The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohaneze Nd’Igbo, at the weekend submitted the names of four persons to President Goodluck Jonathan for consideration as the next Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF). Those in list included former Senate President, Chief Anyim Pius Anyim, season academics, Profs. Uzodinma Nwala and Ben Obumselu and the current […]
Strong indications emerged on Saturday that core politicians may have a limited place in the new cabinet being put together by President Goodluck Jonathan. The development, SUNDAY PUNCH gathered, is already causing bad blood between the nation’s political class and technocrats as the chances of the former get slimmer by the day. Our correspondents learnt […]
FOLLOWING rumours of impending crisis in Kaduna State, the State Security Service (SSS) has smashed a syndicate that specialized in sending threat messages to unsuspecting members of the public with a view to causing trouble and extorting money from them. The suspects have engaged in disseminating messages of impending crisis by promoting religious disharmony among […]
The Pan African Parliament (PAP) will be represented at the May 29 inauguration of President Goodluck Jonathan, its President, Dr Idriss Ndele, said in Johannesburg on Friday. Ndele said Nigeria was playing a very important role in the continent and occupied a vital position in the AU. “We are going to represent PAP just like […]
The Federal Government has admitted that the post election violence in some parts of the north is embarrassing saying it is part of the challenges Nigeria expects to face to realise true and sustainable democracy. It has therefore declared its determination to ensure that the brains behind the violence are brought to book. Information and […]
Chief Tokunbo Ajasin, son of the former executive governor of the old Ondo State, Chief Michael Ajasin, has slammed the former military president, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (retd) for saying that power must return to the North in 2015. The chairman of Atayese, a Yoruba socio-cultural organisation and chieftain of the Action Congress of Nigeria […]
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said it was mandatory for all elected officers in the 2011 elections to deliver the dividends of democracy to the electorate, as failure to do so would amount to reneging on electoral promises to the people. Meanwhile, the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon would during his three-day working visit to […]
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has expressed government’s decision to institutionalise the leadership of federal delegations to all pilgrimages, saying that it was to build institutional memory and establish an acceptable standard of operations. He said this when he received the report of the Federal Government’s delegation for the 2010 Christian pilgrimage to Israel, at the State […]
THOSE who hope for a reduction in the number of federal ministers may have to wait a while, because President Goodluck Jonathan has indicated that such a move is beyond his power since it is a constitutional issue. The president said in a valedictory session with members of the Presidential Advisory Council (PAC), led by […]
THE weekly Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting Wednesday approved N23 billion for 10 various infrastructural projects in the nine states of the Niger Delta. Minister of Information and Communication, Mr Labaran Maku and the Minister of National Planning, Samshudeen Usman, while briefing State House correspondents said the FEC, presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan, after […]
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