Saraki assures ex-legislative aides on payment of severance allowance Senate President and Chairman of the National Assembly, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has assured legislative aides and members of the 7th National Assembly that the payment of their severance allowance will soon commence. Saraki, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu said all efforts were ... Read More »
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Ambode wellcomes Lagos admission into Odua group
AMBODE WELCOMES ADMISSION INTO ODU’A GROUP The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, has welcome with joy and enthusiasm the admission of Lagos State as the sixth member of the Odu’a Group, describing it as a major landmark in the effort of the South-Western States of Nigeria towards regional integration. In a statement issued on Wednesday by the State’s Commissioner ... Read More »
Attack on power plant will affect Electricity supply
ATTACK ON ESCRAVOS GAS PIPELINE : 600 MW OLORUNSOGO NIPP, OTHER POWER PLANTS AFFECTED AS N470 MILLION IS LOST DAILY ON GAS AND ELECTRICITY LOSSES … Power, Gas Sectors incur multiple losses in repairs, electricity shortage, gas sales As security agencies intensify the search for culprits behind the act, it has been established that the weekend’s attack on the ... Read More »
PDP condemns Olisa Metuh being handkuffed to court
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) condemns in totality the brazen display of authoritarianism demonstrated by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC Government in handcuffing its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh even when the court is yet to hear his case. This development which expectedly elicited widespread public outcry clearly betrays an extra-judicial, top political witch-hunt policy of the APC, carefully ... Read More »
olubadan passes on
The Olubadan of Ibadan land, Oba Samuel Odulana Odugade 1, is dead. The monarch, who attained the age of 100 years in 2014, passed away Tuesday evening after he reportedly lost consciousness. The Nation reliably gathered last night that the monarch’s corpse has been taken to a morgue as at press time. Other details about Oba Odulana’s death were sketchy ... Read More »
Synagogue!Court adjourns to Jan 27th
SYNAGOGUE: COURT ADJOURNS HEARING IN CRIMINAL TRIAL TO JAN 27 A Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja on Tuesday fixed January 27, 2016 for arguments in a criminal charge filed by the Lagos State Government against the Registered Trustees of Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) and two engineers over the September 12, 2014 collapsed building in which 116 ... Read More »
Akwa ibom govt distances itself from fake supreme Court judgment
Akwa Ibom Government dismisses on-line report that Supreme Court has upheld Governor Emmanuel’s election The attention of the Akwa Ibom State Government has been drawn to on-line publication where it was stated that the Supreme Court has upheld the election of Governor Udom Emmanuel. We wish to state here clearly and in the strongest terms that the report is false, ... Read More »
pix!Olisa Metuh taken to court in handcuff
No 2 Versions of 2015 budget Buhari
“No Two Versions Of 2016 Budget,” PMB Tells NASS Sends Corrected Version to Nass President Muhammadu Buhari has informed the National Assembly that there are no two versions of the 2016 Budget, and that the version he presented to its joint sitting on Tuesday, December 22, 2015, remains the authentic document. He also affirmed that there is no plan to ... Read More »
Rivers APC wants Buhari to release 800b owned Nddc
RIVERS APC APPEALS FOR RELEASE OF N800B OWED NDDC BY FG •Says Ibim Semenitari’s appointment as Commission’s MD one of Buhari’s best gifts to the Niger Delta The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has made a passionate appeal to the Muhammadu Buhari Administration to priotise the payment of the N800 billion owed the Niger Delta ... Read More »