Italian footballer’s coffin in stadium for final salute
Thousands of fans attended a memorial ceremony on Tuesday at the home stadium in Tuscany of footballer Piermario Morosini, who died suddenly of a heart attack during a game on Saturday.
C’ttee wants EFCC, ICPC, FRSC, others scrapped
ABUJA – The continuous existence of some Federal Government agencies and parastatals was put in doubt yesterday as the Presidential Committee on the Restructuring and Rationalisation of federal agencies said their creation was an aberration and a drain on national purse.
Jonathan, Okonjo-Iweala congratulate Kim
The Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has congratulated the World Bank president elect, Mr. Jim Yong Kim. She told a press conference in Abuja, last night that she was prepared to work with him.
Resume talks with Boko Haram, Northern elders urge Jonathan
NORTHERN leaders and elders, yesterday, called on President Goodluck Jonathan to resume talks with the Boko Haram sect and prosecute the issue to a logical conclusion if their activities must be brought to a halt.
Nigeria’s banking crisis over – AMCON
Managing Director, Asset Management Company of Nigeria, AMCON, yesterday, said Nigeria’s banking crisis was over and the sector’s earnings should see a substantial recovery when results come in for the first quarter of 2012 just as the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has disclosed that the nation’s external reserves rose by 3.63 per cent.
Igbos should forget 2015 presidency – Nwabueze
CONSTITUTIONAL lawyer, Professor Ben Nwabueze has been in the forefront in the agitation for a national conference to address the multifarious problems facing the country. In this interview, Nwabueze, who is also the convener of Project Nigeria re-echoed the call for a national conference just as he asserts the impracticability of the South East region producing the president come 2015 owing to the current power sharing formula. Excerpts:
