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Anxiety heightened again all over the country on Monday over the true state of the health of President Umaru Yar’Adua. |
| Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, Abbe Meet Over MEND’s Fresh Attack |
Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday held a closed door meeting with the Minister of Defence , Maj.-Gen. Godwin Abbe (rtd.), over the reported resumption of attacks on oil installations by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta. MEND had in an email statement by its spokesman, Mr. Jomo Gbomo, on Saturday, said it had breached major crude oil delivery pipeline in the creeks of Abonnema, Rivers State. Read more... |
Anambra 2010: Okonkwo Seeks To Stop Election |
The legal tussles and controversies threatening the conduct of February 6, 2010 governorship election in Anambra State is far from over with ‘controversial’ Mr. Ifeanyi Okonkwo seeking an injunction from Awka Federal High Court to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC from going ahead with the election. Read more... |
| Sun Man Of The Year Fashola : The New Face Of Leadership |
| It was a unanimous judgment as the Board of Editors of The Sun Newspapers sat early last week to deliberate on who wins the Man of the Year diadem for 2009. Who succeeds Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, who won the laurel in 2008 for his single-minded commitment to the rule of law, which saw him wresting his purloined gubernatorial victory through the courts? Read more... |
| Bankole Defends Foreign Trips |
| Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole, has defended his globetrotting since he came to power, saying that the nation had benefited more than what was committed to the trips. According to him, he had been able to attract investments worth over $1billion into the economy. Responding to inquest by reporters at an interactive session that N52billion had been committed to tours between 2007 and 2009, Bankole said that the money was not a waste when converting the $1billion to Naira. Read more... |
| Petroleum Industry Bill: NNPC Seeks CBN Support |
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo, has solicited the cooperation of the Central Bank of Nigeria in the on going reform of the oil and gas sector for it to impact positively on the Nigerian economy. The GMD of the Corporation stated this while on a courtesy visit to the CBN Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, in Abuja on Wednesday. Read more... |
| Drama As Soludo, Ngige Walk Out On Obi During Debate |
Two governorship aspirants in Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo of the Peoples Democratic Party and Dr. Chris Ngige of the Action Congress, on Monday walked out on the state Governor, Mr. Peter Obi, during a debate organised for them. |
| Lagosians Support Fashola’s Plan To Introduce Resident ID Card Concerned Lagosians have expressed support for the Babatunde Fashola administration’s plan to introduce resident identification card in the state. Fashola had said, while presenting the 2010 budget to the State House of Assembly in Alausa, Ikeja, that his administration would introduce the ID card scheme in 2010. Read more... |
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