YESTERDAY’S weekly Executive Council of the Federation, EXCOF, provided an ample opportunity for cabinet members to pay glowing tributes to late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua as ministers took turns to eulogize the life and times of the immediate past Nigerian leader in a valedictory session.

Indications that President Goodluck Jonathan might contest the 2011 presidential election emerged, yesterday, as elder statesman and founding member of the People’s Domcratic Party, PDP, Prince Emma Anyanwu, has said the Yar’Adua/Jonathan joint ticket remains valid till 2015.

The new Acting Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prince Solomon Adedeji, who resumed office, yesterday, promised that his leadership would focus on what he called ”the purification of the voters’ register’ to ensure a credible election in 2011.

The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Malam Lamido Sanusi, has blamed the slow rate of economic growth on the fraudulent activities and sharp practices being perpetrated by the management of some banks and other financial services providers.

By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA—The Governor of Bauchi State, Alhaji Isa Yuguda has approved the compulsory retirement of Justice Habibu Idris Shall from office. The approval is sequel to the recommendation of the National Judicial Council, NJC. In a statement by the Secretary to NJC, Danladi Halilu, Justice Shall’s sin was that he fought on the […]