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86 Ex-CBN Employees Die Waiting For Entitlement

Posted by admin Latest Politics, National Politics Sunday, March 6th, 2011

OVER 86 senior pensioners of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) may have died in the past 10 years while waiting for the bank to implement the Federal Government policy on harmonisation of pension scheme for civil servants. Documents presented by representatives of the pensioners, and the attestation by their lawyer, confirmed this staggering mortality […]

Obasanjo condemns heroic reception for Bode George

Posted by admin National Politics Saturday, March 5th, 2011

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Friday, condemned the recent heroic welcome organised for a leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olabode George. George was, last Saturday, released from the Kirikiri Maximum Prisons after he completed a two-year jail term. The lavish reception that was organised for him by the PDP and which was attended […]

Bode George’s welcome party, a show of shame

Posted by admin Latest Politics, National Politics Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okogie, has described as shameful the recent pomp and pageantry with which the former Vice Chairman of PDP, Chief Olabode George, was greeted on his release from Kirikiri Maximum prison. George was released on Saturday after serving a two and half year jail term. He was convicted on […]

2015: No vacancy for Igbos –Abba-Aji

Posted by admin National Politics, Top Stories Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Mohammed Abba-Aji has foreclosed the possibility of an Igbo man being elected as president in 2015. “It is very clear, Vice President Sambo will step in, as soon as Jonathan finishes,” he says in an interview. According to him, the nation needs an Institutional memory […]

MOPOL officers kill Police Constable in Warri

Posted by admin Headlines, National Politics Monday, February 28th, 2011

FIVE men dressed in Moblie Police uniform, yesterday, morning shot dead one Police Constable, Felix Omale, attached to the “A” Division Police Headquarters, Warri, Delta State. A police patrol team from the “A” Division was at a nipping point along the Ekurede Itsekiri/NPA expressway when a black SUV with unknown plate number was flagged down […]

Okah roars from jail – Nigeria ripe for revolution

Posted by admin National Politics, Top Stories Saturday, February 26th, 2011

Even in jail, purported leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Henry Okah, remains unrepentant and unfazed. From his South African prison cell, he spoke at the weekend and called for the “flushing out” of the political class in Nigeria through the kind of mass revolt and popular resistance sweeping […]

Bianca: An appointment laced with controversy

Posted by admin Latest Politics, National Politics Saturday, February 26th, 2011

The recent appointment of a former beauty queen, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, as an aide of President Goodluck Jonathan, has attracted diverse opinions. But EMMANUEL OBE writes that it might be the fillip Bianca needs to launch herself into the nation’s political firmament These might not be the best of times for Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, a former […]

Ribadu seeks removal of Attorney-General

Posted by admin Latest Politics, National Politics Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

Should the Nuhu Ribadu Campaign Organisation have its way, the Attorney-General and Justice Minister, Mohammed Bello Adoke, will be kicked out of his job immediately. Reason: his obvious lack of commitment to the fight against corruption – according to the organisation. Its Director (Media and Communications), Ibrahim Modibbo, in a statement, said: “President Goodluck Jonathan […]

el-Rufai must face trial, says Waziri

Posted by admin Latest Politics, National Politics Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Mrs. Farida Waziri, yesterday said the case against a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has not been withdrawn. She said within two and a half years, the EFCC has recovered $6.5b (N975b) and secured 150 convictions. She also said over 1,500 cases […]

Reps meet Tuesday on probe of CJN, Salami

Posted by admin Judiciary, Legislature, National Politics, Raw Politics, Senate Monday, February 21st, 2011

The House of Representatives’ Committee on Justice handling the probe of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, and the President of the Appeal Court, Justice Ayo Salami, has said that it will decide on Tuesday (tomorrow) whether to summon both the CJN and PAC or not. The Committee said it might also summon […]