Anambra govt, judiciary workers end face off – Courts reopen
AWKA AFTER four months of bickering and name -calling, the strike action by the judiciary workers in Anambra State has finally been called off, thanks to an agreement reached on December 31, 2015 between the workers and the state government. With the development, courts in the state, which had remained under lock for the past four months reopened on Monday.
Ambode appoints ex-FIRS boss, Omoigui-Okauru, others For N25bn ETF board
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday appointed a former Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Mrs. Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru to head the Board of Trustees for the N25billion State Employment Trust Fund (ETF).
Dalung, Onazi mourn NFF Head of Protocol, Ibrahim Abubakar
Minister of Youths and Sports, Solomon Dalung has commiserated with the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, over the death of its Head of Protocol, Ibrahim Abubakar, who was shot dead by some unidentified gunmen suspected to be armed robbers early on Wednesday at his residence in Abuja.
$2.1bn arms deal: EFCC not after us – NBC
ABUJA —The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) says it was not the primary target of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), when the anti-graft agency stormed the Commission’s premises on Monday. A source at the Commission, who spoke to Vanguard on the condition of anonymity, said that the anti-graft agency only visited the Commission to get some clarifications on an investigation about the involvement of an unnamed company in the ongoing $2.1 billion arms scandal.
Madrid mad to appoint Zidane, says Hitzfeld
Real Madrid’s decision to appoint Zinedine Zidane as their new coach has been described as “madness” by former Bayern Munich boss Ottmar Hitzfeld in an interview with Swiss daily Blick. “For him (Zidane) it is like winning the lottery jackpot. It is madness,” said the 66-year-old Hitzfeld, who ended a stellar coaching career after taking Switzerland to the 2014 World Cup.
Ambode appoints Professor Fagbohun LASU Vice-Chancellor
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, has approved the appointment of Professor Olanrewaju Adigun Fagbohun as the 8th substantive Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU).
NFF head of Protocol, Ibrahim Abubakar shot dead
Ibrahim Abubakar, head of protocol, Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), was on Wednesday shot dead by some suspected armed robbers at his residence.
Why we collected N53m from Anenih – Yakasai
Elder Statesman, Tanko Yakasai Wednesday confirmed that Chief Tony Anenih gave him and 8 other prominent northerners N53 million for advocacy visit to northern traditional rulers to mobilise their subjects for 2015 general election.
Fuel scarcity, electricity hike products of APC’s visionless economic policies’
The Chairman, Rivers State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bro Felix Obuah, has strongly asked Rivers citizens to be prepared to resist a visionless All Progressives Congres that has improvished them and destroyed the economy just as he criticized the increase in electricity tariffs as announced by the All Progressives Congress Federal Government through the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, describing the new power tariff regime as a further means of bringing hardship and suffering on Rivers electricity consumers and indeed all Nigerians, in the absence of affordable and available petroleum products.
Dare-devil armed robbers kill NFF’s protocol head
Nigeria Football Federation Protocol Head was murdered in cold blood by dare-devil armed on Wednesday
N82m Wole Soyinka Dinner: Rivers Commissioner seeks refund
Rivers State Information Commissioner , Dr Austin Tam-George has declared that the state government will demand a refund of the N82million expended by former Governor Amaechi on Professor Wole Soyinka’s dinner if it confirms that the Nobel Laureate received part of the the funds in cash.
