$12.4bn oil windfall: AGF, CBN ask court to reject Okigbo report
The Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, and Minister of Justice, Mr Mohammed Adoke (SAN) and the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, have asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to reject the Okigbo panel report as “the report is not admissible in law because it has not yet been published in a gazette and no white paper has been issued on the report.”
Nigeria signs MoU on aviation with D-8 group
Nigeria has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on aviation with D-8 member-countries.
Anambra CNPP adopts Akunyili for Senate
THE Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, in Anambra State has adopted the senatorial candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, for Anambra Central, Professor Dora Akunyili, as its candidate for the April 2011 election.
Aregbesola assures on re-activation of railways
Osun State Governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, has assured the people of the state that the moribund rail line system would soon be made active for massive movement of goods particularly agricultural produce between Osun and Lagos states.
Mimiko warns election riggers as 10,000 PDP members decamp to LP
GOVERNOR Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State, weekend, read the riot act to politicians preparing the ground for rigging of the polls and fanning the embers of violence, to desist from such unlawful acts or face the penalty.
Task Force boss beats up Oba’s son
THE son of the Benin monarch and the Caretaker Chairman of Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State, Prince Ekpen Erediauwa, was beaten up, weekend, by the chairman of the Edo State Task Force on Petroleum Monitoring Committee, Mr Osakpanwa Eriyo, following a disagreement on the sharing of revenue collected from traders in the council.
