After 78 days of
political paralysis, a solution to the lingering controversy over the
power vacuum in the presidency is likely today as the Senate discuss
the process of transferring powers to Vice President Goodluck Jonathan.Today, in our
nation...
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Determined to break
the ranks of lawmakers urging the ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua to
transfer presidential powers to his deputy, Goodluck Jonathan, in line
with Section 145 of the 1999 Constitution, the leadership of the House
of Representativ...
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A journalist and human rights
activist, Richard Akinnola, has filed a suit before a Lagos High Court
sitting in Ikeja, against the Lagos State House of Assembly, asking for
a declaration by the court that the decision of the defendant to set up
a ...
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Vice president
Goodluck Jonathan has again showed that he will not tolerate any form
of indiscipline from cabinet members, as two ministers were yesterday
locked out of a meeting between the federal executive and foreign
investors.The ministers of...
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The
prevailing fuel scarcity in Kano State has continued to affect
commercial activities in the ancient city. The highly populated
commercial city has suffered from acute shortage of fuel supply for
months.Yet,
Kano and all its 44 Local Government...
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The new Director
General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Arunma Oteh,
has said that for the capital market to grow, every operator must have
zero tolerance for “sharp practices.”Speaking in Lagos
on Monday, during a visit to the N...
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The President of
the Nigeria Football Federation, Sani Lulu Abdullahi on Monday morning
shed light on why the Super Eagles coach Shuaibu Amodu was sacked and
the reason the Federation has decided to go for an expatriate Technical
Adviser for the n...
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Contrary to the
general belief that the Federal Government’s new fiscal regime for oil
and gas operations as proposed in the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB)
will significantly increase government’s revenue, International
Monetary Fund (IMF), warns t...
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Former Governor of Lagos State Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday asked the Executive Council of the Federation (ExCof) to accept Vice-president Goodluck Jonathan as acting president, saying tomorrow?s meeting would be a defining moment for the cou...
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In the spirit of sportsmanship, Labour Party (LP) candidate in the just-concluded governorship election in Anambra state, Chief Andy Uba, has paid a visit to Governor Peter Obi to congratulate him for his victory.Senate President David Mark and De...
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Hope for an enduring solution to the protracted fuel crisis in the country has been rekindled as the Federal Government has released the First Quarter 2010 Import Permit for Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), otherwise called petrol. This is coming as Af...
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The two chambers of the National Assembly have perfected plans to pass a resolution to begin to receive executive communications from Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan as acting President pending the return of President Umaru Musa Yar?Adua. THISDAY...
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Governors of the 36 states of the Federation will today storm the National Assembly to lobby the lawmakers to pass a resolution urging President Umaru Musa Yar?Adua to send a vacation letter to the assembly so that Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan...
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•Development of new fields, employment threatened
Oil rigs, the major facility for the exploitation of crude oil both onshore and offshore, have been moved out of
Nigeria’s operational territory with none deployed in the past three year...
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The aged mother of ailing President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has been moved to Saudi Arabia to be at his bedside further heightening anxiety in his Katsina home state that his health may not be getting better.
Other members of his extended fami...
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