Musdapher was recommended by the National Judicial Council (NJC) to replace Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, who retired as Chief Justice of Nigeria on August 28. Also confirmed was Mr Darius Dickson Ishaku as the minister representing Taraba […]
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Ekiti, Latest Politics, State News
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
AS exclusively reported by the Nigerian Tribune, a new three-count amended charge brought against the former governor of Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, stalled his trial for allegedly operating foreign accounts while in office, on Wednesday, though he was docked at the Code of Conduct Tribunal in Abuja. His legal team, led by Chief Wole […]
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Latest Politics, United Nations
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
THE United Nations (UN) is set to initiate a counter-terrorism implementation task force in Nigeria by November, to educate and make terrorism less attractive to the youth. President Goodluck Jonathan disclosed this in New York, United States, on Wednesday, in his presentation at the ongoing UN General Assembly debate. He told the gathering that Nigeria […]
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Latest Politics, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
A former governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, has blamed the economic problem in the country on Obasanjo, saying that the former president, on assumption of office as president in 1999, after returning from prison, was busy travelling across the world, instead of addressing the problems of poverty and infrastructural deficit. Speaking with journalists […]
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Latest Politics, United Nations
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has received United States Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, as part of his scheduled activities at the sidelines of the ongoing 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Mrs Clinton, who met Jonathan in his Ritz Carligton accommodation on Tuesday, welcomed the president to the United States, after […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics, Sultan of Sokoto
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
A conflict resolution consultant and leader of the Macedonian Initiatives, Reverend Ladi Thompson has tasked President Goodluck Jonathan as well as the State Security Service (SSS), to reveal the identities of the sponsors of the dreaded sect, Boko Haram with a view to bringing them to book and put an end to the needless carnage […]
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Judiciary, Latest Politics
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
Chief Justice of Nigeria, Aliyu Musdapher yesterday declined to comment on the suspension of President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Isa Salami yesterday. The new CJN appeared before the Senate for the constitutional confirmatory hearing. Senate also confirmed the appointment of Mr. Darius Dickson Ishaku, as a minister representing Taraba State in the […]