BAUCHI, Nigeria, June 3 (UPI) — A suicide car bomber in northern Nigeria killed 12 people Sunday at a Pentecostal church, witnesses said. The number of people injured in the blast in the city of Bauchi was not reported. Witnesses told the BBC a man attempted to drive a car through the fence at Harvest […]
Ibrahim Shekarau By Adebiyi Adedapo The Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) has revealed fresh plans to charge a former governor of Kano State and presidential candidate of the All Nigeria’s Peoples Party (ANPP) in the 2011 general election, Ibrahim Shekarau over allegations of corruption. The bureau said it withdrew initial charges against […]
Governor Rotimi Amaechi Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has pledged to appoint more women as permanent secretaries in the State civil service. Governor Amaechi stated this on Thursday during an interactive session with Rivers women at the Banquet Hall of Government House, Port Harcourt. He said the decision was in line with […]
THE 788 doctors, who were recalled by the Lagos State government on Thursday, have declared that they will not resume duties until the state government withdraws the dismissal letter handed to them and sends letters of recall or reinstatement to all doctors, who were issued separate and individual letters of dismissal, saying their purported recall […]
In spite of public claim of poor performance, the three levels of government in the country spent a staggering N10.501 trillion in the last one year. The hefty sum was the revenue that accrued from the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC). Investigation by Saturday Tribune showed that out of the whole money shared, N780 billion […]
Democracy Day in Nasarawa State turned into a day of lamentation for the state governor, Alhaji Umaru Tanko Al’Makura, who expressed frustration over payment of N17 billion Paris Club loan his government never took. The governor said since he took over power a year ago, he has been battling with triple tragedy of having to […]
Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja 19 Comments The Federal Government and many states may clash over the subsidy re-investment accounts and programmes, investigations have shown. SATURDAY PUNCH learnt that many states had not opened accounts for the subsidy re-investment fund with the Central Bank of Nigeria. It was also learnt that the states faulted the move by […]
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, Abuja …dismisses Akpanudoedeghe’s petition The Supreme Court, yesterday, quashed moves by the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, to sack Governor Goodswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State through the election petition tribunal. ACN, alongside its candidate during the last governorship election, Senator James John Akpanudoedehe, challenged the decision of the Court of Appeal […]
June 2, 2012 by Segun Olatunji, Abeokuta 24 Comments The police in Ogun State said in Abeokuta on Friday that their men shot and killed four suspected highway robbers. The suspects were said to have attempted to rob a car conveying plainclothes policemen on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The suspected robbers numbering about seven had in […]
June 2, 2012 by Ozioma Ubabukoh, Enugu 26 Comments The anti-kidnap unit of the Enugu State Police Command has rescued six-year-old Kosi Akilo, who was abducted recently from her parents’ home at River Lane Crescent in GRA, Enugu. SATURDAY PUNCH learnt that the anti-kidnap unit, led by Superintendent Stephen Osaghae rescued Akilo in the early […]
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