ABIA State governor, Chief Theodore Orji, yesterday, stormed out of a political forum organized for governorship candidates in the state by the Catholic Church in Umuahia. The governor said the environment was hostile to him.

The House of Representatives yesterday threatened to suspend the entire 2011 budget if 31 non-remitting agencies did not present their budget proposal in one week. The House had alleged that 31 government agencies were yet to submit their budget proposals for appropriation purposes.

Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) said maintenance of its Nigerian deepwater Bonga oil and gas field, which accounts for about 10 per cent of the country’s daily output, will last “several weeks.”

The Owerri Branch of Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has condemned what it called “the dastardly abduction of Justice Theophilus N. Nzeukwu and the gruesome murder of his driver and police orderly, on his way to work”.

The International Monetary Fund, IMF, has denied advising the Federal Government to devalue the Naira in its 2010 Article IV Consultation Report.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), this week signalled it would no longer defend the naira as it reduced foreign exchange supply by 19 per cent, prompting the naira to depreciate further in both the official and interbank segment of the market.

Governorship Candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Rivers State, Dr Abiye Sekibo, has again accussed the Rivers State government of frustrating his campaigns in the state, adding that the intimidation and harassment of the Action Congress of Nigerian, ACN, in the state was unfortunate.

By Taye Obateru Jos – Twelve lives were lost yesterday  in a ghastly automobile accident involving two vehicles around Kassa in Barakin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State. The two buses, a Nissan and Ford were said to be travelling in opposite directions along the Jos-Abuja highway when one of them had a burst […]

A citizen of Delta State, Oghenejabor Ikimi, who dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to court to stop the April gubernatorial election in the state, yesterday, denied the rumour that he was given N2 billion and a new Jeep by Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan to file the suit for his tenure extension.

Nigeria is to benefit from Carlyle’s $750m (N541.2m) fund to invest in Africa.

A 43-year-old man kidnnapped two teenaged girls, aged 11 and 15, respectively, holding them captive at his shanty in abattoir area of Agege, Lagos.

THE political legacy of Governor Gbenga Daniel in Ogun State was under threat, yesterday, after a Federal High Court in Abuja ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, not to recognize any candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who emerged from the primary election of the faction of the party loyal to him.

ACTION Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Lagos Central senatorial candidate and wife of immediate past governor of Lagos State, Mrs. Oluremi Tinubu, has dismissed as untrue and demeaning comments that she was riding on the back of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to become a senator, with the aim of building a political dynasty in the state.

EKO as Lagos is otherwise called in native Yoruba parlance was on show last Tuesday as the nation’s political heavyweights descended on the nation’s commercial capital city.

DR. CHRIS Ngige is one politician who needs no introduction in a congregation of his peers. He was wangled into power by elements thought to be political profiteers and got bundled out same way by the courts. The clumsy manner of his forced removal from office earlier on by those who enthroned him attracted wide condemnation. That false step greatly extenuated the invidious manner of his emergence as the Governor of Anambra State.