65-yr-old man, son arrested for robbery
AKURE-A 65 years old father and his 24 years old son were amongst armed robbery suspects, kidnappers and fraudsters paraded by the Ondo State Police Command Wednesday.
Ogbemudia, Akhigbe disagree over Edo PDP crisis
FORMER Chief of General Staff, Admiral Mike Akhigbe, Wednesday, disagreed with former Gover-nor of old Bendel State, Dr. Samuel Ogbemudia, on the factional crisis bedevilling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State.
Alleged N3.3bn fraud: Okereke-Onyiuke’s absence stalls trial
The absence of former Director-General of Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke, yesterday, stalled further hearing in the alleged N3.3 billion theft charge preferred against her before a Lagos High Court.
‘We came, we saw, he died’
THE American Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, on being told that imperialism’s ‘revolutionaries’ organised in the Libyan Transitional Council, NTC, had captured and killed Moammar Gaddafi in Sirte, tried an uneducated re-interpretation of Julius Ceasar’s famous quote: “Veni, vidi, vici”, which translates from Latin to: “I came, I saw, I conquered”.
ACF cautions Reps over EFCC Act
AS the House of Representatives is proposing to amend Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Act, national Vice Chairman of Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, Senator John Waku, weekend, cautioned members of the House to thread softly to avoid creating the impression that the lawmakers are only interested in shielding their colleagues being prosecuted by the anti-graft agency over corruption.
Reps c’ttee on FCT pledges support for Revenue Bill
Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Mr. Emmanuel Jime, has said the committee was committed to the speedy passage of the bill for an act to establish the FCT Board of Internal Revenue and other bills on the FCT pending at the National Assembly.
