Transparency: Nigeria finally becomes EITI Compliant
After about five months of frenzied negotiations and last minute detailed presentations, the International Board of Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) has endorsed Nigeria’s management of Extractive Industries Revenue as an EITI Compliant Country. The decision was announced last week in Paris, France at the 5th global conference of the EITI holding at the French capital.
Uduaghan didn’t bribe me, says Ikimi
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 to benefit from Carlyle’s $750m fund
Nigeria is to benefit from Carlyle’s $750m (N541.2m) fund to invest in Africa.
43-yr-old man kidnaps 2 teenaged girls from Ika, Benin
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.
OGUN PDP CRISIS:Obasanjo floors Gbenga Daniel again
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.
I’ve capacity to represent Lagos Central – Tinubu
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.
When PDP and ACN battled in Lagos
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.
My fears for Ngige
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.
How police stormed kidnappers’ den, rescue 80-year old woman
If not for unbridled love of money, sheer wickedness or both, why would anybody, and in this case youngsters, abduct a hapless and helpless 80-year old woman? Why would anybody or group of persons kidnap and illegally incarcerate a woman that old, irrespective of her medical history
That we may win next time
Adekunle Salami has, in his column, asked that the huge money they took to Sudan be refunded.
His grudge was that they knew it would be a wasted journey but they still embarked on it.
April polls: No vacancy in Lagos govt house, ACN declares
Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Lagos State chapter, has declared that there was no vacancy in Alausa State House, adding that it had concluded plans for the kick-off of its campaign for the re-election of Governor Babatunde Fashola in the April gubernatorial polls.
