Minority Leader Reacts… Says Court Turned Law On Its Head, …APC Will Appeal Judgment
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. Minority Leader of House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila has described Monday ruling of the Federal High Court in Abuja that ordered decampee APC members to vacate their seats More...
Resign Now…Court Orders 37 Decampee Reps
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. The Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday ordered the thirty-seven former members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to resign their seats at the House of Representatives for defecting More...
Conference Adopts 70 percent Voting Option, Says N7 Billion Budget Not Enough
Delegates at the ongoing National Conference on Monday resolved its week long disagreement over voting formula as it endorsed the proposal of its 50man consensus group which put the voting requirement for conference More...
Bloody Sunday At DSS Hqrts, 20 Suspects Died, 3 Servicemen Stabbed In Jail Break
The Sunday morning jail break by detained Boko Haram members has resulted in the death of 20 sect members and 1 service men with 3 other men severely stabbed by the escaping suspects at the State Security Service More...
Senator Abatemi-Usman Lauds The Passage of Disability Bill
The senate yesterday passed a bill which seeks to ensure full integration of persons with disabilities into the society even as the sponsor Senator Nurudeen Abatemi-Usman applauded his colleagues for its passage. The More...
Update On Counter Terrorism Military Campaign In North East
Joint Information Centre Counter Terrorism Campaign North-East Nigeria c/o Defence Headquarters ABUJA More...
Dangote Cement Records 13.3m Tonnes Sales, Pays N7 Dividend In 2013
Cement manufacturing giant, Dangote Cement Plc has declared its 2013 financials record hitting an upsurge in its Nigerian sales volume to the tune of 13.3million tonnes leading to a 40.6 per cent increase in profit More...
National Conference Deadlocks On Voting Formula…Consensus Group Named As Lamido Adamawa Threatens A Walk Out
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. In three consecutive sitting, attempts by delegates at the National Conference to forge a common position on the thorny issue how to reach a consensus on voting pattern deadlocked, More...
Intercontinental Bank: Akingbola Plans A Come Back, Lobbies Presidency
… Witnesses Catalogue How He Stole Billions of Naira After what seems like a relief from his chains of legal battles home and abroad over allegations of fraudulent practices in his capacity as the Managing More...
Conference In Another Stormy Session
The National Conference holding in Abuja witnessed another stormy session on Tuesday over debate on voting pattern for the conferees, even as it postponed deliberation on the volatile topic for further consultations More...
Senate Plans Live T.V Screening For Emefiele, Bulkachuwa
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. The senate has scheduled the screening of the two nominees by President Goodluck Jonathan’s nominees for the positions of Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and More...
UPDATE ON COUNTER TERRORISM CAMPAIGN
Joint Information Centre Counter Terrorism Campaign North-East Nigeria c/o Defence Headquarters ABUJA DHQ/ABJ/901/32/DDI More...
Confab Proposes 20 Standing Committees …Delegates Split Over Chairmanship, Voting pattern
…Adoption of rules and proceedings inconclusive …Women delegates cry foul Delegates at the on-going National Conference on Monday were sharply divided over the voting pattern and appointment of the Chairmen More...
PRESS RELEASE
Joint Information Centre Counter Terrorism Campaign North-East Nigeria c/o Defence Headquarters ABUJA JIC/CTC/NE/14/01 21March, More...
Gunmen Attack David Mark Convoy In Orlu
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. Senate President, David Mark, yesterday escaped death, as gunmen attacked his convoy in Orlu Senatorial District of Imo State, on his way to the burial ceremony of late business mogul, More...
Agitation For State Police Gains Momentum In The Senate
With the spate of killings and the seeming helplessness of the Nigerian Police, the Senate may reconsider its earlier stance against the establishment of State Police in Nigeria if its current position is More...
Jonathan And Zero Allocation For Ajaokuta Steel
By Michael Jegede “One thing that is dear to Nigerians is the Ajaokuta Steel Complex and until we revive that complex, we cannot talk about Vision 20:2020. This is because for you to play big globally, you More...
Ekiti Guber Poll: Bamidele Is Our Only Candidate -Labour Party
National Chairman of Labour Party(LP), Mr. Dan Nwanyanwu has said that Hon. Opeyemi Bamidele is the only aspirant that has purchased the governorship form of the party in Ekiti State, even as he declared the party More...
Senate Prescribes 5year Jail Term For Human Traffickers
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday prescribed five year jail term and a minimum fine of N1million for anyone found guilty of human trafficking.The Senate’s decision was More...
