LG FUNDS: Why NFIU can’t confront govs — Fayemi
EKITI State Governor and Chairman of the Nigeria GovernorsNGF, Dr Kayode Fayemi, marked one year in office of his second term last Wednesday. He was denied re-election in 2014 and had to wait for 48 months before returning to the Government. In this interview with journalists in Lagos, Fayemi spoke on how the re-election hiatus adversely affected Ekiti. He also spoke on the need for restructuring, why states must have joint accounts with local councils and why Labour should jettison its proposed industrial action minimum wage.
Egypt to press for outside mediator in Ethiopia dam dispute
Egypt will push Ethiopia this week to agree to an external mediator to help resolve a deepening dispute over a giant hydropower dam being built on Ethiopia’s Blue Nile, officials said on Sunday. Egypt sees the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) as an existential risk, fearing it will threaten scarce water supplies in Egypt […]
Civil Society Organization wants Sylva sacked for IOCS debt claim
By Dirisu Yakubu A Civil Society Organization, the Accountable Leadership For Better Nigerian Initiative, ALBNI, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to relieve the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva of his duties over claims by the latter that debt owed the federal government by the International Oil Companies, IOCs would be difficult […]
REVEALED: Men rent wives out to rich tourists in East Africa for income
Poverty along the Kenyan Coast is now forcing residents to rent out their spouses to rich tourists for some income, it has emerged. To beat the rising levels of poverty, some Kenyans have been handing over their wives or husbands to the tourists who want a good time before reuniting with them after the job. […]
Yuletide: Nigerian Navy reads riot act to vandals, smugglers
By Emma Una – Calabar The Nigerian Navy has warned petroleum products, thieves, smugglers and vandals to stay away from the country’s waterways as any of them caught carrying out illegal activity would be made to face the wrath of the law. Hading the warning at the weekend in Calabar, Commodore Vincent Okeke Commander NNS […]
Police arrest six cultists terrorising Alapere area, Lagos
Operatives of “Operation Crush’’ attached to Alapere Police Division in Lagos have arrested six suspected cultists.
