Ngozi Okonjo -Iweala , Finance Minister A new economic blueprint to drive President Goodluck Jonathan’s avowed transformation agenda is to be unfolded this week by the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. THISDAY learnt that the minister was meant to unveil the blueprint last Thursday during her maiden press conference but had to call it […]
NATIONAL President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan, former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon and ex-President Shehu Shagari to immediately intervene to douse the tension between the two feuding past rulers, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Gen. Ibrahim Babangida. Similarly, Catholic Archbishop of Lagos Metropolitan […]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo Ripples of the faceoff between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and General Ibrahim Babangida continued at the weekend as former personal assistant to Chief M.K.O. Abiola, Lisa Olu Akerele, described the confrontation between the former leaders as a well deserved poetic justice. Akerele said what happened between Obasanjo and Babangida was nothing […]
Ngozi Okonjo -Iweala , Finance Minister A new economic blueprint to drive President Goodluck Jonathan’s avowed transformation agenda is to be unfolded this week by the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. THISDAY learnt that the minister was meant to unveil the blueprint last Thursday during her maiden press conference but had to call it […]
GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State said that his government was presently discussing with the family of the late former Chief of General Staff , Admiral Augustus Aikhomu who served under General Ibrahim Babagida’s military administration on the burial plans and how to immortalise the elderstateman who was the only Edo indigene to have risen […]
GLOBAL companies face more corruption related prosecutions due to their corrupt dealings with Nigerian officials and have paid a total of three billion, two hundred million dollars [$3.2b] fine between 2010 and 2011 to the United States government and the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), officials of the American Department of Justice has disclosed. […]
From 2003, Nigeria lost billions of dollars to multi-national oil companies from Asian countries under the oil-for-infrastructure agreements, an investigative report of Chatham House recently released in the United Kingdom has revealed. Successive Nigerian governments had entered into oil-for-infrastructure agreements with oil companies from India, South-Korea and China, but the projects were never executed even though […]
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday approved the appointment of African richest man and Chairman of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote and four others into the Federal Government’s Economic Management Team, which will be chaired by the coordinator of EMT and Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. A statement by Presidential Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr […]
The embattled President of the Court of Appeal, PCA, Justice Isa Ayo Salami, yesterday, approached a Federal High Court in Abuja for an order setting aside his suspension by the National Judicial Council, NJC. The PCA who described his removal from office as a ‘judicial joke’, contended that the council was bereft of the statutory […]
THE popular saying is that when two elephants fight, it is the grass that tends to suffer. This may not be necessarily true in the case of two former Nigerian leaders, Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida, who are locked in a battle of wits over their stewardship in the past. Were it during their active service in […]
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