The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, on Wednesday led some prominent Muslims in the country to the Presidential Villa, Abuja to protest what they called their marginalisation. At a closed-door meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan, Vice -President Namadi Sambo and a few top government officials, the Sultan and the other muslim leaders specifically…
NOBEL Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka, yesterday took a swipe at the presidential system of government being practiced in Nigeria, describing it as a model that breeds corrupt leaders. He also regretted that those who were not elected bulldoze their ways into public offices under the present structure of governance. Soyinka, who was among the panelists…
NIGERIA’s next governor of the Central Bank, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, yesterday, promised to review the past expenditure profiles of the nation’s apex bank to find out why it ran a budget deficit of N266 billion in 2013. Emefiele, who was confirmed by the Senate after being screened for about two hours also unfolded his plans…
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke, SAN, said yesterday that Nigeria
THERE was a mild drama Wednesday at the venue of the on- going National Conference, when the Lamido Adamawa, Alhaji Muhammadu Barkindo Mustapha told his fellow delegates that he was prepared to secede from the present Nigeria if the country disintegrates. Noting that whereas many people in the country would have no where to run…
The jet, a Global Express XRS plane, is allegedly chartered specifically for her private and official trips overseas.A return trip on the XRS plane is said to cost taxpayers €600,000.The jet is different from the Challenger 850, which the House of Representatives said gulped N10bn in the last two years to fly the minister.Investigation by…
The Head of UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UNOCHA, said the organisation would spend 75 million dollars on humanitarian assistance in Nigeria.The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, on Tuesday said that three million people were affected and a quarter of a million displaced by insurgency in the North-East between January and March.The…
Governors of the South East geopolitical zone, yesterday, rose from their meeting in Enugu with a resolve to jointly tackle various challenges being faced by people of the zone. Briefing newsmen at the end of the meeting, Chairman of the South East Governors’ Forum and Abia State Governor, Theodore Orji said the governors discussed how…
Shareholders of the defunct Intercontinental Bank Plc, yesterday, dragged the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi ,before a Federal High Court in Abuja, accusing him of complicity in an alleged N50billion fraud. In a suit they entered through their lawyer, Chief Chris Uche, SAN, the plaintiffs, including Abdullahi…
AS the crème de la crème of the Nigerian intelligentsia are currently gathered in Abuja to craft a new roadmap for the country’s political future, there is a very popular option for solving the country’s problem that you can be sure they will not be discussing because many of them are politicians. That option regularly…