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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Sunday, February 23rd, 2014
Mallam Lamido Sanusi The suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Lamido Sanusi, may face prosecution over the allegation of financial recklessness levelled against him by the Federal Government. SUNDAY PUNCH’s investigation revealed that relevant government agencies, especially the anti-graft agencies, would be asked to study the report of the Financial Reporting […]
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Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Sunday, February 16th, 2014
From Moshood Adebayo, Abeokuta Ahead of the 2015 general elections, former president Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday urged Christians to take active interest in the democratic process of the country. Obasanjo spoke during the fifth anniversary thanksgiving service of the Chapel of Christ the Glorious King (CCGK), a religious arm of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), in […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Wednesday, February 12th, 2014
President Goodluck Jonathan | credits: File copy President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday inaugurated the Nigeria Industrial Revolution Plan and the National Enterprise Development Programme. He also said the various policies so far put in place by his administration were clear indications that he would leave the country better and stronger than he met it. […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency, South-West
Sunday, February 9th, 2014
President Goodluck Jonathan President Goodluck Jonathan and his top aides are said to be developing strategies to stop the increasing popularity of the All Progressives Congress in the South-West and parts of the North-East and North-West. High-ranking Aso Rock officials told The PUNCH in Abuja, on Sunday, that this informed a recent meeting between President […]
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Presidency, Sokoto, State News
Sunday, February 9th, 2014
From TUNDE OMOLEHIN, Sokoto Former Sokoto State governor, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa has assured President Goodluck Jonathan of his support if he decides to contest in the 2015 presidential election. Bafarawa told the President in Sokoto yesterday at a grand reception organised to formally welcome him and his teeming supporters to the party fold. He said the […]
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Presidency
Saturday, February 8th, 2014
President Goodluck Jonathan President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday said only the Peoples Democratic Party could save Nigerians despite the challenges facing the party. Jonathan stated this in Sokoto State during a grand rally and reception organised for a former governor of the state, Attahiru Bafarawa, who defected to the PDP from the All Progressives Congress […]
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Presidency, Rivers, State News
Tuesday, February 4th, 2014
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, ex-Head of State, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari; and Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, were absent from Tuesday’s National Council of State meeting in the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Although Amaechi, through his Chief Press Secretary, David Iyofor, said he could not attend the meeting because he was out of the country, […]
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JTU Aguiyi-Ironsi (1966-66), Latest Politics, Presidency
Saturday, February 1st, 2014
BY CHIMA NWAFO This reaction is intended to correct widespread misinformation about the office of the Senate president in the First Republic and malicious distortion of facts on the January 15, 1966 coup that ushered the military into power. First, it is important to state, in unequivocal terms, that Dr. Abyssinia Akweke Nwafor-Orizu was the […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Friday, January 31st, 2014
THE Presidency has warned the All Progressive Congress (APC) against the acts of war it has declared on Nigerians through its anti-people directives to its members in the National Assembly (NASS) who were elected and swore oaths of allegiance to perform their constitutional duties to their constituencies across the country. The warning came against the […]
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Presidency, Rivers, State News
Saturday, January 25th, 2014
Views: 1001 Rivers State Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has made good his words to personally attend today’s rally in Ogoniland despite fears of a breakdown of law and order and advice against doing so. “We are off to Bori for the rally and His Excellency is going with us,” a source close to […]
