Some lawyers yesterday blamed the controversy generated by the planned introduction of non-interest banking to Nigeria on the Central Bank Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. A former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr Olisa Agbakoba (SAN...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday re-arraigned a former Plateau State Deputy Governor, Michael Boatmang, before a Federal High Court in Abuja. The EFCC had arraigned the accused on a 31-count charge of alleged corruption, m...
Mallam Sule Yau Sule is the media aide of former Kano State governor and the presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) in the last general elections, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau. In this interview with ABDULAZIZ ABDULAZIZ, Sule bares hi...
A 30-year-old commercial motocycle rider, Yusuf Aliyu of Rigachikwu in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State has been arrested by the Kaduna Police Command over the death of a rival lover, Yahaya Mohammed also known as Kaura, whom he allegedly st...
No fewer than 82 of the 620 corps members deployed to Bauchi State for the current service year have been redeployed to other states. The NYSC Coordinator in the state, Mr Abraham Tizhe, made the announcement yesterday at the Orientation Camp in Ganjuw...
The Lagos state government yesterday issued a 48 hour notice to owners of tankers and heavy duty vehicles parked on the Mile 2 Apapa Ports to remove them or they would be confiscated. . The State Commissioner for Transportation, Mr. Kayode Opeifa who i...
Public outcry yesterday greeted President Goodluck Jonathan’s proposed six-year single term for the president and state governors from 2015.Nigerians from all walks of life rejected the proposal, saying the development was not the country’s...
Efforts to actualise President Goodluck Jonathan’s gas revolution agenda were made this week when a team of experts and foreign investors arrived Koko in Warri North local government area of Delta State to commence preliminary site inspection of ...
Overwhelmed by the financial burden thrown up by the payment of the N18,000 new minimum wage recently approved by the federal government, Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola has imposed some austerity measures to cut the cost of running government i...
The chief of defence staff (CDS), Air Chief Marshal Oluseyi Petirin, has said that the armed forces and the Joint Task Force (JTF) will not enter into dialogue with the Boko Haram, saying that the soldiers are purely in Maiduguri, Borno State to restor...
One of the lawyers, indicted by the committee setup by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to investigate the crisis in the judiciary Yahaya Mahmood has said that he was not given fair hearing on the grounds that he was neither summoned nor asked to mak...
Chief Inspector of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Abdulraheem Jimoh has disclosed to a Lagos High Court in Ikeja how the former Managing Director of the Bank, Dr Erastus Akingbola allegedly transferred the bank’s £8.5million into his domiciliar...
The House of Representatives yesterday resumed the process of amending the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FAA), 2007 which among others is seeking a mandatory remittal of one-third of yearly internally generated earnings of Government Ministries Department...
The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) yesterday wrote to President Goodluck Jonathan, asking him to direct the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) to probe the Attorney Gene...
Second Republic Steel Minister, Wantaregh Paul Unongo, in this interview with journalists, speaks on the desperation for power by politicians, the Boko Haram challenge, his legendary philanthropy as well as how he rejected late MKO Abiola’s N68 m...