Poor Funding Threatens Completion Of East-West Road
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja The Minister of Niger Delta Ministry, Architect Danus Ishaku said on Friday that it was no longer feasible to complete the East-West federal road project this year because lack of fund. Former More...
Full Text of President Goodluck Jonathan Speech Marking the Centenary Celebration
Address by His Excellency, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR On the Occasion of the Centenary Conference on the Theme: “Human Security, Peace and Development: Agenda for the 21st Century” Thursday, 27th February, More...
We Are Not Competent To Probe NNPC – Says EFCC, ICPC
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC, have said that the anti-corruption agencies lack the competence to probe allegation More...
How Police Commander Conspired With Criminals to Siphon Crude Oil – EFCC Witness
A witness in the on-going trial of Dodo Chilla Bulus, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, has told the court how the commander of Task Force on Pipeline Vandalism conspired with criminals to break crude oil More...
Inadequate Funding For Police May Affect Police Performance In 2015 Elections – Senator Igwe
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja The Senate Committee on Police Affairs has warned that inadequate funding in the 2014 budgetary allocations to the Police may impact negatively on the conduct of the 2015 elections. Chairman More...
STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE
STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE PRESIDENT JONATHAN CONDEMNS KILLING OF COLLEGE STUDENTS, SAYS FG WILL CONTINUE TO VIGOROUSLY PROSECUTE WAR AGAINST TERROR President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has received with immense More...
Minister Under Fire Over Rural Telephoney Project
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja The Minister of Communication, Mrs Omobola Johnson came under fire yesterday in the senate over the long delay in the take off of the national rural telephoney project despite huge More...
Ondo State Assembly Speaker Died Of Cancer
The Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Samuel Adesina Ajayi, is dead. A statement by the Secretary to the State Government, Dr. Rotimi Adelola, said the death occurred in the course of a protracted More...
Tambuwal, Obasanjo In Secret Parley
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, on Sunday paid a visit to Abeokuta where he met with former President Olusegun Obasanjo at his residence. Tambuwal who failed to show up at the More...
Senate Minority Leader Condemns Sanusi’s Suspension
The nation has yet again been confronted with another act by the President, which is inimical to good governance and the rule of law with the illegal suspension from office of the Governor of Central Bank, More...
Slain Banker: Court Condemns Arowolo To Die By Hanging
Justice Lateefat Okunu of the Ikeja High Court has sentenced Akolade Arowolo to death by hanging for killing his banker wife, Titilayo Omozeze. Arowolo was said to have murdered his wife on June 24, 2011 at their More...
STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE
PRESIDENT JONATHAN APPOINTS NEW EXECUTIVE SECRETARY FOR PPPRA President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has approved the appointment of Mr. Farouk A. Ahmed as Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory More...
Report Of The Financial Reporting Council Of Nigeria That Indicts Sanusi
The particulars of the infractions against Sanusi are by Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRCN): Persistent refusal and/or negligence to comply with the Public Procurement Act in the procurement practices More...
Jonathan Is Paying Lip-Service To Steel Development –Sen. Abatemi-Usman
Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Nurudeen Abatemi-Usman, has said that President Goodluck Jonathan has not shown enough commitment to steel development in the country. According More...
APC Not Against Kerosene Subsidy -APC Senators
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. The All Progressive Congress (APC) Senators in the senate has declared that the party is not against kerosene subsidy but is opposed to the country spending N700 million daily on subsidy More...
Emefiele, Adelabu To Replace Sanusi, Lemo
Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Zenith Bank Plc has been named as the replacement for the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN, Mr Lamido Sanusi, just as the Executive Director More...
Sanusi Suspended, Dr Sarah Alade Is Acting CBN Gov
…Names of Successors Sent To Senate The Governor of Central Bank (CBN), Mr. Sanusi Lamido has been suspended from office. Presidency quoted reports of the financial reporting council of Nigeria and investigation More...
Mark Tasks Committees To Expedite Work On PIB, Malabu Oil Deal
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. The Senate has ordered its committees handling the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) and the controversial sale of OPL 245 to Malabu Oil to expedite work in order to lay the matters to More...
Nigeria Plans Friendly Match Against Portugal
The Chairman of the Nigeria Footbal Federation NFF technical committee, Mr. Chris Green has said that, Nigeria is planning a World Cup warm-up against Portugal. This is in addition to next month’s friendly More...
Obasanjo: The Pontius Pilate
By Buruju Kashamu INTRODUCTION Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is quick to point a finger at people, forgetting that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. He fittingly plays Pontius Pilate who seeks More...
Reps Urges Jonathan To Relocate Army Hqtrs To Borno
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. The House of Representatives has directed President Goodluck Jonathan to relocate the Nigerian Army Headquarters to Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, as a measure to urgently tackle More...
