Embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak yesterday named his 74 year old intelligence chief as the Vice President, Omar Suleiman, a position he left vacant in the past 30 years as part of his plan to ensure that his son Gamal emerged after him without opposition.
Although, the Presidential Advisory Council (PAC), came with a counsel, it was a counsel brought after the fact. For President Goodluck Jonathan, there was an urgent need to do something.
The banking reforms carried out by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), led by Lamido Sanusi, took a new dimension recently with the declaration by the apex bank to buy over the toxic assets of the banks it took over and the directive to commercial banks depositors to upgrade their accounts, or risk suspension of such accounts.
Major General Asif Duraiz Akhtar (rtd), the Pakistani High Commissioner to Nigeria, in this interview, speaks on the challenges of his country, Pakistan’s relationship with Nigeria, terrorism, among other issues.
Nigeria’s elusive economic and social greatness since independence from Britain, which international and national analysts and historians consider inexplicable in view of the country’s human and material endowment, would continue to be a subject for public discourse until the citizenry are generally comfortable and prosperous.
Mr. Mba Okoroafor, National Coordinator, Goodluck/Sambo Vanguard, is an administrator/financial expert. In this interview, he speaks on the just-concluded PDP primary and strategies put in place to ensure Jonathan wins in the forthcoming presidential election.
One thing that is of utmost concern to her is the sorry state of education in the country.
A former manager of the University of Lagos Bookshop and now the Managing Director of Books & Prints Ltd, Mrs. Ronke Orimalade regrets that Nigerians are acquiring degrees these days without getting educated due to the gradual death of the book-selling sector.
Joseph was Haldane course mate from 100level in the university. They were best of friends, reading partners and even partners in crime. Everybody thought they had something going, until Joseph went out with Marcel and Haldane dated Patrick. But their relationship though platonic was more intense than their individual affairs put together. It was no surprise to anybody that even after graduation; their friendship was still very strong.
The overseer of Crown FC of Ogbomoso, Olanrewaju Oladeji, has opened up on the reasons behind the suspension of head coach Ganiyu Salami.
A joint team of the Customs and the National Drug Laws Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has arrested one Elihu Essiet, suspected to be the brain behind the Importation of the 165 kilogram of cocaine seized earlier in the week.
Senator Smart Adeyemi yesterday won the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, senate primary election for Kogi East Senatorial district. Senator Adeyemi beat three other aspirants in the rescheduled primary that was deferred partly on account of judicial intervention.
If the crisis rocking the foundation of Nigeria’s football eventually leads to a ban from the world’s football governing body, FIFA, Nigerians have been told not to lose sleep over it because it would be a blessing in disguise.
Perhaps, Muhammadu Buhari, the ever confident presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, did not have the bigger picture in sight when he was quoted as saying that the merger talks between his party and the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, would be sealed during the week.
Mohammed Shaba Lafiaji, former governor of Kwara State and a member of the PDP National Electoral Panel in this interview answers questions on the on-going registration exercise and agrees that the extension is necessary to ensure everybody votes during the elections.
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