President Jonathan no compensation for Boko Haram victims
President Goodluck Jonathan declared, yesterday, that the Federal Government would not pay compensation to victims of Boko Haram’s atrocities.
Pressure Mounts On Lagos Govt To Prosecute Gov Obi For Money Laundering
A coalition of civil rights organizations in the country is mounting pressure on the Lagos State government to initiate an investigation into the 255m naira intercepted by the police on Sunday, May 31, 2009, in the office of Next International, the private firm of Anambra State governor Peter Obi located at 7, Aerodrome Road, Apapa…
Nigerians not safe in India, FG tells India
Nigeria told India, yesterday, that it fears for the safety of its nationals in the resort state of Goa after one of its citizens was slain and a local legislator compared Nigerians to “cancer.” Tensions have been rising in the tiny, palm-fringed state since a Nigerian man was stabbed to death last week in a…
Confab Group asks Yoruba to use Obasanjo as rallying point
Yoruba people have been urged to use former President Olusegun Obasanjo as a rallying point to aggregate their views during the National Conference proposed by President Goodluck Jonathan. A group within the Ekiti State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, the Ekiti PDP Reformers Forum, also cautioned fifth columnists against causing rift and disaffection between…
Nigeria won’t withdraw from ICC –President Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday assured the President of the International Criminal Court, ICC, Mr. Sang-Hyun Song, that Nigeria was not considering withdrawing from the jurisdiction of the court. Speaking at an audience with the ICC president at the State House, Jonathan, however, said while Nigeria still maintained its endorsement and commitment to the guiding principles…
Buhari, Tinubu invite Amaechi to join APC
A former Head of State, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and ex-Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday renewed their calls on Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi to join the All Progressives Congress. Buhari and Tinubu, who led a team of top APC officials to Port Harcourt for a rally, described Amaechi as an asset to…
Ex-Finance Minister, Okongwu slams FG over privatisation of power sector
Enugu— Former Minister of Finance and National Planning, Dr. Chu S.P. Okongwu has criticised the poor handling of the privatisation of the power sector, saying that what the Federal Government actually did was to hand over public assets to their friends in the name of privatisation. Okongwu who spoke in an interview with Vanguard in…
Anambra renames state varsity after Ojukwu
AWKA—THE Anambra State Government, yesterday, renamed the Anambra State-owned University, with campuses at Uli and Igbariam as Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University. Governor Peter Obi, who announced this at a ceremony to mark the posthumous 80th birthday of the late Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chikwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu at the permanent site of the university at Igbariam, also issued…
Fire guts 25-storey Great Nigeria House
LAGOS — NO fewer than three persons were, yesterday, injured in a fire that engulfed a 25-storey building on 45 and 47 Martins Street, Lagos Island Local Government Area, owned by the Great Nigeria Insurance Company Limited, popularly called Great Nigeria House. More than 200 traders occupying the building were displaced, as business activities around…
North should decline participation in national dialogue
Former Military Administrator of Kano and Sokoto States, Brigadier-General Ahmed Daku (rtd), has called on the North to decline participation in the proposed national