PROFESSOR Ben Nwabueze at his 80th birthday re-stated his idea of the Nigeria he wanted since his return to the country in 1962. He had thought Nigeria after independence would be the great nation that many foretold.

LAST week, Olusegun Obasanjo, addressed the Board of Trustees of the ruling PDP and made the startling request that Speaker Aminu Tambuwal and other PDP principal officers in the House of Representatives, resign from office in two years “to allow the rectification of the party’s zoning policy truncated by the present set of officers.”

Minister of National Planning, Dr Shamsuddeen Usman yesterday called for support towards the achievement of growth targets set in the National Implementation Plan, NIP, 2010-2013 in line with the Vision 20:2020 economic growth agenda.

THE Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, was guest at the weekly Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting, yesterday, where he x-rayed the performance of the economy with a submission that Gross Domestic Product, GDP, in the last seven months stood at 6.4 per cent, while it is expected to hit 7.85 per cent by December.

The Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, yesterday, said it has concluded plans to embark on an intensive nationwide assets Scrutinization exercise, aimed at ferreting public servants operating foreign bank accounts.It said such action would tantamount to a breach of the Code of Conduct for public officers in the county.

MINISTER of Power, Prof. Bart Nnaji, has announced the appointment of Akinwunmi Bada and Uzoma Achinanya as Chief Executive of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, one of the 18 Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, successor companies, and Executive Director of Market System Operations, Presiden-tial Task Force on Power, PTFP, respectively.

THE remains of business mogul, Rev. Josephine Kuteyi, was, yesterday, committed to mother earth in her country home, Ondo, Ondo State.

Her widower, Chief Kuteyi Waheed and the Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, fought back tears as the deceased was lowered to the grave at her Samakinwa country home in Ondo town.

Following the seizure of abandoned tankers and other articulated vehicles on the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway at the expiration of the 48-hour ultimatum, members of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, yesterday, threatened to embark on strike.

Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State has faulted the report credited to his Akwa Ibom counterpart, Chief Godswill Akpabio, that Cross River State has been receiving N600 million monthly from the Federal Government since the state’s 76 oil wells were ceded to Akwa Ibom State.

ECONOMIC activities were paralysed in Edo State, yesterday, following the strike action embarked upon by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, over alleged failure of the state government to include teachers and staff of the Ministry of Justice in the recently approved new minimum wage.

AHEAD of the National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Acting National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje yesterday promised a free and fair convention.

THE Lagos State House of Assembly has set up a three-man committee to investigate allegation of financial misconduct against the General Manager of the Lagos Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, by the aggrieved Internally Displaced People, IDP at Ajegunle in Agboyi-Ketu area of the state.

Sivasspor striker, Michael Eneramo, has expressed disappointment that he featured for Nigeria’s Super Eagles as an international player. Eneramo has made 10 appearances for the Super Eagles and has scored thrice. The 25-year-old said after playing during the eras of  Amodu Shuaibu and Austin Eguavoen as Nigeria’s head coaches he expects to figure in the […]

President Goodluck Jonathan, Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State; former president-general of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Dr. Dozie Ikedife and Second Republic lawmaker, Chief Sylvester Nwobu-Alor, yesterday, described the death of Chief Edwin Ume-Ezeoke, former National Chairman of All Nigeria Peoples’ Party, ANPP, as a great loss to the country.

SIX persons were feared dead, yesterday, in Onitsha, Anambra State, during a shoot-out between policemen and alleged members of Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB.