The Senate yesterday expressed satisfaction with the performance of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as Acting President even as it claimed its continued ignorance of the circumstances of the well being of President Umaru Yar‘Adua.

By Emma Ovuakporie ABUJA—The Minister of State, Interior, Chief Ademola Seriki has said the Nigerian Government and the British will by April 2010 sign a Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, that would make possible the transfer of Nigerians in British jail back home. He disclosed this when the British High Commissioner, Mr Bob Dewer led a […]

NIGERIA has been called upon to have a rethink of the Federal Character clause in its constitution, if there should be any meaningful check of the series of crises and violence that rock the country.

THE Federal Government’s Presidential Steering Committee on the Implementation of Amnesty for the Niger-Delta, chaired by Acting President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday rose from an emergency meeting with a marching order to all Ministries Departments and Agencies, MDAs, that are directly or indirectly connected to the programme to go back to work, and ensure that the provision of infrastructure continues flawlessly.

TWO principal officers of Udenu Local Government Area in Enugu State, have been detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over an indebtedness of about N66 million to Skye Bank Plc by the immediate past administration of Dr. Ignatius Eze.