SECOND Republic Vice President, Dr Alex Ekwueme and iconic constitutional lawyer, Professor Ben Nwabueze (SAN) have declined to lead the Igbo delegation to the forthcoming National Conference. Igbo leaders mounting pressure on the two leaders said the duo, who are intellectual giants and vastly experienced in the act of constitution making would, apart from marshalling…
The people of Enugu State, especially the business class, have continued to lament the epileptic supply currently being experienced in
Senate By Henry Umoru & JOHNBOSCO AGBAKWURU ABUJA—THE Presidency explained, yesterday, why the nation’s security forces have found it difficult to completely flush out from their hideouts, members of the Boko Haram sect, who have massacred innocent people and massively destroyed property in the North Eastern part of the country. It admitted that the situation…
Despite the inability of the many Nigerians to buy kerosene at the official N50 per litre, it was disclosed yesterday that the country had spent a whopping N1 trillion over the past four years to subsidise the domestic product. Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha, made the disclosure while declaring open an investigative hearing on…
ABUJA — THE Senate, yesterday, confirmed former National Security Adviser, Gen. Mohammed Aliyu Gusau, former Nigerian High Commissioner to Ghana, Musiliu Obanikoro and former governor of Adamawa State, Mr. Boni Haruna, from Zamfara, Lagos and Adamawa states as ministers. Former Nigerian Ambassador to China, Aminu Wali, former Majority Leader, House of Representatives, Mohammed Wakil, Mrs.…
Former Head of State and Chairman, Board of Patrons of the Arewa Consultative Forum, General Yakubu Gowon, on Tuesday bemoaned Nigeria’s unending woes and said the country could only overcome its challenges through the unity of the citizens.Gowon, who spoke at the inauguration of the new officers of ACF,said no nation could thrive on the…
President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed Brigadier-General Jones Oladehinde Arogbofa as his new chief Of staff. Presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati, said this in a statement today. Jonathan last Monday in controversial circumstances sacked Mike Oghiadomhe as his chief of staff. Abati said Arogbofa’s appointment is with immediate effect, adding that he has taken up his new post at the…
Some 45 directors at the federal ministry of foreign affairs have colluded with the highly corrupt Attorney General of the federation, Mohammed Bello Adoke and the supervising minister of foreign affairs, Professor Viola Onwuliri to frustrate their retirement from plum foreign ambassadorial positions in a situation that may yet redefine retirement of federal civil servants…
As the presidency begins to receive lists of delegates’ names for the national conference tomorrow, the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has indicated that former Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, is likely to lead other 14 people from the region to the conference. Ohanaeze Ndigbo Secretary-General, Dr. Joe Nworgu, who disclosed this to Daily…
Former Head of State and Chairman, Board of Patrons of the Arewa Consultative Forum, General Yakubu Gowon, on Tuesday bemoaned Nigeria’s unending woes and said the country could only overcome its challenges through the unity of the citizens. Gowon, who spoke at the inauguration of the new officers of ACF,said no nation could thrive on…