ORGANISED Labour has called on the Federal Government and National Assembly not to release security votes to state governors, who were unable to arrest the armed insurgency in their states.

President Goodluck Jonathan is forging ahead with his proposal for single term tenure for the President and Governors with consultations with ethnic nationality groups scheduled to commence, weekend.

ABIDJAN(AFP) – A British man and an Italian kidnapped in May in northern Nigeria appear for the first time since their capture in a video sent to AFP Wednesday in which they say their abductors are from Al-Qaeda. The roughly minute-long video sent to AFP in Abidjan is the first proof of life of the […]

WHAT is the population of Nigeria at any given time? We do not know. In terms of actual figures, we may never know because as we write now, there are numerous missing links; and between the idea and the reality, there are many shadows.

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.