Senate?s approval for the appointment of five Special Advisers by Acting President Goodluck Jonathan is under way. A formal request by the Acting President, which was forwarded to the Upper House on Monday, was announced yesterday on the floor by ...
Acting President, Dr. Goodluck JonathanActing President Goodluck Jonathan has requested for Senate’s approval to enable him to appoint five special advisers.Jonathan’s request, which came in the form of a letter, was read by the President of the S...
•SNG holds rally to make him substantive president
By seeking the endorsement of the Senate to appoint five senior advisers, indications are that more aides appointed by ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua may lose their jobs as Acting Preside...
The leadership of
the Nigerian Army in Plateau State should be blamed for last Sunday’s
massacre of hundreds of villagers in Jos, the Plateau State governor,
Jonah Jang, said yesterday in Abuja.Mr. Jang, a retired
Air Force officer, accusing the m...
…ask Plateau government to ensure citizens feel respected, protected
The U.S. government and human rights activists called Tuesday for Nigeria to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the deaths of more than 500 unarmed people in...
Plateau State Governor, Jonah JangPlateau State Governor Air Commodore Jonah Jang (Rtd) on Monday alleged that the army was guilty of complicity in the recent attack on a village in Jos, the state capital, which led to the death of about 500 peopl...
The Niger Delta Leaders, Elders and Stakeholders Forum on Monday asked Acting President Goodluck Jonathan to immediately sack ministers allegedly disloyal and disobedient to him.Specifically, the group asked Jonathan to remove 12 ministers, who al...
Acting President, Goodluck JonathanActing President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday sacked the National Security Adviser, Maj.-Gen. Sarki Mukhtar (rtd), and replaced him with Lt. Gen. Aliyu Gusau (rtd), who held the same position during the Olusegun O...
•Security chiefs ordered to take personal charge of security in Jos
Less than a week after the Governors’ Forum ostensibly laid down the ground rules for a limited exercise of presidential powers for the acting president, Goodluck Jonathan...
•Probe of NNPC N1.15trn subsidy claims
In this season of unusual happenings, governors of the nation’s 36 states voted yesterday to bring an end to the trillion Naira waste better known as fuel subsidy.
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ABUJA, March 9 (Reuters) - Nigeria's fuel importers claim
the government owes 880 billion naira ($6 billion) in subsidies
accrued over the past five years, highlighting the urgent need
for deregulation, the finance minister said on Tuesday.
A Federal High
Court sitting in Abuja yesterday ordered the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC) to provide proof that the chairman of the
House committee on power, Ndudi Elumelu, and eight others who are
standing trial over allegations...
A Federal High Court in Lagos this morning ordered that 6586 packs of 24×340 miligrammes of Coca-Cola canned products currently stored in the warehouse of NAFDAC be forfeited to the Minister of Health, for destruction because it is not good f...
Former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, has joined the growing number of Nigerians calling for the removal of President Umaru Musa Yar?Adua, maintaining that the only viable option out of the present political logjam in the country is for the...
Gbenga Daniel Gov. Ogun StateThe Ogun State Government on Monday raised the alarm that some unnamed persons were training suspected militants in the Ijebu axis of the state.The State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr. Sina Kawonise,...
…says deregulation is panacea
Rilwanu Lukman, minister of petroleum resources, on Tuesday, disclosed that previous efforts by the immediate past administration to address the problem of fuel scarcity in the country by issuing 18 licenses f...
•Lawmakers shut down imposition of emergency •AC blames FG over insincerity
The Sunday mayhem in Jos, Plateau State that claimed hundreds of lives on Tuesday attracted the attention of the National Assembly with the House of Representative...
The recent moves by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to bailout the power sector is worrisome, some finance experts say.The
CBN, at the conclusion of its Monetary Policy Committee meeting last
week Tuesday, resolved to raise a N500billion Special...