State Governors, barely a month old in the saddle, got an admonition yesterday that they should institute some fiscal restraint in their expenditure and should not depend on the monthly federal allocation for the realisation of their campaign promises. Rather, the executive chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS),Ifueko Omoigui Okauru, said they should grow Internally […]
Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun, on Monday, kicked against the on-going payment of taxes to Lagos State government by the Ogun indigenes working in Lagos state. Amosun said this in a brief interview with airport journalists at the residential wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, where he had gone to receive President Goodluck Jonathan […]
SENATOR representing Plateau South senatorial district, Senator Victor Lar, has condemned those advocating amnesty for the Boko Haram religious sect saying granting them amnesty is like succumbing to blackmail and intimidation. Speaking with Nigerian Tribune in Jos, Senator Lar said the postulation of the advocates of the amnesty that since the militants in the Niger-Delta […]
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Kwara State and the state police command have debunked rumour that the votes of the last April governorship election in the state were been recounted and that a certain political party was leading. A statement jointly signed by the Assistant Director, Public Affairs of INEC, Jacob Ayanda and […]
THE Nigerian Army has assured Nigerians that it is equal to the task of bringing the menace of Boko Haram to an end and vowed that operations towards that end will commence very soon. The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Azubuike Ihejirika, who stated this in Abuja on Monday while answering questions from newsmen, after […]
The strongman of Kwara politics, Dr. Olusola Saraki has comfirmed his reconciliation with his son, Senator Bukola Saraki, citing the need for peace and unity in the state as the motivating factor. The elder Saraki said the reconciliation was initiated by Bukola and that he succumbed to pressure from him so that “peace and unity […]
The drug business is always reserved for those who have the knowledge and expertise. As a result, it is never an all comers affair. But this is not so in a number of Nigerian cities, particularly Kano where, in the words of Christabel Julie Okoye, drugs of different kinds are displayed and freely hawked with […]
Aprivate security aide to a top state government official has allegedly shot two persons dead in controversial circumstances in Owhelogbo community, Isoko North Council Area of Delta State, at the weekend. The assailant, who works as private security aide attached to the country home residence of the Delta State Government official (name withheld) shot dead […]
WARRI— DELTA State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, said weekend that the Anti-kidnapping Bill passed by the state House of Assembly was yet to be signed into law because he didn’t believe in death sentence. This came as the governor and the state Commissioner of Police, Mamman Tsafe, blamed the rising wave of kidnapping in the […]
A pressure group in Edo State, the Niger Delta Women in Politics has dispelled rumours making the round in the State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that Edo State is in turmoil over ministerial nominee, saying on the contrary we commend the PDP over the ministerial nominee from Edo State; Arc Mike Onolememen, a young professional […]
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