About 100 million Nigerians live in destitution, the World Bank has said. The World Bank Country Director for Nigeria, Marie-Francoise Marie-Nelly, said this at the bank’s Country Programme Portfolio Review in Enugu on Tuesday. She said that the bank’s ongoing commitment to Nigeria stood at $5.34bn. According to the World Bank boss, the number of…
National leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Gen. Muhamadu Buhari and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday said the party is ready to take power in 2015. They urged the leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to plan ahead of the 2015 general elections. The APC leaders spoke yesterday in Benin, the Edo…
Former Commonwealth Secretary General, Emeka Anyaoku, has said the proposed National Conference should be used as a platform to evolve a workable federal structure for the country. Anyaoku said this in Lagos yesterday at the third Goody Jidenma Public Lecture, entitled: “The Practice of True Federalism in Africa, the Nigerian Experience and the Way Forward,”…
The bid by Ojukwu Transport Limited to recover one of its properties, comprising a two-storey detached house at No 4, Macpherson Avenue, Ikoyi, Lagos, suffered a setback yesterday as a Lagos High Court stuck out the originating summons filed by the company. Delivering judgement in the suit filed by the company against persons unknown/ the…
Kano State Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, yesterday accused President Goodluck Jonathan of planning to use the planned national conference to cause confusion that could lead to the failure of the 2015 general elections. Also, the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, insisted that the proposed national dialogue should end at least six months before the 2015 general…
Four people were feared killed on Monday when members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra clashed with a joint team of security men in Onitsha, Anambra State. But while MASSOB claimed that the clash was an attack on its members because of the decision of the group to withdraw…
Federal Government has demanded an unreserved apology from the Indian authorities over the death of a Nigerian,
Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State says his longing to have a united country prompted his decision to recall non-indigenes sacked from Abia civil service. He said this on Saturday, at the Enugu State Correspondents’ Chapel Press Week. Orji called on Igbo people to put behind events that led to the sacking of the affected…
The Secretary, Presidential Advisory Committee on National Conference, Dr. Akilu Sani-Indabawa, has said the committee has not received any submission calling for the ‘break-up’ of Nigeria. He stated this on Sunday in Zaria in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, shortly after members of the committee visited the Emir of Zazzau, Dr. Shehu…
Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen on Saturday attacked five farming villages in Benue State, killing six people and burning many houses, the police said on Sunday. “Five Agatu villages were attacked yesterday (Saturday) by suspected Fulani cattle herdsmen who killed six people,” police spokesman Daniel Ezeala told AFP. He said “many houses” were razed…