A group of young Nigerians on Thursday stormed the National Council of State meeting at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja to protest against alleged plan to postpone the general elections, which is expected to kick start in nine days time. The protesters, mostly youths and social media activists, were led by Barrister Solomon Dalung. They marched from the popular ... Read More »
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) have been indicted by the investigative forensic audit done by PriceWaterHouse Coopers into the allegations of unremitted funds to the Federation Accounts. A summary of the report was released this afternoon in Abuja by the Auditor General of the Federation, Mr. Samuel Ukura, as directed by President ... Read More »
Supporters of President Goodluck Jonathan has called for the resignation of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega. The supporters, under the aegis of Southern Nigeria Peoples Assembly led by Chief Edwin Clark, made the demand at a press briefing in Abuja on Thursday. Among those at the briefing were a former Minister of Information, Walter ... Read More »
Improved customer experience, technology and thorough exploitation of the emerging alternative markets in the non-oil sectors of the Nigerian economy are keys to growing emerging retail banking sector. This was the submission of the Heritage Bank’s Executive Director, Ivory Banking, Mrs. Mary Akpobome who represented Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Bank, Mr. Ifie Seiko as a guest Speaker at ... Read More »
The megaphone of “change” Lai Mohammed, the APC spokesman and his son, Folajimi Mohammed are involved in ILLEGAL dredging and selling of sand at Itedo-Lekki (the road by His Presence Church) on a large scale, raking in over N1bn in the last 10 months and shortCHANGEing Lagos in the process. Lai Mohammed’s dredging company, Knights Bridge Dredging apart from doing ... Read More »
Ahead of the National Council of State meeting scheduled to take place today in Abuja, the bitter recriminations between the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) continued to escalate on Wednesday, with the ruling party calling on the main opposition party to leave it out of the controversy over the plot to set up an interim ... Read More »
Tuesday, 3rd February afforded governorship candidates of the different political parties vying for the governorship position of Oyo State another opportunity to tell the people what they have to offer. The event was the Governorship Debate organized by Ibadan’s first private radio station, Splash 105.5 FM and the venue was the International Conference Center of the University of Ibadan. While ... Read More »
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Wednesday said that the ballot papers for this month’s general elections were ready. The spokesman for the INEC’s National Chairman, Kayode Idowu, made this known to The PUNCH just as feelers indicated that in Abuja that Thursday’s(today) Council of State meeting might be stormy. The council, which consists of the President, the Vice President, ... Read More »
Caption: Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, SAN (right) with the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship Candidate in Lagos State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode (2nd right), Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC) Lagos State Chapter, Chief Henry Ajomale (middle), Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Hon. (Mrs) Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire (2nd left) and the Women Leader, All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief (Mrs.) Kemi Nelson ... Read More »
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