Statement Regarding Purchases of Treasury Securities and Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities
Press Release Release Date: March 19, 2014 For immediate release Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in January indicates that growth in economic activity slowed during the winter More...
Jonathan Cancels Immigration Interview, Offers Automatic Slots To Victims
Amid criticisms of poor handling, President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered the immediate cancellation of the last Saturday recruitment exercise by the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) in which 19 persons dead and More...
Confab Embarks On Recess To Enable Delegates Learn Rules Of Engagement
National Conference yesterday proceeded on a one week vacation, to enable members study rules of procedures to be debated and adopted for the confab. The members are also to study President Goodluck Jonathan’s More...
Senate Orders Probe Into NIS Interview Tragedy, APC Caucus Demands Sack of Minister, Emergency On Employment
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. The Senate has ordered an investigation into the death of over 19 persons in last Saturday’s Nigerian Immigration Service recruitment exercise. The Senate on Tuesday mandated More...
130th IPU Geneva: Mark Urges World Body To Create Stable Political Environment To Halt Conflicts, Wars.
President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, has urged nations across the world to renew commitment and resolve to create stable political environments in which peace will thrive and end the incessant wars ravaging More...
Senate APC Caucus To Jonathan: Sack Interior Minister, Declare Emergency On Unemployment Situation
PRESS STATEMENT BY THE ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS (APC) CAUCUS IN THE SENATE ON WORRISOME DEVELOPMENTS ON THE UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM This Statement becomes necessary in the light of the latest tragedy last Saturday More...
Confab: I Have No Hidden Agenda – Jonathan Insists …APC, APGA Seats Vacant
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday stated for the umpteenth time that his decision to organize a National Conference at this point in time is devoid of any hidden agenda. Rather he More...
Military Kills Over 200 Insurgents, Captures 50 Alive In Borno Attack
The Joint Military Task Force operating in the Nigeria’s north-east region yesterday dealt a fatal blow on the Boko Haram terrorists killing over 200 of its members in a swoop. The Boko Haram sects engaged More...
Sanusi, The New York Times and Intellectual Racism
By Sufuyan Ojeifo Suspended Central Bank of Nigeria governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, is a man that can put a canary to shame. Even when he has nothing new or meaningful to say, he must seek out a journalist More...
I Never Said My People Will Suffer If I Don’t Return To The Senate – Ndoma-Egba
The Senate Majority Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba has refuted recent media reports quoting him as saying that members of his constituency will suffer, if he is not returned in 2015 for the fourth term as More...
You Cannot Appoint Auditors For NNPC: Senate Tells Jonathan
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. The Chairman, Senate Committee on Finance, Senator Ahmed Makarfi on Thursday disclosed that it was unconstitutional for President Goodluck Jonathan to appoint auditors for Nigeria More...
ATTACK ON ORIENT PETROLEUM RESOURCES Plc’s FACILITY: KOGI STATE GOVERNMENT REPLIES ANAMBRA STATE
ATTACK ON ORIENT PETROLEUM RESOURCES Plc’s FACILITY: KOGI STATE GOVERNMENT REPLIES ANAMBRA STATE …says Anambra Lied and betrayed a working understanding. …demands urgent investigationThe Government More...
Navy Expresses Worry Over Unreleased N4.5billion Vote
The Nigerian Navy has expressed concern that it might breach the contractual agreement it entered for the supply of Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs) if the outstanding N4.5 billion capital vote for the service in More...
Lack Of Transparency Promotes Corruption In Nigeria -Ex British Foreign Secretary
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. For the war against corruption in Nigeria to be fought and won by government and the people, there must be transparency in governance at all levels and incorruptible judiciary to give More...
No Provision For Mass Housing In 2014 Budget – FG
… Dangote’s N1 billion offer is no longer a donation but loan, says ministry official. By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. Despite increasing housing problem, the Federal Government said on Tuesday that there More...
‘Those Behind Benue Killings Have A Hidden Agenda’ – Gemade
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. Former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP and Benue Senator, Mr. Barnabas Gemade has described the last weekend attack and murder of some indigenes allegedly by More...
Sales Of Refineries Best For Nigeria
Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Allison – Madueke, has said that the privatization of the nation’s refineries remained the best way to tackle the problems in the petroleum sector, explaining More...
MASSOB Behind Enugu Govt House Attack -Police…they are not our members -Uwazurike
Enugu State Police Command has said that the last Saturday on the Government House in Enugu was carried out by members of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign state of Biafra MASSOB. The State Commissioner More...
