IF the stance and disposition of the Federal Government and governors of the 36 states of the country were anything to go by, peaceful resolution of the prevailing wind of insecurity unleashed by a militant Islamic sect is in the offing.
THE on-going Public Hearing on Near Collapse of the Capital Market in Nigeria took another twist, yesterday, as principal officers of the Securities and Exchange Commission sang discordant tunes that revealed the turmoil in the house, where the major actors work at cross purposes.
Former Director-General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, Professor Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke, yesterday, indicted the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, for collecting unapproved fees from transactions in the secondary segment of the Nigerian capital market.
Lagos State Government, yesterday, sacked 788 doctors in its employment following what it described as illegal strike embarked upon by the doctors since April 16 2012.
THE controversy over the multi-billion naira pension scam, weekend, took a new dimension as the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation, OAuGF, queried the Pension Task Force Team Chairman, Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina and directed him to refund N127, 085, 880 to the treasury.
“We want Dr Jonathan one on one. No police, no nothing. And if he doesn’t addressus in the next 78 hours, we are going to strike, and, this timearound, we are coming to Abuja and Lagos. We are not hiding it; weare going to see to it.”
POLITICAL tension heightened in Edo State yesterday with the assassination of the Principal Private Secretary, PPS, to Governor Adams Oshiomhole and Deputy National Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde.
NO fewer than 56 persons were killed, Wednesday night, after gunmen set off explosives and fired on a cattle market in Potiskum, Yobe State. A nurse who received bodies in the local hospital confirmed the casuality figure which he said could be higher.
The Government of President Goodluck Jonathan came under attack from Nigeria’s senior bishops yesterday over the spate of bomb attacks in the country as they said the government was too weak to deal with growing threat from terrorists waging a campaign of terror against Christians.
AGAINST the backdrop of unrestrained reign of terror across the country with its attendant loss of lives, Nigerian workers, yesterday, spoke with one voice expressing fear and anger over their continued existence even as former Defence Minister, General Theophilus Danjuma (rtd), concluded that Nigeria is presently on fire and tending towards the Somali experience.
TARABA State Police Commissioner, Mr. Maman Sule confessed, yesterday, that he narrowly escaped death when some terrorists attacked his convoy with explosives at the premises of the Ministry of Finance which was adjacent the Taraba police headquarters leaving 11 persons dead and 20 others injured.
TWENTY persons were killed yesterday, including two university professors with several others injured when gunmen armed with bombs attacked St Stephen Catholic Chaplain, Bayero University, Kano.
In what is becoming a very messy affair, President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, took on his National Security Adviser, NSA, General Patrick Azazi, on his comment that the insurgency in the country could be traced to the zoning arrangement of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, declaring that “people need to ask the NSA to explain what he really meant”.
As Nigerians and oth-er countries continue to express outrage against Thursday’s bomb attacks on ThisDay, Sun and Moment newspapers at both Abuja and Kaduna, the National Security Adviser, General Andrew Owoye Azazi (rtd.), yesterday, at Asaba, Delta State, blamed the menace on the zoning policy of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP.
