TRAGEDY struck yesterday as the Senator representing Plateau North, Dr. Gyang Dantong, his counterpart in the Plateau State House of Assembly and the Majority Leader representing Barkin Ladi, Gyang Fulani, were yesterday killed by gunmen, during the mass burial of victims of the Saturday attack of some communities in the state. Meanwhile, in view of […]
The Federal Government on Friday in Abuja expressed concern over the increasing rate of examination malpractices. It regretted that fraudsters had made about N375bn fortune in the past 15 years (that is, N25bn per annum). The FG thus asked the National Assembly to enact a legislation making it possible for parents and employers to institute […]
THE new National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retd) said on Wednesday in Jos, Plateau State, that he had contacts of key Boko Haram leaders for possible dialogue with the group. Dasuki, who spoke in Jos during a meeting with stakeholders in Plateau, said that he was planning to meet with the group on […]
CHAIRMAN, Zenon Oil, Mr Femi Otedola is set to release 17 more audio tapes and six video tapes of what transpired between him and Farouk Lawan, the House of Representatives member in the $3 million bribery scandal. Nigerian Tribune learnt from credible sources that Nigerians will get to hear and view all the tapes by […]
National Youth Service Corps members | credits: Corps members posted to Yobe, Kaduna, Kano, Sokoto, Bornu and Bauchi states have asked the National Youth Service Corps to redeploy them from these trouble states. The corps members, who expressed sadness as they received their call-up letters for the Batch B NYSC service year, said they […]
A former governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, on Thursday lost N60m ($401,931) to the United States Government following a court ruling, premiuntimes.com reported on Friday. Alamieyeseigha lost the money when the US Department of Justice executed a forfeiture order granted by a federal district judge in the state of Massachusetts. The court granted the […]
The Chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau, Mr. Sam Saba, has said the constitution bars the bureau from making public the asset declaration forms of President Goodluck Jonathan and Vice-President Namadi Sambo. He said this in an interview in Abuja, on Friday. He said the National Assembly had yet to provide the required guidelines […]
BYKINGSLEY OMONOBI ABUJA — Investigations by Police detectives into the $620,000 oil subsidy bribe money collected by Mr Farouk Lawan from oil magnate, Mr. Femi Otedola, have unearthed a wider financial scandal. It was gathered that oil marketers who were indicted in the report recently submitted to the government by the Aigboje Aig-Imoukuede-led panel that […]
They are often blamed for any and every social disturbance in the northern part of Nigeria. In fact, to many, the Almajiri are nothing but irritants. But Hannah Hoechner, a researcher from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, UK, who spent a year in Kano working with the Almajiri, does not see them as such. […]
The Action Congress of Nigeria on Tuesday said President Goodluck Jonathan’s comments on key national issues during the Presidential Media Chat on Sunday exposed his administration’s lack of commitment to the fight against corruption, ending the Boko Haram crisis and others. In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said, […]
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