PETROLEUM products marketers across the country appear to have finally gone ahead of the Federal Government to commence a full blown deregulation of the downstream sector as price of premium motor spirit (PMS) popularly called petrol has gone to an all time high of N150.00 a litre, even as some major oil marketers have also started a strategic sale of petrol at black market prices right inside their stations.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has denied reports that its national leadership has commenced secret plans with Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan for a post Yar‘Adua administration.

ON the 11th day of November 2008, the Edo State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), one time superpower party in the state polity for nearly 10 years, ceased to govern the people and went into extinction.

In the PDP, there are two classes of politicians. Those who came in to build the party, to organize the party and celebrate it and put it in the winning form in general elections and even local elections. And there is the other group of politicians who came in to sit and obtain posts in elections. You will expect the actions of these politicians not to be uniform, but to be in agreement with their own desires.

By Emmanuel Aziken ABUJA—The Senate Committee on Ethics and Public Petitions is investigating the sack of a female officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Mrs. Udeoji Tochukwu Francisca who was dismissed for marrying the love of her life, a driver. The Senate investigation followed a petition by the dismissed officer to the […]

By Kingsley Omonobi ABUJA—There were indications weekend that the Chairman of Economic and financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri, has elected to chart a new course in the affairs of financial crimes investigation in the anti-graft commission by dumping crack Police detectives from the commission and replacing them with operatives of the State security […]

ABUJA—The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, has dragged the immediate past Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro before a Federal high court sitting in Abuja for owing Lead Bank Limited about N161 million.

By Prince Osuagwu WITH unfolding events in recent time, it could not have been an accident that the Nigerian telecommunications market zoomed past that of South Africa, which has dominated the lead for decades. Although, easily dubbed the dumping ground of unwanted foreign technologies, what no one would deny the market is its liberal stature […]

…suspend commission’s 2010 budget By Tordue Salem ABUJA—The House of Representatives weekend, issued a statement accusing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of lacking in transparency and has promptly withheld the Commission’s budget for the year 2010. In a letter to EFCC Chairman, Mrs. Farida Waziri, the Chairman of the House Committee on Finacial […]

Chairman, Governors’ Forum in Nigeria, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has lamented the persisting fuel scarcity across the country, attributing the hardship to the uncertainty trailing the proposed deregulation policy of the federal government.