Jonathan Appoints New Chief Of Staff
The Presidency has announced the appointment of Brig-General Jones Oladehinde Arogbofa (rtd.) as the new Chief of Staff to President Goodluck Jonathan. Arowogbofa replaced Mark Oghiadohme who resigned last week More...
Mark Mourns Balat, Says He Was A Shinning Light
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. President of the Senate, Sen. David Mark has mourned the death his former colleagues Senator Isaiah who died on Tuesday at the National Hospital Abuja, describing him as an astute politician, More...
OFFENSIVE AGAINST TERRORISTS CONTINUES -ARMY
DEFENCE HEADQUARTERS MINISTRY OF DEFENCE P M B 309 GARKI – ABUJA DHQ/ABJ/901/32/DDI More...
Boko Haram: Army Urges Public For Timely Information On Insurgents
The Nigerian Army has called on Nigerians to provide timely information to security agencies in order to forestall attacks by the Boko Haram Islamic sect. The said it has stepped up its attack and surveillance More...
National Confab: Why APC States Make U-Turn
Fact emerged yesterday on the All Progressive Congress ((APC) controlled-states latest decision to attend the forthcoming National Confab despite its earlier opposition stance, as it reasoned that its absence would More...
Oil Marketers Deny Bribing NNPC Officials
The National President of Independent Petroluem Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN),Alhaji Aminu Abdul kadir has described allegations that its members bribed officials of the Oil ministry as false and politically More...
Don’t Leave Politics For Evil People – Obasanjo Tells Christians
Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has urged Christians to participate actively in politics, saying to do otherwise is to allow evil people take charge of the country. Obasanjo dispelled the notion that politics More...
EFCC Vows To Secure More Convictions This Year
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has said expressed its readiness to improve on its scorecard of 177 convictions it recorded last year, saying directive for court to expedite action on all corruption More...
FG Upgrades 6 Training Centres Into Tertiary Institutions
The Federal Government has approved the upgrading of six Federal Training Centres to tertiary institutions to offer Monotechnic programmes. In a statement signed by the Director of Communications, Office of More...
PDP Vs Reps: Feb 21 Fixed For Adoption Of Summons
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday fixed Feb. 21 for the adoption of originating summons and for ruling on the preliminary objections canvassed by counsel to parties in the suit filed by the Peoples More...
Sanusi Insists $10.8billion Is Unremitted …He Is Crying Foul Where None Exists -NNPC
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC) has maintained that the alleged missing 10.8 billion dollars was not missing afterall but that the concerned government agencies were More...
Ilaje/Ese-Odo Bye-Election: Group Urges INEC To Revise Voter’s Register
A group known as Progressive Initiative Forum,(PIF), has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to look into allegations of falsification of voter’s register in Ondo state before More...
PDP Denies Bribery Allegations…Says APC Is Suffering From Diminishing Returns
Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has denied allegations by opposition All Progressive Congress (APC), that it had induced federal lawmakers with millions of dollar for them to defect More...
Breaking News: Jonathan Sacks Oduah, Orubebe, 2Others
Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. Barely 48 hours after the sack of the his Chief of Staff, report reaching us indicates that President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked four of his cabinet ministers. Though, the federal More...
Customs Arrest Passenger At Lagos Airport For Hiding $1.9 Million
A passenger, Mr. Ani Paulinus Onyeka was on Tuesday arrested by officials of the Nigeria Customs Service at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport for illegal possession of $ 1, 909,140 hidden inside his luggage. Onyeka More...
Chinese man, Dep. Gov Aide kidnap in Abia
By Victor Udoh, Port Harcourt A Chinese national, identified as Tang Kalu,his wife and one Achilefu, an aide to the former deputy governor of Abia State, have been kidnapped the southeast state of Nigeria. Tang, More...
Drama In Senate As Saraki Dares Mark
Leader of the decampee senators Sen. Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday made a futile attempt to announce the controversial defection letters to the public when he read out names of his fellow senators in a point of order. However, More...
Reps: PDP Regains Majority As APC Loses 5members to PDP
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. ..as PDP loses one member to APC The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has regained its majority status in the House of Representatives as five of its members in the lower chamber on Tuesday More...
FIFA World Cup 2014: World Travel Signs Deal With Brazil Hospitality Giant
Ahead of the FIFA world Cup fiesta coming up in Brazil in June, World Travel Shop, an indigenous travels and tours company has signed a working agreement with Match Connections, Brazil’s biggest consignee More...
Oghiadomhe Resigned, Not Sacked -Abati
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, has said that former Chief of Staff to the President, Mr. Mike Oghiadohme resigned from his job on his own volition. Abati said the More...
