SGF”s office to lose control of agencies Govt may stop sponsorship of pilgrims FEC gets copies of Oronsaye’s report today TWO contentious issues: The powers of the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) over parastatals and the Federal Government’s sponsorship of Christian and Muslim pilgrims to the Holy Lands, may […]
The Federal Government yesterday told former Head of State, Major-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), that any revolution in the country would consume him and his party, Congress for Progressive Change (CPC). Speaking through Information Minister Labaran Maku, the government said the revolution would wipe out the CPC and its men, not the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) […]
By Dr. John E. Oshodi | Abuja, Nigeria | April 23, 2012 Mr. President, Why Ministers Defy Order on the number of Aides It is now in the public domain that a good number of Nigerian Ministers have openly ignored your directives to curtail the number of their Aides in regards to special adviser/assistants and […]
Showdown looms between the National Assembly and the Presidency over non-implementation of its resolutions since 1999. As the House of Representatives settles down to discuss the report of its ad-hoc committee which investigated the fuel subsidy regime last Tuesday, indications emerged at the weekend that the Presidency believed that the incessant probes of federal ministries, […]
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has been named among 100 most influential people in the world in 2012 by Times Magazine. Named alongside Jonathan were United States President, Barack Obama; German Chancellor, Angela Merkel; International Monetary Fund (IMF) President, Christine Lagarde and Italian Prime Minister, Mario Monti. Others were US presidential hopeful, Mitt Romney; Israeli Prime Minister, […]
By Soni Daniel – Leadership It was interesting to read the other day that the people of the South-South had endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan for a second term barely a year into his tenure. They did not say whether he had done well to deserve a second term, as is the case on other forward-looking […]
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), has cautioned former military president and presidential aspirant on the party platform, General Ibrahim Babangida, against incessant attacks on happenings within the party. Reacting to a statement credited to the Media Assistant to the former military president, Prince Kassim Afegbua, which was published in […]
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | April 15, 2012 – Recently, a minor event took me down memory lane and I felt nostalgic to the point of tears. In that my nostalgic mood, a song from the past came to my mind. It was a song by Candi Staton. I do not remember the […]
The presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the 2011 general elections, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, has declared his intention to re-contest the seat in the 2015 general elections. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Buhari made his intention known while addressing CPC supporters in Kaduna who […]
April 14, 2012 by Olalekan Adetayo President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday signed the 2012 Appropriation Bill into law with a vow to sack all heads of parastatals, who he said security reports had indicted for lobbying the National Assembly for increased budgets. The budget, with an aggregate expenditure of N4.697tn (excluding the appropriation of N180bn […]
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