By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA—President Umaru Yar’Adua yesterday promised that he would neither shield nor protect any public official who runs foul of the law or breaches the Code of Conduct for public officers. He spoke on a day the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Justice Constance Momoh called for abrogation of Section […]

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA — Director-General of the Inter-governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in West Africa (GIABA), Dr Abdullahi Shehu, yesterday in Abuja disclosed that Nigeria came top on the list of countries that has failed to comply with anti-money laundering standards as set out by the Economic Community of West […]

By Funmi Komolafe ABUJA—The meeting of representatives of the Federal Government and organised labour over the planned deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry ended in a deadlock yesterday. While government officials  led by the Minister of Finance, Alhaji Mansur Muktar, for several hours tried to convince labour on the merit of  the […]

By Abdulwahab Abdulah & Ifeanyi Okolie LAGOS—THE authorities of  the Kirikiri Maximum Prison may have tightened its rules of engagement  due to the horde of visitors  who besiege the gate daily, wanting  to see top politician, Chief Bode George. George, former chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), was twoweeks agojailed by a Lagos High […]

*Govt, kingmakers’ meeting deadlocked By Dayo Johnson AKURE—THE crisis trailing the deposition of the Deji of Akureland, Oba Adepoju Adesina, has deepened as the peace meeting convened by the Ondo State Government with the aggrieved kingmakers and high chiefs ended in a deadlock. Also, no fewer than 50 thugs yesterday disrupted a meeting of the […]