Developing Story: Malaysia Plane Lost Off Southern Vietnam
The search has continued for the Malaysian plane that went off the radar on Saturday. The plane departed Kuala Lumpur airport and was scheduled to arrive Beijing by 6.30pm Beijing time. The flight MH 370 reportedly More...
Presidency Clears 492 Delegates For Confab, Appoints 3 Assistance Secretaries
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. The Presidency has approved the appointment of the 492 delegates for the National Conference scheduled to commence next week. In a statement by the Secretary to the Government of the More...
Auditor-General Chickens Out Of NNPC Probe, Says It Lacks Power
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja Like the two anti-corruption agencies of government that appeared before the Senate last week, the Auditor-General of the Federation, Mr. Samuel Ukura has said that his office lacks More...
APC Manifesto: Our Mission For a New Nigeria
NEW PARTY FOR A NEW NIGERIA ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS OUR MISSION The All Progressives Congress is committed to a Nigeria that achieves its full potential and promise. We work towards a nation t-hat is economically More...
PDP Accuses APC Leaders Of Collecting N85 Billion Contract From Sanusi
The Peoples Democratic Party PDP has fired back at the opposition All Progressive Congress APC, describing its leaders as patrons of corruption.Specifically, PDP accused APC leaders of benefiting from More...
AN OPEN LETTER TO PROFESSOR WOLE SOYINKA -By Sadiq Abacha
Sadiq Abubakar, son of the late military dictator responded to recent comments by Professor Wole Soyinka on the award of National Honour on his late father by President Goodluck Jonathan. Read: If you want to think, More...
NNPC Intensifies Search For Crude Oil In Northern Nigeria, Says Scarcity Will End This Week
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. The hope of finding deposits of crude oil in commercial quantity in some states of the Northern part of the country has not been lost, as the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation More...
CBN Set To Liquidate 83 Micro Finance Banks – NDIC Boss
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. Managing Director of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, Alhaji Umaru Ibrahim, yesterday disclosed that the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN has approved the liquidation More...
Breaking News…Jonathan Sacks Bolaji Abdullahi, More Heads May Roll
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. President Goodluck Jonathan has fired minister of sports Mr. Bolaji Abdullahi. Sources told Newsinvestigators that more are likely to be sacked in the reorganisation that is being carried More...
Jonathan Fires FAAN, NCAA helmsmen, reorganises Aviation ministry
President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the appointment of Mr. Saleh Dumona as the new helmsman for the Federal Aviation Authority . He is to replace Mr. George Uriesi as Managing-Director. The President More...
Jonathan Swears In New Ministers Today, Plans Cabinet Reshuffle
There are strong indications that President Goodluck Jonathan may swear in the 11 new ministers recently approved by the Senate today just as he planned to re-position the team to enable him achieve strategic More...
Dangote ranks among top 25 on Forbes’ list, new billionaires emerge from Algeria, Tanzania, Uganda
The 2014 Forbes Billionaires’ List has ranked the President/Chief Executive, the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, 23rd in a list of 1,645 richest people in the world, with a personal fortune of $25billion. Dangote More...
Trouble In Nigeria (Views From Abroad)
…Now for the fallout The president’s decision to get rid of the central-bank governor is bad new WHEN President Goodluck Jonathan suspended Lamido Sanusi, the governor of Nigeria’s central bank, on February More...
Press Release: UPDATE ON COUNTER-TERRORISTS CAMPAIGN
DEFENCE HEADQUARTERS MINISTRY OF DEFENCE P M B 309 GARKI – ABUJA DHQ/ABJ/901/32/DDI 2 March 2014 PRESS RELEASE UPDATE ON COUNTER-TERRORISTS CAMPAIGN AIR AND LAND OPERATIONS CONTINUE More...
FG To Announce Chairman, Secretariat Staff, Others For Confab Today
Baring any last minutes change, the Federal Government has concluded plans to announce the secretariat for the proposed National Conference scheduled to commence next week. Already, the government had settled for More...
Senate President Canvasses Stringent Measures Against Kidnappers
…wants Nigerians to enlist in the battle against terrorists By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja President of the Senate Senator David Mark has renewed his call for tough measures against kidnappers, saying More...
Pipeline Vandalism: Kuku Calls For A Return To Pipeline Protection Program
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. The Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Mr Kinsley kuku has urged for the reintroduction of the Pipeline Protection Program suspended in 2012 as a measure to stem More...
