A primary school teacher has allegedly hanged himself in Obudu Local Government when his name appeared amongst the 924 teachers who were thrown out of job last week by the Cross River State Government in a massive downsizing.

By Emmanuel Aziken ABUJA — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has congratulated Acting President Goodluck Jonathan on his new role in government and sought his cooperation in building cordial relations between Britain and Nigeria. While applauding the roles of the National Assembly, Federal Executive Council and other institutions in preserving constitutional order in the wake […]

…flays academics for their silence KANO—The Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has revealed the details of the four pillars of banking reforms at the pre-convocation lecture of the Bayero University, Kano, weekend. In a paper titled, “The Nigerian Banking Industry: What went wrong and way forward”, Sanusi challenged the academics for […]

…accuses govt of diverting N19bn ABUJA—A northern socio-cultural organisation, the Nupe Congress has called on the National Assembly to commence impeachment proceedings against Acting President, Goodluck Jonathan for violating the 2009 Appropriation Act by stopping the dredging of River Niger without recourse to the National Assembly. Addressing newsmen in Abuja yesterday, the National Secretary of […]

*I’m on annual leave, he says By Peter Duru MAKURDI — Against the backdrop of recent newspaper reports that former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Chief Mike Aondoakaa (SAN) had fled the country, Minister for Special Duties has declared that he did not run  from the country as being insinuated in […]