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Five Abuja based lawyers have dragged President Goodluck Jonathan before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja over Nigeria’s increasing debt profile of $44 billion. They also slammed his failure to set limit to the amount of consolidated debt of...
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, yesterday denied any existing conflict in the management of the president’s media and information process. This was even as he said that the newly appointed Senior Special...
President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, received a five-man delegation from Ghana, led by that country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Alhaji Muhammad Mumuni. He brought a special message from President John Dramane ...
Lagos Coroner, Mr. Komolafe Oyetade was, yesterday, intimated of the last 15-minute journey of the ill- fated Dana airline flight 0992 before it crashed at Iju-Ishaga, Lagos on June 3, 2012. A witness, Mr. Rafiq Olubukola Arogunjo, an Air T...
Alhaji Aminu Soro, the Sokoto State Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps ( NSCDC) said on Tuesday that proactive security measures had been adopted to confront terrorist attacks in the state. "We have deployed anti-bomb dispo...
The National Publicity Secretary of All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Mr Emma Eneukwu, said on Tuesday that the country was not ripe for the creation of state police. The National Publicity Secretary, Mr Emma Eneukwu, made the remark in an interview wi...
Foreign Minister Olugbenga Ashiru on Tuesday in Abuja said the Nigerian former diplomat detained in Venezuela had retired from service and no longer enjoyed diplomatic immunity. ``The information at my disposal is that Mr Olarotimi Ajayi ceased to be a...
The police in Gwagwalada, Abuja, on Tuesday, said that a missing baby boy of about a year was found at Gwako, FCT, and brought to the Gwagwalada Police Station. The boy was said to be found crying along the roadside in Gwako on July 25. Madam Hussaina ...
The University of Jos on Tuesday inducted 44 newly graduated Pharmacists and called on them to stay and practice in Nigeria to increase the pharmacists' ratio per population. Prof. Hayward Mafuyai, the university’s Vice Chancellor, in an addr...
Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati yesterday denied any existing conflict in the management of the president’s media and information process, saying the newly appointed Senior Special Adviser t...
US House and Senate negotiators announced an agreement late Monday on a bill that would significantly tighten sanctions against Iran and companies that help Iran develop its energy resources or advance its nuclear program. The new Iran Threat Reduction...
President Obama yesterday told supporters at a campaign event in New York City that, if the election were held today, he would win. "So the upshot is if the election were held today, I think it would be close, but I think we'd win," Obama...
Dr. Doyin Okupe says his appointment as Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Public Affairs to President Goodluck Jonathan does not suggest conflict or friction in the Presidency’s information management process. Okupe spoke at a joint media briefin...
Justice Abubakar Umar has further adjourned to Sept. 26 the adoption of final written addresses in a suit filed by the EFCC against one Adeolu Olugbenga. The EFCC arraigned Olugbenga in 2004 for allegedly conspiring and obtaining the sum of N3 mil...
Justice Maudashiru Oniganyi of the FCT High Court, on Tuesday in Abuja warned the police not to expose the judiciary to ridicule. Oniyangi gave the warning following complaints by counsel to one Habibu Musa, Mr Issac Abah, that the police failed to fil...