The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has declined to release former Taraba State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Sanni Abubakar Danladi, who was arrested by its operatives on Wednesday morning over mismanagement of funds meant for the execution of Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, projects in the state.

LAST week, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammed Sa’ad Abubakar III, condemned the government’s crackdown on Boko Haram and said that President Goodluck Jonathan should grant “total amnesty” to the group’s members.

Kidney problems have been dubbed a silent killer. The disease afflicts both young and old people alike. From the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, (LUTH) to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, (LASUTH) the lamentations of kidney patients are the same — “Treatment is very expensive.”

THE only song he knows is loyalty. Complete loyalty. Not half measure. It is either one is 100 percent loyal or one is not loyal. Not even 99.99 percent loyalty is good enough in his estimation.

The Federal Government has commenced the implementation of the 2013 budget with the release of N400 billion capital vote, after sharing N886.402 billion among the three tiers of government.

Flying Eagles coach John Obuh has said as defending champions, the Flying Eagles will not underrate any team at the 2013 African Youth Championship in Algeria.

Call it a surprise, you won’t be wrong. Refer to it as grand strategy, you are close to it. But whichever case, the development has left the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), two of the constituents of the four political parties seeking merger under the name All Progressive Congress (APC) bleeding ferociously on the heels of the discovery of the existence of another party, African Peoples Congress (APC), which shares the same acronym with it.

LAGOS— Nigeria Customs Service and owners of no fewer than 500 trailers loaded with essential commodities are at currently daggers drawn at Seme border over seizure of the trucks said to be in transit in the country on their way to Republic of Chad and some other African countries.

We’re dealing with corruption in high places — Offor
My story — Jude Agabso
Let the truth prevail — PDP
A once cordial relationship between the governor and deputy governor of Imo State runs into a crisis of confidence.

MEMBERS of the House of Representatives, yesterday, summoned the Director-General, Budget Office, Mr. Bright Okogwu, to appear before House Committees on Appropriation and Finance to explain the content of the letter he allegedly sent to Ministries, Departments and Agencies of Government, MDAs, to wait for the amended version of the 2013 Appropriation Act before implementation.