The Public Accounts Committee of the House of Representatives is winding up its investigations into alleged non-remittance of revenue to the Federation Account by 31 federal government agencies in a few days, LEADERSHIP SUNDAY has learned. According to...
Some former state governors currently being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged financial crimes have been gripped by fear. The reason: in six months, their cases will be decided. Chief justice of Nigeria (CJN)...
The opposition parties yesterday scored a major point against the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, when various election petitions tribunals upheld the governorship election of the Nasarawa State governor, Tanko Al-Makura, and his Borno Stat...
Embattled Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State yesterday dared the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, which has withheld his clearance to run for a second term, and declared his participation in the November 19 gubernatorial primary. Governor Timipre ...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday expressed dismay over the manner in which his proposed six-year single tenure for every president in the country had been misconstrued by some persons who thought he wanted to extend his current tenure in office. J...
Acting president of the Appeal Court, Justice Dalhatu Adamu, might have bowed to pressure by reinstating the Borno State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, which he inexplicably disbanded on Thursday. Apart from reinstating the panel, Justice Ada...
The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) is to commence haulage of petroleum products and agricultural produce across the country, the Minister of Transport, Alhaji Idris Umar, has said. The minister said this in Ilorin yesterday at the twin flag-o...
The terrorist sect popularly referred to as Boko Haram has carried out its greatest destruction of life and property so far: multiple attacks in three major cities in the north-east geopolitical zone of the country left about 80 people dead, worship pl...
A notable United States based civil society organisation, Fund for Peace, has blamed the eruption of violence in different parts of the country on the ascension of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan to the presidency, in violation of the Peoples Democratic Party (P...
Legal experts yesterday examined the outcomes of presidential election petitions over the years and suggested reasons why Nigeria’s incumbent presidents always win at the tribunals and at the Supreme Court despite the weight of evidence adduced b...
The deputy governor of Gombe State, Mr. David Albashi, died yesterday in a German hospital of injuries he received in a car crash on Aug. 28. A statement by the secretary to the Gombe State government, Alhaji Abubakar Bage, said Albashi died in the ear...
Three suspected suicide bombers believed to be members of the Boko Haram sect yesterday lost their lives in separate bomb blasts that rocked the Borno State capital, barely 48 hours to Sallah celebrations. Eyewitnesses said that the three men died in t...
The minister of petroleum resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has stated that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is not above the law and does not perceive itself as such. Alison–Madueke stated this yes...
The presidency has revised the major elements in the revenue framework in the proposed 2012 budget, though the budget proposal is yet to be officially forwarded to the National Assembly for consideration.The director, Budget Office, Dr. Bright Okogu, d...
The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) yesterday stated that the issue of workers’ salaries prompted it to share N611 billion to the three tiers of government.The minister of state for finance, Dr. Yerima Ngama, stated this yesterday...