Isekhure, who is also the Chief Priest to the Oba of Benin, fielded questions from newsmen in Benin yesterday on the on-going nationwide strike embarked upon by ASUU over the failure of the federal government to implement an earlier agreement it reached with the body and said there was no need for the government to have entered into any negotiation with the university teachers if it knew it was not ready to implement such an agreement.
Asari was picked up Tuesday by men believed to be officials of the State Security Service (SSS), operating at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, at about 8:00 pm on arrival from Frankfurt, Germany, where he had gone on a medical check-up.
At the meeting yesterday, Senators particularly flayed what they described as the lopsided appointments made by the administration claiming that the South had been severely marginalised in the sharing of choice appointments by the present administration.
The make-belief shots from that event, allegedly taken by Steve Chinuwa-Ogwu, had been generously published by www. pointblank news.com as evidence of murder of Muyideen Alayande for ritual purposes.
By Emeka Mamah
Kaduna — Several tonnes of poisonous rice from Asia, which were said to have been rejected by the Sierra Leonean government, have flooded markets in Kaduna, Katsina, Zamfara, Kebbi, Sokoto and other neighbouring states causing palpable fear within communities and government circles.
By Kingsley Omonobi
ABUJA — There were indications in Abuja yesterday that thousands of retired ex-soldiers who were prevailed upon not to embark on a nationwide protest over the non payment of the arrears of the 12.5% increment in salary in 2003 and the 15% increment in 2007 to civil servants, may go back to [...]
“If anybody, government official satisfies a job not done according to specification, government will not hesitate to wield the big stick against such a person.
By Emmanuel Ovuakporie
OWERRI—The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested the Vice Chancellor of the Imo state University, Prof I.C.Okonkwo and two other top officials of the institution over an alleged N70million fraud.
Everybody knows it, except obdurate demagogues and partisan ideologues who while praying unabashedly for Obama’s failure forget that the entire enterprise is not really about Obama, not about you or me or anybody for that matter.
One of the questions thrown at him was whether he was about to return to his original political party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as widely rumoured, or had he decided to stay with his adopted party, the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA).
He confessed that Shade was quite familiar with some members of his family since she lives in Kano where his parents are and visits the family house when he goes home. Henry and I are both from Imo state. He told me that they could not decide for him whom to marry and I should keep my mind off it since he is the one to decide.
The new leadership has moved to reduce the government’s role in the economy and to promote private sector investment and competition Oddly enough but not surprisingly, improvement to the country’s economy in recent years have been attributed to this rather than their Apartheid past.
THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has warned that crude oil supply to refineries will dry up in 15 days if the vandalism of oil pipelines in the Niger Delta continues unabated.
SINOPEC, an acronym for China National Petroleum Corporation has paid C$8.27 billion (US$7.24 billion or N1.06 trillion) for Addax Petroleum after the Canadian-based outfit gave the nod to the Chinese giant’s C$52.80 per share takeover offer.
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