THE controversy surrounding the introduction of new number plates/driving licence continued on Monday as the Federal Road Safety Corps and other stakeholders disagreed over the relevance of the scheme. The FRSC insisted that the new scheme had modern security features and would enhance safe motoring, with the introduction of owner’s bio-data and traceable identification marks. [...]
LAGOS – Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji and his Personal Assistant, Oyebode Atoyebi, have asked a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, to quash the 20-count charge of fraud and money laundering preferred against them by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Ikuforiji and Atoyebi were first arraigned before Justice John [...]
A United Kingdom-based scholar, Dr. Charles Abe, has called on the Federal Government to stop appointing serving professors to public and political offices. This practice, he noted, had been robbing universities of human resources and thus deepening the brain drain syndrome in them. Rather than appoint serving professors to political offices, he said, career officers [...]
Justice Adamu Bello of an Abuja Federal High Court will on March 27 rule in a suit challenging the primary election that produced the Enugu State Governor, Sullivan Iheanacho Chime, as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the April 2011 election. The case was brought against Chime by Chief Alexander Chukwuemeka Obiechina. [...]
The Sun crew had to wait three hours for him to extricate himself from politicians that daily lay siege to his Ikoyi, Lagos home. But the wait was worth it for when Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu finally showed up at 8pm, he was shooting from both hips. Samples: Nigeria’s heart is working barely enough to [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan has called for prayers from traditional rulers for the restoration of peace and solution to security challenges facing the country, according to the News Agency of Nigeria. Jonathan made the call in Birnin Kebbi on Thursday when he met with the traditional rulers in Kebbi State at the palace of the Emir [...]
Following the demolition of six mosques by the Lagos State Government at the state secretariat, Alausa, the state chapter of the Conference of Islamic Organisations, has urged Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN) to rebuild at least one of them to assuage the feelings of the Muslim community. The mosques, some of which were makeshift, were demolished [...]
Former Delta State Governor James Ibori’s guilty plea before a UK court of money laundering is currently one of the hottest topics on the social media. The nation is united in denouncing his act of infamy and in celebrating the fact that a transgressor has been brought to justice. As Ibori awaits sentencing on April [...]
MONDAY February 13, leaders and governors of states in the South-West geo-political zone comprising Lagos, Ogun Oyo, Ondo, Osun, and Ekiti states gathered in the zone’s capital, Ibadan, to strategise for a roadmap into the future. The roadmap is expected to emanate from a blueprint for economic integration meant to restore the lost glory of [...]
NIGERIA’S debt profile is set to rise by N1 trillion. President Goodluck Jonathan, who says he is in dire need of funds to execute some critical projects, wants the National Assembly to clear the coast for him to borrow N1.3 trillion from the World Bank, African Development Bank (ADB) and others. The President in a [...]
Bayelsa State Returning Officer, Prof Joseph Ajienka, Sunday, declared the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, Seriake Dickson as winner of the state governorship election. Announcing the result, Prof Ajienka,Vice Chancellor, University of Port Harcourt said the PDP candidate polled a total of 417,500 votes. His closest rival, Famous Daunemigha of the CPC, came a distant [...]
IT is an irony that Bayelsa State with its unimpressive geographical size and rural status has intermittently captured national attention since the restoration of democracy in 1999. With a population of about 1,998,349 people, the state’s contribution to landmark political happenings, has continued to rank it among the most reported in Nigeria. The twin issues [...]
The executive of the Enugu state government has approved the release of more than one hundred and ninety-five million naira (N195, 170, 463.00) for the construction and renovation of some public schools in the state. The schools that would benefit from the money approved including the Government school for Deaf and Dumb, Coal Camp, Enugu. [...]
Warring chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), at the weekend, met in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, and resolved to put behind them all forms of grievances and distrust which had hallmarked their relationships in the past three years. Former Senate Leader, Senator Teslim Folarin, who lamented the intra-party crisis, urged the party chieftains [...]
Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has said his administration has constructed roads that were of high quality standard in the state. Amaechi stated this Sunday, at St. John’s Anglican Church, Rumueme, Port Harcourt, during the child dedication service of Master Godstime Samuel Ndubuisi, son of Venerable Jolly Ndubuisi and his wife, Gold. He said [...]
Moved by passion and desire to palliate the effect of the sudden tragedy that befell them, Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State has wiped away the tears of 14 widows whose husbands were murdered by suspected Boko Haram members in Mubi, Adamawa State by redeeming his promise to pay them N1 million each. The victims [...]
Immediate past governor of Adamawa State and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in last Saturday’s governorship poll in the state, Admiral Murtala Nyako (rtd), has been declared winner of the election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Nyako polled 302,953 votes to beat his closest opponent and flag bearer of the Action Congress of [...]
THE Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has picked holes in the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, recognition of Captain Idris Wada as governor of Kogi State and called for fresh governorship election in the state. It said the December 3, 2011 election that Wada won was null and void, “having contravened the provision of Section [...]
A member of Islamist group Boko Haram has confirmed one of the group’s high-ranking members was arrested, but refuted reports that the detained person was its spokesman. In a phone conference with journalists in the northeastern city of Maiduguri late Thursday, the man said Boko Haram’s head of “public enlightenment” Abu Dardaa was arrested and [...]
The SSS reportedly quizzed former Governor Shekarau over his alleged involvement in sponsoring Boko Haram just as his spokesman, Sule Yaú Sule, said the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) 2011 presidential flagbearer was not under arrest, contrary to online reports. Shekarau was invited to the Abuja headquarters of the SSS and questioned for several hours [...]
A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole and its erswhile deputy, Bayero Nafada have been cleared of a corruption charge by an Abuja High Court. Justice Suleiman Belgore ruled on Tuesday that the duo had no case to answer in connection with a N40 billion misapropriation charge filed by the Economics and [...]
The Nigeria Police Force Monday announced the passing away of the wife of the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Hajia Mariam Mohammed Abubakar. Mariam, 48, was said to have died in the early hours of Monday in the family house at Gandun Albasa quarters of Kano after a brief illness. She was buried at the Tarauni [...]
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan weekend decried the poor African and international ranking of Nigerian universities, saying older universities, particularly the University of Nigeria, must endeavour to change the situation. Jonathan stated that the recent ratings which indicated that “no Nigerian university is among the top 10 providers of tertiary institutions in Africa, not to mention globally” [...]
Confusion reigned Friday in Kogi as two governors were sworn in following the Supreme Court judgement sacking five governors. The Governor-elect, (the Peoples Democratic Party candidate who won the December 3, 2011 governorship election in the state), Captain Idris Wada, and the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Alhaji Abdullahi Bello, were sworn in [...]
FORMER Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd), yesterday, warned those who are harbouring the thought of disintegrating the country to have a rethink as he would not hesitate to re-enlist in the military and fight if the issue of secession rears its head. Speaking at the Ninth Daily Trust Dialogue held at the Congress Hall [...]
