FORMER Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, yesterday, adduced reasons why trial Justice Suleiman Belgore of an Abuja High Court sitting at Apo, should not allow counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Festus Keyamo, to go ahead and prosecute either himself or his former deputy, Usman Nafada Bayero, over the alleged uncanny roles they played in a N40 billion loan scam.

WE can count. One of the things we number well is promises. This may have something to do with the expectations politicians who made them would soon forget. President Goodluck Jonathan may have a different intention in saying he did not have a number of items in the agenda of his administration.

British Prime Minister, David Cameron, said yesterday that Britain would support Nigeria in its anti-terrorism security after a string of deadly bombings across the country.

The Managing Director of Urban Development Bank of Nigeria PLC, UDBN, Mr. Adekunle Oyinloye, yesterday said that Nigeria’s infrastructural deficit is estimated to be in excess of $200 billion (more than N30 trillion).

Fresh debt challenges await returning former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as the Federal Government debt portfolio has, again, hit $ 37 billion.

The Ministry of Trade and Investment is planning to float a Diaspora Fund as part of strategies aimed at unlocking available capital for investment in critical sectors of the economy.

The new Minister of Sports Alhaji Yusuf Suleiman has pledged to find a permanent solution to the crisis currently pervading Nigerian Football. He made this pledge in Abuja yesterday during his maiden press briefing.

A woman was yesterday killed by the police in Dengi, headquarters of Kanam Local Goverment Area of Plateau State while allegedly trying to stop the council Chairman, Dr. Saleh Kanam, from resuming office following a court order.

Leaders of the nation’s labour movement, midnight, called off the three day warning strike they earlier declared to protest the reluctance of the Federal and state governments to pay the new minimum wage.

AWKA—Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State, yesterday, explained why he did not celebrate his 50th birthday. Obi, who spoke with newsmen shortly after the exco meeting,  said since most of his commissioners knew his views about unguarded celebration, the issue was not given any attention at the meeting. He said: “The business of governing a […]

AFTER two years and seven months in prison, Enugu-based oil magnate, Chief Ignatius Nnubia, and six others, standing trial over the alleged kidnap of Dr. Francis Edemobi, younger brother to the former Minister of Information, Professor Dora Akunyili, were Tuesday discharged and acquitted for offences of conspiracy, armed robbery and kidnapping by an Enugu State High Court.

LAST week, on the very ominous 13th day of the month, terrorists struck in India’s largest city, Mumbai, killing 17 people with more than 100 injured.

SPEAKER of Delta State House of Assembly, Mr. Victor Ochei, yesterday, said he was neither summoned nor under investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over a supposed N27 billion contract for the Delta State Independent Power Project, IPP, at Oghara.

SATURDAY, July 9, 2011, the continent of Africa recorded another historic landmark, this time away from liberation from the shackles of colonialism to the birth of a new nation, South Sudan. South Sud an becomes Africa’s 54th nation and the world’s 193rd independent nation.

The three-day warning strike planned by the Nigerian Labour Congress to push home their demand for N18,000 Minimum wage has been called off  this is after much deliberation between the labour and the Federal Government and labour. Details soon