Non-Performing Loans: Debtors might take AMCON to court
Experts in the financial sector have kicked against the recent move by the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) in buying all non-performing loans (NPLs) in the banking sector, saying that buying all loans without liaising with the debtors is a dangerous precedent.
NASS election: Police arrest 20 persons in Bauchi
No fewer than twenty people have been arrested by the Bauchi State Police Command for various electoral offences during the conduct of the National Assembly elections held across the state last weekend.
Cote d’ Ivoire crisis not yet over – UN chief
UN peacekeeping chief, Alain Le Roy, on Monday warned that the crisis in Cote d’ Ivoire was not yet over inspite of the capture of former President Laurent Gbagbo by forces loyal to President-elect, Alassane Ouattara.
More election results:Yerima returns to Senate
Former governor of Zamfara state, Ahmed Sani Yerima has won his re-election bid into the upper chambers for the Zamfara West Senatorial election scoring 154,359 votes while Zamfara North was won by Sen. Sahabi Yau of the PDP with 118,056 votes.
PDP rejects NASS election results in Imo
The PDP in Imo has rejected the results of the National Assembly election which declared Sen. Chris Anyanwu of APGA as winner in Imo East Senatorial District as well as two other federal constituencies
Police parade woman with 3 AK-47 rifles
The Lagos State Police Command, yesterday paraded a 20-year-old woman for being in possession of three AK-47 rifles.
Man slumps, dies in own car
The entire residents of Oke Ori- Omi area of Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State capital was thrown into mourning mood when a man who was identified as Engr Bolarinwa, slumped and gave up the ghost inside his car.
Shekarau, Fashola, Utomi, Agbakoba walk for violence-free polls
Worried by the incessant killings and other electoral violence that had continued to trail the ongoing democratic transition, Presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau; Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State; Olisa Agbakoba, SAN and the former Presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Mega Party, SDMP, Prof. Pat Utomi, will today lead other Nigerians on peace rally in Lagos.
Disagreement over alleged kickback linked to postponement
Fresh facts emerging suggest that the postponement of penultimate Saturday’s National Assembly elections may have been caused by a disagreement over the percentage of kickback from the contract cost.
PPPRA debunks N2.2bn bribe-for-oil quota scandal
The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, has dismissed as unfortunate reports in a medium (not Vanguard) that the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, was using the agency as a conduit to receive bribes worth over N2.2 billion from oil marketers in the country.
Solving the cement price hike(2)
CHINA dominates global cement consumption at 1,105kg per capita, representing about 50 per cent of global cement consumption.
