The Federal Government yesterday threatened to stop the allowances of ex-militants in the Niger Delta region if they fail to abide by the code of conduct they entered into at the Obubra Camp. The code of conduct was meant to keep the ex-militants in check when they leave the country for vocational training overseas. The […]
The Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Gen Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), yesterday accused the Jonathan/Sambo Campaign Organisation of planning to assassinate his running mate, Pastor Tunde Bakare. A Second Republic Senator and Deputy Coordinator of the now rested Jonathan/Sambo Campaign Organisation, North-Central Zone, Walid Jibrin, had allegedly said in a newspaper report […]
FORMER Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, said, yesterday, that he was yet to seal a deal to support President Goodluck Jonathan in the forthcoming presidential election, affirming that he was still open to supporting the President or any of his major rivals. The former Head of State who was an aspirant on the platform of […]
The Federal Government has said oil-producing communities will earn about N1.1 billion as annual dividend payments from oil revenues as part of incentives in the much-anticipated Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) which is expected to be passed by the National Assembly by Thursday, next week. This is intended to end the perennial crisis and violence in […]
The proposed National Minimum Wage of N18,000 Tuesday received the legislative seal of the upper chamber of the National Assembly, as senators unanimously passed the bill “for an Act to Amend the National Minimum Wage Act to Provide for a Revised National Minimum Wage into law.” Subject to the concurrence of the lower legislative […]
Worried by the reports of repression of protesters by government forces in Libya leading to hundreds of deaths, the Nuhu Ribadu Campaign Organisation as well as the chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, have called on the Federal Government to immediately evacuate Nigerians from the North African country. A […]
The hide and seek between the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and son of the late Head of State, Mohammed Abacha over the governorship slot of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Kano State is over. Specifically, INEC told a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja that indeed, Abacha, is the governorship candidate of […]
Ahead of the April general elections, Igbo leaders have warned that it is dangerous for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its presidential candidate, President Goodluck Jonathan, to go into the polls without returning the position of the party’s national chairman to the South East geo-political zone. The Igbo leaders said yesterday that the president […]
The Senate yesterday approved death sentence for terrorists whose acts resulted in the death of Nigerians as it passed the Anti-terrorism Bill 2010. But the anti-money laundering bill failed to scale through as the third reading was shelved till the next legislative day. President Goodluck Jonathan sent three reminders to the National Assembly, urging members […]
Former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has totally denied reports making the rounds that he and the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN’s) presidential flag bearer, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu were on collision course. He said the reports were from cunningly creative writers who, not only wanted to hatch a conflict between them, but preferred […]
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