Envoy of the United States of America to Nigeria, Ms Robin R. Sanders yesterday said her country would collaborate with the Nigerian government towards ensuring that necessary information required for prosecution of citizens fingered in the Halliburton scandal were provided.

Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri yesterday vowed that she was prepared to prosecute the immediate past Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Michael Aondoakaa if charges of corruption were brought before the Commission against him.

A commercial bus yesterday ran over six primary school pupils, leaving two girls dead and four others seriously injured at Andaza village in Kiyawa Local Government Area of Jigawa State.

By  Emmanuel Aziken Abuja—The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,  is to take primary role in the prosecution of indicted political office holders under proposals adopted by the Senate that stripped the Independent and Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission, ICPC, of that duty. The Senate’s move came at the commencement of deliberations on […]

By Olasunkanmi Akoni & Monsur Olowoopejo LAGOS — As part of the effort to reduce the high rate of unemployment in Lagos State, Governor Babatunde Fashola has launched a job registration website portal for graduates and undergraduates in the state. Fashola, while launching the website yesterday at the Lagos State auditorium, Ikeja, said: “The website […]

A former employee of the National Drug Law Agency, NDLEA, Mrs. Udoka Tochukwu, yesterday, accused the agency of terminating her employment on her refusal to terminate her pregnancy.

By Abdulwahab Abdulah Lagos — OFFICIALS of federal and states Ministry of Justice in the country yesterday  met to review the  problems bedeviling the sector and ways to solve them, saying “the time is now for the country to harmonise positions on different justice sector reforms to reduce unnecessary delay in the criminal delivery system. […]

MEMBERS of the True Face of Lagos group, yesterday, at the Lagos State House of Assembly presented a letter of retraction of the allegations against the lawmakers to the Speaker, Mr Adeyemi Ikuforiji, claiming that they lacked evidence to back the allegation.

Lagos—All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA has criticised the ruling of a Federal High Court,  Lagos on Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC’s competence to conduct elections. Mr Nkem Lemchi, Lagos State Secretary of APGA, told newsmen in Lagos that the nation’s primary concern should be how the Justice Mohammad Uwais’ committee report on electoral reforms could […]

By Demola Akinyemi Ilorin — The Nigeria Labour Congress NLC, has tasked the Acting President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, on the need to urgently revolutionise education in the country, to ensure mass qualitative education for all. The vice president of the union, Comrade Issa Aremu, made the call yesterday in Ilorin at the maiden stakeholders’ conference, […]

FORMER Group Executive Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Dr Chris Ogienwonyi has attributed the persistent fuel scarcity in the nation to the alleged failure of the Federal Government to employ capable hands to man the oil industry.

The House of Representatives would today start a two-day public hearing on a bill seeking to amend Section 145 of the 1999 constitution.

By  Olasunkanmi Akoni LAGOS—The Action Congress, AC, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, to conduct a run-off  election between Mr Peter Obi of All Peoples Grand Alliance, APGA, and Dr Chris Ngige of  AC, and immediately correct the anomaly of prematurely declaring Obi, winner of the February 6, election. AC, has said that […]

CONTROVERSIES trailing the continued absence of President Umaru Yar’Adua from office since 23 November, 2009, have taken a new twist, as a Form 48 was, yesterday, filed against the newly appointed Attorney-General of the Federation, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode, and the entire members of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, for allegedly failing to comply with an order made by the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court Abuja division, Justice Daniel Abutu on 22 January, 2010.