Daily Archives: November 28, 2012
Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) said the number of fraud and forgeries cases in the Nigerian banking system increased by 53 per cent, as the country lost N4.07 billion to fraud cases in 2011. The NDIC, in its 2011 annual ... Read More »
Violence mars PDP’s screening of aspirants for Bayelsa LG poll
The clash took place just as Governor Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State tasked the Nigeria Police and the State Security Service to conduct detailed checks on the over 97 aspirants seeking to clinch the ticket of the PDP for ... Read More »
Staff jubilate as FG sacks Onagoruwa, BPE boss
The Federal Government yesterday sacked the Director-General, Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE), Ms. Bolanle Onagoruwa. The Presidency may be implementing a recommendation of the Senate ad hoc committee, which allegedly found her Read More »
Gunmen kill 9 in fresh attacks
Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram yesterday attacked a Divisional Police Station at Kala/Balge, Gen Mamman Shuwa’s Local Government, North of Borno, killing five policemen while a police officer was wounded. Sources said the gunmen who Read More »
Sack half of civil servants – CBN gov
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has raised alarm over Federal Government’s huge recurrent expenditure, which he said takes over 70 per cent of government revenue in salaries to workers in the domestic Read More »
10 in bank robbery in Auchi
No fewer than 10 persons, including three soldiers were shot dead in Auchi on Monday evening in a coordinated robbery attack on four banks which threw the polytechnic town into pandemonium with residents taking the incident as an Read More »
2 prophetesses sold day-old baby for N.3m
Two prophetesses have been arrested by the police in Aba, the commercial hub of Abia State for stealing and selling day-old baby girl, the child of one Grace, 23, from Abiriba in Ohafia Local Government Area of the state. Read More »
Jumbo pay: PPPRA blows N5.72bn on staff
Federal lawmakers were shocked yesterday when they learnt that the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) spent N5.72 billion as salaries and allowances on just 249 staff in 2012. Read More »
Fashola drags Jonathan to Reps
Lagos State governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) yesterday dragged President Goodluck Jonathan before the House of Representatives for allegedly frustrating a $600 million loan from the World Bank. Scuttling the loan, Read More »
Insider job suspected in SARS attack
Less than 48 hours after the embarrassing attack and release of Boko Haram detainees allegedly by their members, information has continued to turn in that there must have been an insider job in the act. Sources within and outside the ... Read More »
