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.
Kidnappers prevent judge from sitting for two months
You may not believe it, but it is true. Kidnappers in Delta State have gone a notch higher by writing to a High Court judge threatening to abduct her if she refused to pay N20million ransom.
20 mini-skirt ladies massacred in Maiduguri, JTF places bounty on Boko Haram leaders
Barely 24 hours after over ten people were slaughtered in Maiduguri, twenty ladies in mini skirts and trousers were yesterday slaughtered in their separate homes in the metropolis by yet to be identified terrorists.
State of the Nation: Senate set to battle Jonathan
THE Senate, yesterday, drew the battle line when it threatened to over rule the President should he not assent to a bill asking him to make the State of the Nation Address annually
CJN bows, agrees to swear-in Jombo-Ofor
The National Judicial Council, NJC, after an emergency meeting in Abuja yesterday, persuaded the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mariam Aloma Muhktar, to rescind her decision and swear-in Justice Ifeoma Jombo-Ofor to the Appeal Court Bench.
BUDGET PERFORMANCE : Reps walk minister out, want another sacked
MINISTER of Science and Technology, Professor Ita Okon Bassey-Ewa, was, yesterday, walked out by the House of Representatives over his inability to convert budget figures into percentages in his ministry’s 2012 budget.
Obasanjo faults Jonathan on Odi
The alleged strained relationship between President Goodluck Jonathan and his one time benefactor, former President Olusegun Obasanjo was further stretched, yesterday, after Obasanjo rebuffed the incumbent president’s claims that the army invasion of Odi in Bayelsa State in 1999 was a failure.
No negotiations with Boko Haram – Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, dismissed insinuations of a secret dialogue between the administration and the Boko Haram just as he declared former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s invasion of Odi in Bayelsa State in 1999 as a failure that did not help to curb militancy in the Niger Delta region.
Oil subsidy must go – Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan declared, yesterday, that fuel subsidy must be removed, arguing that this was the only way to encourage private investment in the nation’s refineries.
How Olusola Saraki lost battle to cancer – Son
“HE has been battling cancer for about five years. He was fine this morning. He was comfortable and even said his prayers. He died in the presence of one of my brothers, my mother and my two sisters. He gave up the ghost at about 6 a.m.”
BOKO HARAM: OBJ blames Jonathan
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, blamed the incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan for allowing the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, to grow into a monster that is now uncontrollable by his failure to act on a report submitted to the government.
