RE-ELECTION TICKET: Govs, legislators in cat and mouse game

RE-ELECTION TICKET: Govs, legislators in cat and mouse game

A CAT and mouse game laced with political intrigues is playing out between members of the National Assembly and some of their governors over perceived plans by the latter to derail the re-election of a number of recalcitrant federal legislators.
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Nestle, Honeywell, 11 others release score cards to NSE

Nestle, Honeywell, 11 others release score cards to NSE

Nestle Nigeria Plc, Honeywell Flour Mills Plc and eight other companies have released their score cards to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in compliance with the post listing requirement of the Exchange.

Lack of funds may restrict SEC plans – Schapiro

Lack of funds may restrict SEC plans – Schapiro

Budget shortfalls may hurt the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) even as it desperately needs funds to bolster equity markets and adopt new rules required by the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul signed into law this year, its chairman, Mary Schapiro said on Tuesday.

Nigeria, Serbia bilateral agreements yet to beimplemented, 8 years after

Nigeria, Serbia bilateral agreements yet to beimplemented, 8 years after

The bilateral agreements between Nigeria and Serbia have not been implemented since it was concluded in 2002. The Serbia Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Rifat Rondic, disclosed this during a meeting with Nigeria’s Minister of Commerce and Industry, Senator Jubril Martins-Kuye.

Scores injured as explosions rock campaign rally ground in Bayelsa

Scores injured as explosions rock campaign rally ground in Bayelsa

Thousands of residents of Yenagoa who thronged the campaign rally of Beimo Rufus-Spiff, a governorship aspirant under the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Wednesday narrowly escaped death when two deafening explosions rocked the venue of the rally at Opolo Community Secondary School ground.

Jos blasts: Sultan, CAN, others dismiss terror claims

Jos blasts: Sultan, CAN, others dismiss terror claims

OUTRAGED by the claim of a terrorist group that claimed responsiblity for the Jos mayhem, the Nigerian Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, headed by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, the Council of Ulama in Jos, the Ja’amatu Nasril Islam, JNI, and other Islamic groups in the country, yesterday, dismissed the group’s claim insisting that it was not only faceless but lacked any iota of credibility.

20,000 Ijaw villagers under siege by soldiers, says group

20,000 Ijaw villagers under siege by soldiers, says group

IJAW Youths Welfare Association, IYWA, has alerted the United Nations that over 20,000 residents of 11 communities in Burutu and Bomadi Local Government Areas of Delta State have been under siege by soldiers, deployed by the Joint Task Force, JTF, on the Niger-Delta, to their homelands for upwards one month in the search for wanted militant leader, “General” John Togo.

Why we struck, by Jos terror group

Why we struck, by Jos terror group

LAGOS—THE group that claimed responsibility for the Jos mayhem which claimed over 80 lives fueled its claim, yesterday, by posting a video clip on the internet showing its spokesman justifying why they struck in Jos. Online publication, Saharareporters on its site showed the video of the group’s spokesman reading from an Arabic text which was […]

Fire razes Owerri FRCN plant house

Fire razes Owerri FRCN plant house

The plant house of Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN, Heartland FM, Owerri, was last Monday, gutted by a mid-afternoon mysterious fire, which reportedly destroyed property worth over N1.5 million.

Why Obasanjo collapsed at Bajowa’s 70th birthday

Why Obasanjo collapsed at Bajowa’s 70th birthday

FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo caused a stir that almost disrupted the Church Service marking the 70th birthday thanksgiving service in honour of a former Managing Director Nigerian Airways, Major-General Olu Bajowa (Rtd) on Monday in Igbotako, area of Ondo State.

Tension in Enugu as PDP begins congresses today

Tension in Enugu as PDP begins congresses today

Tension heightened in Enugu yesterday as the two factions of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in the state grappled with the challenges of fresh congresses ordered by the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party to resolve the crisis that had since engulfed the party in the coal city state.