By Victor Ahiuma-Young
PETROLEUM and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, has condemned the crisis in Jos, Plateau State and called on governors in the North to tackle the issues of the almajiris and street urchins who are under Islamic scholars and incorporate them into formal education as a way of reducing sectarian [...]
By Emma Amaize, Emma Arubi & Akpokona Omafuaire
WARRI — THE civil society in Delta State have given the National Assembly seven days within which to resolve the leadership crisis in the country or face their wrath.
The ultimatum was served, weekend, when civil society groups took to the streets of Effurun and Warri, calling [...]
By Simon Ebegbulem
BENIN — BARELY one month after Federal Government withdrew soldiers attached to the Joint Task Force, JTF, code named Operation Thunderstorm created by Edo State Government, the Bishop of the Anglican Diocese and state Chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Rev. Peter Imasuen, was abducted, yesterday, by suspected kidnappers.
It was [...]
By Ise-Oluwa Ige
ABUJA—An Abuja high court has thrown out a request by Mr Yusuf Tilde, the Chief Security Officer, CSO, to President Umaru Yar’Adua to stop hearing in an on-going controversial case alleging abuse of office against him.
An Abuja-based businessman, Mr Abdulkarim Bello Umar had taken out the writ against the President Yar’Adua’s [...]
In response to the anomaly of increasing income coexisting with increasing poverty in Nigeria, I embarked on a close observation of the operation of the national economy sometime in 2001, and discovered that the root cause of our problem was the subsisting monopoly of the CBN in the supply of both the dollar and naira in the economy.
By AbdulSalam Muhammad
KANO — An Industrial court sitting in Kano, Friday, ordered AfriBank Plc to pay full benefits based on current salary to no fewer than 506 staff disengaged by the bank recently.
Delivering judgment in Kano,Justice M. B. Dada said the bank was not able to contravene all the claims adduced by the [...]
There was this interesting but visibly annoying mail from Eric Ekanem addressed to members of the CAF media in the ongoing Orange Africa Cup of Nations. In it, Mr. Ekanem wanted us to explain to him why it is Zambia and not Cameroun that topped Group D.
Two of the governors, in exclusive interviews, weekend, said their cold attitude towards Dr. Jonathan all this while was because of their information that he was already working with their opponents to abort their second term tickets in their respective states, stressing that supporting him to be acting president would tantamount to empowering him to “finish us politically.â€
Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has praised the Federal Government for creating an enabling environment for a free and fair House of Assembly re-run election in Etsako Central Local Government area.
FRIGHTENED residents flooded a military checkpoint to flee Jos, yesterday, after Muslim-Christian clashes that killed some 450 people and left scores of buildings burnt.
Why not allow the law to take its course while you go about your job of restoring the broken financial system?We can do with a little more maturity while rebuilding public confidence in the banking sector
THE Court of Appeal sitting in Benin-City, Edo State, has upheld Action Congress’ (AC) appeal against the ruling of Delta State Governorship/Legislative Houses of Assembly Election Tribunal, which stuck out the petition by Temi Harriman challenging the result of the 2007 election.
FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo likes to call God’s name with seemingly frightening irreverence. He is calling down curses on himself in a matter Nigerians thought was well known – that Obasanjo personally insisted Umaru Musa Yar’Adua would succeed him as Nigeria’s President.
OCTOGENARIAN and frontline nationalist, Chief Anthony Enahoro, weekend, disclosed that the continued absence of President Umaru Yar’Adua has foisted a power vacuum and constitutional crisis on Nigeria, noting that this situation has justified the great urgency for stakeholders to come together and form an alternative political platform that Nigerians can call their own.
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