Breaking News: Jonathan Sacks Chief of Staff ?
Unconfirmed report just reaching us said the Chief of Staff to the President Mr. Mike Oghiadomhe has been relieved of his appointment. Information on the news of his sack is still sketchy. Detail report coming shortly. More...
CNPP Calls For Independent Inquiry Into NNPC Accounts
The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, has called for an independent inquiry into the accounts of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, from 1999 to 2013. CNPP said an independent audit More...
Omisore Flags Off Governorship Campaign In Style, says Aregbesola’s a tyrant
Senator Iyiola Omisore on Saturday at Freedom Park, Oshogbo, Osun State capital flagged off his campaign to contest for the state’s governorship election under the People’s Democratic Party, PDP. Omisore while More...
2015: Yakassai Group Can’t Deliver North To Jonathan – Junaid Mohammed
Second Republic lawmaker, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, yesterday, dismissed as non-existent northern groups parading themselves as the major political platforms whose support President Goodluck Jonathan needed to win the More...
Yakassai’s Northern Elders Council Endorses Jonathan For 2015
The Northern Elders Council (NEC), a new sociopolitical group headed by former presidential adviser, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, on Thursday pledged to back President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015. The group commended President More...
Asari Dokubo Released
Ex-Niger Delta militant Mr. Asari Dokubo who was arrested by the State Security Service SSS earlier today over his incisive comments that the Niger Delta would militants would make Nigeria ungovernable should More...
Jonathan Appoints New Advisers, DG’s Others, Agwai, Niboro Make List
By Olusegun Emannuel, Abuja. The Presidency has announced the appointment two new special advisers and directors general for the Nigerian Television Authority, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria as well as the More...
2014 budget: APC Reps Are Blocking Economic Oxygen -Maku
Urges Nigerians To Hold Them Accountable For Their Action By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. The Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, has said that the move by the All Progressive Congress APC members to stall the More...
Defection Saga: Decampee Senators Await Mark’s Verdict Next Tuesday
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. The 11 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senators who have indicated their intention to quit their party for the All Progressive Congress (APC) on Wednesday, yielded to arguments from their More...
Unpaid Pension Arrears: Edo Pensioner Gives Feb. 14 Deadline To Commit Suicide
Mr. Denis Amayo, a 57-year old man, has vowed to committ suicide on 14 February this year, should Edo state Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, fails to pay his eight-month pension arrears.  Amayo, a father of four More...
2014 Budget Passes Second Reading At Senate
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. The 2014 Appropriation Bill has scaled second reading in the Senate after a week of heated debate on its general principles and provisions. There has been fears that the N4.6Trillion More...
Sanusi Recants, Insists $20 Billion Dollar Is Missing
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja The Governor of the Central Bank Mr. Sanusi Lamido, has offered fresh insight into the allegedly missing oil money, insisting that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC cannot More...
US, France Earmark N11bn For Women And Children Hospital In Abuja
The American Hospital Limited, Abuja, General Electric (GE) Health-care (USA) and Edifice Capital of France have earmarked a sum of $73 million (N11 billion) to build an American Specialist Hospital in Abuja, Nigeria’s More...
House Demands Clarifications On 50 Probing Questions, Summons Okonjo Iweala Again
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. The House of Representatives has summoned the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for further questioning on her responses to the 50 probing questions bothering on sundry economics More...
Breaking News: Atiku Decamps Again, Joins APC
Former Vice President, Mr. Atiku Abubakar has finally resigned from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and formally joined All Progressive Congress APC. Abubakar’s resignation came after weeks of speculations More...
SUNDAY MUSINGS: On this Matter of the National Conference
Mobolaji E. Aluko, PhD alukome@gmail.com February 2, 2014 My People: The Federal Government recently announced the modalities for the much-awaited National Conference, following the submission of the More...
Mark Vows To Canvass Constitutional Role For Traditional Rulers
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, yesterday vowed to continue to advocate for the inclusion of constitutional roles for the traditional rulers in the constitution. The More...
Mark Commends Super Eagles’s Victory Over Zimbabwe
The President of the Nigerian Senate, Sen. David Mark has commended the Super Eagles of Nigeria for the superlative performance at the CHAN 2014 competition in South Africa. The Nigerian representatives this evening More...
Baby Delivered Aboard Keke NAPEP In Aba
A woman pregnant woman in Aba, capital of Abia state in Nigeria has been delivered of a bouncing baby boy aboard a tricycle, popularly known as “Keke Napep” in when she was suddenly thrown into a state of More...
PDP Crisis Is Coming To An End -Mark
President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, has said that the crisis plaguing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is abating even as he called on the party leaders and supporters across the nation to work towards More...
