The National Council of State meeting yesterday at Aso rock Abuja was preceded by a mild drama involving Governors Nyako and Orji over the sitting arrangement made for the participants in the council chambers of the State House. The arrangement had been made in alphabetical order, which placed Adamawa, Akwa Ibom and Abia in contiguous positions, but Nyako protested as ... Read More »
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria on Tuesday opened yet another chapter in the ongoing Senate committee’s probe of allegedly unremitted oil proceeds. At the hearing, the CBN Governor named Seven Energy as one of the companies to which funds were diverted when the session opened, the Chairman read a welcome address stating that only those who submitted ... Read More »
The House of Representatives member for Oshodi-Isolo Federal Constituency 2, Honourable Hakeem Abiodun Muniru, has called on members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to ensure a peaceful exercise devoid of rancour and bickering. Muniru told journalists in Lagos that the exercise should be seen as a reunion exercise where members come together and take steps to move the country ... Read More »
The lawmaker representing Ekiti Central in the Senate, Babafemi Ojudu, may have uncovered a serious fraud in this year’s budget. At Tuesday’s plenary, Ojudu explained to his colleagues that after receiving his copy of the budget, he compared it with those of 2012 and 2013 only to discover that there is no marked difference between the 2014 budget and the ... Read More »
•‘Allahu Akbar’, church songs and incantations boom at assembly ground There was commotion and confusion in Baptist High School, Iwo, Osun State, on yesterday, as students of the school abandoned the general uniform provided by Governor Rauf Aregbesola-led administration and wore hijabs, purdah and choir garments to the school. The development disrupted the usual assembly prayer, as the students declined ... Read More »
The Osun State Government, on Tuesday, berated the critics of its computer tablet, otherwise called ‘Opon Imon’, distributed to senior secondary school students in the state, saying its critics are suffering from attention deficiency syndrome. It would be recalled that Iyiola Omisore criticised the educational programme and policies of the state, saying the government only distributed 900 computer tablets to ... Read More »
¨Ijaw leader and former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, has upbraided the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu, describing him as someone that is afraid of his identity. Clark also accused Tinubu of denying the Yorubas of their political identity with the formation of the APC. In a letter addressed to Tinubu by ... Read More »
TELECOMS giant MTN Nigeria has been accused of engaging in large scale money laundering which has helped in not only depleting Nigeria’s Foreign Exchange (Forex) reserves but also has negatively affected the country’s economy over the last five years, National Daily can authoritatively reveal. Presidency sources who did not want to be mentioned disclosed to this newspaper that an anonymous ... Read More »
The Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, on Monday (yesterday) in Abeokuta declared ‘war’ on journalists in the state. Journalists, who had waited for over an hour at the Gateway Hall venue of the meeting between the governor, National Assembly members and other stakeholders in the All Progressives Congress (APC) were taken aback when Amosun told the newsmen that he had ... Read More »
A former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, may have hit it big with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), as his quantitysurveying firm has landed a multi billion-naira contract with the apex bank. El-Rufai joined critics of the Federal Government shortly after he left the economic team of Ex President Olusegun Obasanjo and his exit ... Read More »
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