Tukur dares govs, replaces Oyinlola
The battle in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP hardened, yesterday, after the National Chairman of the party Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, planted his only loyalist in the National Working Committee, NWC, Solomon Onwe as acting national secretary. The governors, who are opposed to Tukur in a riposte, vowed that any action injurious to the continuation in office of Chief Olagunsoye Oyinlola as national secretary would also mean Tukur’s exit from office.
Former Edo AG cries for justice over imprisonment
One year after he was sent to prison by Justice Adamu Hobon, then judge of a Federal High Court in Benin, Edo State, immediate past Attorney- General and Commissioner for Justice in Edo State, Dr. Osagie Obayuwana, has written a fresh petition to the Chief Justice of the Federation, lamenting that he was yet to get justice from the National Judicial Council.
NURTW members clash leaves 8 injured in Abuja
Over eight persons yesterday escaped death but suffered various degrees of injuries from machete cuts as members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, branch 2, clashed at Federal Housing Authority FHA Bus stop at Lugbe, Abuja.
Occupy Nigeria Anniversary: It ’ll take Nigeria 70 yrs to pay N6.6trn debt – Boyo
*Disagrees with CBN on inflation rate, economy
*Inflation will be reduced —CBN
*We dare FG to increase fuel price —Bakare
LAGOS — EMOTIONS ran high, Monday, as foremost Economist, Mr Henry Boyo, lamented the country’s huge debt profile estimated at N6.6 trillion, fearing that it might take about three generations to pay the debt.
Obasanjo working for Amosun’s second term – Ogun PDP Chieftain
ABEOKUTA – FACTIONAL leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogun State, Buruji Kashamu, Monday accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of working for the re-election of the state Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun in 2015.
The fire always
THE Petroleum Products Marketing Company Limited should have many suits on its neck for the danger it poses to lives by not securing pipelines it uses in transporting products to different parts of the country.
Experts seek multi-faceted approach to housing
The widely held view among built environment professionals is that the government has no business in direct housing production. To these experts, the government should only provide the enabling environment and allow individuals and the private sector to go into direct housing production.
Crisis: Ohanaeze gets 5-man reconciliation c’ttee
A pressure group,Njiko Igbo, has set up a five-man committee to resolve the crisis in apex Igbo cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, over election of its leadership.
Ex-lawmaker sues EFCC over alleged rights’ violation
A former member of the House of Representatives, Napoleon Gbinije, has dragged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, before an Abuja High Court over alleged breach of his fundamental human right.
Subsidy scam: Local shippers decry lack of patronage … Bemoan lull in business
Indigenous Ship Owners Association (ISAN) has decried the lull in coastal shipping business, following the refusal of oil marketers to imports petroleum products occasioned by the petroleum subsidy scam.
TRIBUTE: Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh and the justiceability of history
THEY have stabbed themselves for freedom – jumped into the waves for freedom – fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and burned, and shot-and their tyrants have been their historians—Lydia Maria.
