Imo Assembly speaker reads riot act to workers
Imo State House of Assembly has warned that any public or civil servant proven to be working at cross purposes with the policy objectives of the state administration will only have himself to blame.
The Speaker, Chief Goodluck Nanah Opiah, read the riot act before the presentation of the 2011 budget proposal to the lawmakers by Governor Ikedi Ohakim.
Enahoro’s death, national loss, says Wogu
MINISTER of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, has described the death of elder statesman and frontline nationalist, Pa. Anthony Enahoro, as a national loss, especially at this time of political transition when the nation would have benefitted immensely from his wealth of experience.
PDP begins screening of guber aspirants in S-West
THE screening of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship aspirants in the South-West kicked off Tuesday in Abeokuta with aspirants arriving for the exercise being conducted by the Committee headed by Senator Florence Ita-Giwa.
Bomb blasts: Court denies Charles Okah, 3 others bail
A Federal High Court in Abuja, Tuesday, refused to release Charles Okah, the younger brother to the embattled ex-leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, Henry Okah, on bail, even as it equally ordered the State Security Service, SSS, to within 72 hours, transfer him alongside three other accused person to Kuje prison.
2011 budget: Senators worry over implementation
Mixed reactions Tuesday trailed the 2011 budget from Senators as they commenced deliberation on the general principles of the 2011 appropriation bill. This is just as a rights group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, petitioned the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights over the jumbo pay of Nigerian lawmakers.
Dramatic twist to Enugu PDP screening exercise
THE crisis rocking the Enugu State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, took another dimension, Tuesday, when the chairperson sent by Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo-led National Working Committee disappeared after making an initial appearance at the venue.
