•Adoke to lead team •43 witnesses set to testify •Trial begins Fresh facts emerged yesterday on how the N13.4billion fuel subsidy funds were allegedlly diverted by 20 suspects, who belong to the first batch of those to face trial. The Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN), will lead the team, which will […]
THE House of Representatives on Monday said the ultimatum given to President Goodluck Jonathan to either achieve 100 per cent budget performance by September or face impeachment procedures, was borne out of genuine desire to move the country forward. The lawmakers condemned insinuations that the impeachment threat had to do with their desire for contracts […]
By Oscarline Onwuemenyi ABUJA — Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, has stated that investigations into fuel subsidy payments by the commission would soon be completed and those indicted arraigned in court. Lamorde, who stated this, yesterday, when the President of Campaign for Democracy, CD, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, paid […]
TRAGEDY struck yesterday as the Senator representing Plateau North, Dr. Gyang Dantong, his counterpart in the Plateau State House of Assembly and the Majority Leader representing Barkin Ladi, Gyang Fulani, were yesterday killed by gunmen, during the mass burial of victims of the Saturday attack of some communities in the state. Meanwhile, in view of […]
National Youth Service Corps members | credits: Corps members posted to Yobe, Kaduna, Kano, Sokoto, Bornu and Bauchi states have asked the National Youth Service Corps to redeploy them from these trouble states. The corps members, who expressed sadness as they received their call-up letters for the Batch B NYSC service year, said they […]
The Chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau, Mr. Sam Saba, has said the constitution bars the bureau from making public the asset declaration forms of President Goodluck Jonathan and Vice-President Namadi Sambo. He said this in an interview in Abuja, on Friday. He said the National Assembly had yet to provide the required guidelines […]
They are often blamed for any and every social disturbance in the northern part of Nigeria. In fact, to many, the Almajiri are nothing but irritants. But Hannah Hoechner, a researcher from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, UK, who spent a year in Kano working with the Almajiri, does not see them as such. […]
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday declared that the aim of the Islamic religious sect, Boko Haram’s insurgency in the country is to destabilise government and make it unable to function, vowing that his administration would do all that is necessary to halt their terrorist activities. Speaking during a live radio and television presidential media chat […]
President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday sacked the Defence Minister, Dr. Haliru Bello; and the National Security Adviser, Gen. Owoye Azazi. The decision to sack the two former government officials over the growing level of insecurity in the country was taken less than two hours after the President returned from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he […]
THE news that President Goodluck Jonathan jetted out of the country amidst violence in Kaduna and Yobe states provoked public outrage on Tuesday. Jonathan on Monday travelled to Brazil to take part in a United Nations’ Earth Summit, leaving behind killings in Kaduna and Yobe. Opposition parties and other eminent citizens who spoke to The […]
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