Senators, Reps query CBN over utilisation of N1trn revenue in 2015
THE joint Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives on Banking and Currency yesterday queried the nation’s apex bank, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, for allegedly spending N1.062 trillion revenue above the N482.167 billion proposed income for the year 2015.
Soyinka’s Buhari rescue bid
LAST week’s call by Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on President Muhammadu Buhari to summon a conference of eggheads to help him chart ways out of our current economic woes was more loaded than met the ordinary eyes. It was a message garbed with uncaccustomed subtlety from Soyinka, who is usually finger-in-your-eye with words when addressing what he perceives as lapses in a regime he does not fancy.
Nigeria/Cameroon troops kill 23 Boko Haram terrorists, rescue 150 hostages
ABUJA — The Nigerian Army said, Tuesday night, that troops of 7 Division of Nigerian Army and Cameroonian forces killed 20 Boko Haram terrorists and destroyed four AK-47 rifles.
Anambra Central rerun: Where are Umeh’s opponents?
SINCE the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, fixed March 5, 2016 as the date for the rerun of the Anambra Central senatorial election, it would appear that 11 of the 12 candidates qualified to participate in the re-run after the disqualification of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, are not taking the exercise serious.
MTN withdraws suit against NCC, pays N50bn ‘in good faith’
ABUJA— MTN has withdrawn its suit against the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and paid N50 billion ($250 million) towards an amicable resolution of the fine imposed on the telecoms giant.
ANAMBRA PDP CRISIS: S-Court rejects INEC’s request to review judgment
The Supreme Court, yesterday, refused application by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, seeking a review of the judgment it delivered on January 29, which resolved the protracted leadership crisis that rocked the Anambra State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
