ABUJA – STRONG indications emerged yesterday how the immediate past National Working Committee, NWC, of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in 2011 had an expenditure of N4.35 billion over N645.2 million incomes, leaving behind a deficit of N3.7 billion

YAR’ADUA did not contemplate becoming Nigeria’s president. He didn’t dream it and it didn’t even flicker in his mind.
I remember vividly that day in 2006 (can’t remember the exact date now) when he was invited to a house in the Aso Rock Villa. Present were two governors apart from Yar’Adua, one presidential assistant and one business magnate.

FORMER Director-General of the Centre for Democratic Studies, Prof. Omo Omoruyi, weekend, expressed worries over the location of one of the campaign offices of Edo State governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, General Charles Airhiavbere (rtd) adjacent to the secretariat of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN.

ABUJA—The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, yesterday, called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to begin inquiry into the allegation of how N30 billion was withdrawn from the vaults of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, during the failed third term agenda of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

As part of efforts to ensure realisation of the local content policy of the Federal Government in the oil and gas sector, Samsung Heavy Industries, SHI, has sent the first group of 20 Nigerian youths to its shipyard in Geoje, South Korea, on an extensive training programme.