The re-run election ordered by the Court of Appeal Benin for Delta State has been fixed for the 6th of January, 2011, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, announced yesterday in Abuja.National Commissioner in charge of Publicity, Prince Solomon Soyebi, who disclosed this in Abuja said the date was in line with the 90-day period […]
Nigeria’s four refineries with combined capacity to refine 445,000 barrels per day of crude oil have been completely shut. The implication is that Nigeria will now be importing all its petroleum products. The refineries have for years operated far below their capacity utilisation, due to attacks on their crude supply pipelines and the problem of […]
The Federal Government has within this outgoing 2010 recovered the sum of $170.8 million as crime proceeds from various multinational companies and individuals indicted in the course of the year. The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr Bello Adoke (SAN), disclosed this, on Wednesday, during the annual ministerial press briefing of […]
Fresh tragedy was averted in Lagos on Wednesday when two separate accidents occurred at the Michael Otedola Estate axis in the Lagos end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. A similar accident involving a sugar-laden truck at the same spot on August 15 claimed over 40 lives while about 25 vehicles were burnt. Also, an 18-seater passenger […]
As the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) battles various airlines, agencies and concessionaires that owe it billions of naira, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Aviation, Elder Anyim Ude has called for the involvement of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the debt recovery to make it a huge success. He said the […]
Unless the Federal Government puts the brakes on its current policy of uncontrolled spending, the nation risks going broke. This was the warning of former vice president and presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. According to a statement by the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation, the former vice president had severally […]
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega yesterday raised the fear of electoral insecurity as the commission prepares for the crucial stage of voter registration next year. He stressed the need to take urgent steps to put saboteurs in check ahead of the elections. In a swift follow-up. the National Security […]
Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Canada, Professor Iorwuse Hagher has pledged to sponsor two staff of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria to Canada to study complex lighting systems. Professor Hagher, an alumnus and several years lecturer in the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria made the pledge during a courtesy call on the Vice Chancellor of the university, […]
Barely a week after former minister of information and communications, Professor Dora Akunyili, quit the federal cabinet, there are strong indication last night that morer ministers may quit. President Goodluck Jonathan and Vice President Namadi Sambo are already touring the geo-political zones seeking delegates’ endorsements ahead of the 2011 presidential primaries of the People Democratic […]
Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, says unfavourable competition arising from the World Trade Organisation Treaty is responsible for the collapse of industries in the country. According to him, “no country in the world can survive industrially with such an unfavourable competition and I have been having this argument with […]
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