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25% of Budget: Sanusi has apologised to N’Assembly – Makarfi

Posted by admin House, Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

Chairman, Senate Committee on Finance, Senator Ahmed Makarfi has said that Nigerians did not understand the Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, when he (Sanusi) said members of the National Assembly alone were spending 25 per cent of the country’s annual budget. Makarfi, who spoke to journalists in Kaduna at an interactive forum disclosed that he […]

FG vows to fish out perpetrators of Plateau, Bauchi, Borno crises (Blah, Blah…)

Posted by admin Bauchi, Borno, Latest Politics, Plateau, State News Monday, January 31st, 2011

Minister for Information and Communications, Mr. Labran Maku, yesterday, vowed to bring the perpetrators of Plateau, Bauchi and Borno states’ killings to book. Maku, who stated this while answering questions from newsmen, condemned incessant killing of politicians in recent times in the country. It would be recalled that Borno State All Nigerian Peoples Party, ANPP, […]

We ‘ll not declare state of emergency – Presidency

Posted by admin Latest Politics Monday, January 31st, 2011

THE Presidency yesterday declared that President Goodluck Jonathan was uncomfortable toeing the line of a state of emergency in both Plateau and Borno states where street organised crime had continued unabated in the recent past. A Presidency source said despite repeated calls for a state of emergency to be declared in Plateau and Borno states, […]

Economy: Soludo Challenges Aganga to TV Debate

Posted by admin CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria), Latest Politics Sunday, January 30th, 2011

Soludo, ex-CBN Governor Former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has challenged Minister of Finance, Dr. Olusegun Aganga, to a televised debate over the state of the economy. In a newspaper advert published Monday, Soludo stood by his claims about the state of the economy and defended his record as […]

Killing in democracy’s name must stop -IBB

Posted by admin Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Latest Politics, Presidency Sunday, January 30th, 2011

FORMER Military President Ibrahim Babangida yesterday condemned last Friday killing of the Borno State Candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, Engr. Fannami Modu Gubio and six others, just as he said that the act which “is barbaric and frightening calls for worry by all in the country.” In a statement signed yesterday in […]

Why Shagari Was Overthrown – Dikko

Posted by admin Latest Politics Sunday, January 30th, 2011

Alhaji Umaru Dikko was Minister of Transport during the Shagari regime. He holds the opinion that the military was and still is the nation’s problem. He also spoke to David Odama on why Shagari was overthrown. Nigerians of the younger generation are almost forgetting that there was once a minister called Umaru Dikko. Why have […]

Lar Blasts ACF Over Jonathan

Posted by admin Arewa House, Latest Politics Sunday, January 30th, 2011

Says it doesn’t represent the North || Elder statesman and Second Republic governor of Plateau State Chief Solomon Lar has lashed out at the leadership of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) over its rejection of the candidature of President Goodluck Jonathan for this year’s polls. Lar said the ACF does not the represent the North […]

2/3 Of Nigerian Judges Doomed For Hell – Justice Abimbola

Posted by admin Judiciary, Latest Politics Sunday, January 30th, 2011

Two-third of judges in Nigeria would end up in hell fire while only one third of them would enjoy eternity in Paradise, a High Court justice, Justice Siyan Abimbola said in Ibadan during the weekend at a symposium. The symposium titled Election Petition and Electoral offences in Nigeria: can the judicial lessons of the past […]

Jonathan intervenes in governors, ministers’ rift

Posted by admin Governors, Latest Politics, Ministries Sunday, January 30th, 2011

President Goodluck Jonathan has interverned in the rift between some governors and ministers in his government. The president is said to be worried that the rift, if not settled, could jeopardise the fortunes of the Peoples Democratic Party-led government in the April general election. The crack had made some PDP governors to call for the […]

Jos crisis: Cleric warns northern Christians against reprisals

Posted by admin Latest Politics Saturday, January 29th, 2011

AS sectarian killings continued in Plateau and Borno states, creating fears in Christians in other parts of the North, the national vice president of Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) in charge of South West zone, Bishop Wale Oke has appealed to Christians in northern parts of the country to resist the temptation for reprisal in […]