Why grains importation won’t happen soon – Stakeholders
There may be delay in implementation of the zero-tariff grains importation policy of the federal government as Financial Vanguard reliably learnt at the weekend that the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) is yet to receive a comprehensive list of the firms to select for participation in the intervention programme.
I’ve now learnt my lesson – Bode George
GREAT celebrations heralded the release of former deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode Ibiyinka George, from the Kirikiri Maximum Prison, Lagos, yesterday, after serving two-year jail term, as hundreds of party supporters and well wishers welcomed him to a warm reception.
I have graduated from the university of life, says Bode George
GREAT celebration heralded the release of former South West People Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman, Chief Olabode Ibiyinka George from the Maximum Prison in Kirikiri in Lagos yesterday as hundreds of party supporters and well wishers welcomed him to a warm reception.
I’ve blueprint to turn Nigeria around – Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan took his campaign train to Anambra and Delta states yesterday, and declared that he has what it takes to turn Nigeria into the nucleus of a petro-chemical revolution in Africa.
Rival candidates dazed, wait on INEC
CONFUSION and shock was still hanging over the political course of opposition gubernatorial candidates in the five or six States affected by the Wednesday High Court judgment extending the time in office of their governors.
Reps pass FOI Bill
THE House of Representatives, Thursday , responded to yearnings of the populace to have accountability in our public life as it passed the Freedom of Information Bill, 11 years after it was first introduced in the National Assembly.
Contracts for Apapa-Oshodi Expressway awarded, says Daggash
Minister of Works, Senator Sanusi Daggash said yesterday that the contracts for the rehabilitations of the deteriorated wharf-Mile 2-Oshodi carriageways in Lagos State have been awarded to two construction firms, Julius Berger PLC and Borini Prono.
Jonathan vows to tackle erosion manace in S/East
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has promised that the Federal Government would tackle squarely, the erosion menace that is threatening Abia state, and indeed the entire South East Zone.
Court stops guber polls in five states
A FEDERAL High Court in Abuja, yesterday, barred the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from conducting gubernatorial elections in five states of the federation in April, saying vacancy would only exist in the affected states next year.
PRESIDENTIAL RACE: INEC is a quango, terminological deceit’ Rev. Okotie
Reverend Chris Okotie, founder and senior pastor of Household of God Ministries is not new to politics; having taken a shot at the presidency twice earlier in 2003 and in 2007. In fact, he is one of the two veterans of that contest. The other, of course, being General Muhammadu Buhari who is currently parading another pastor- Tunde Bakare, as his running mate.
10 SANs to probe CJN, Salami
THE Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, yesterday constituted a 13-man committee, comprising 10 Senior Advocates of Nigeria, to probe allegations of corruption levelled against the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, by the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami.
