Daily Archives: December 12, 2012
Senate declares Maina wanted over N159bn missing pension funds
Senate Committees on States and Local Government Administration, and Establishment and Public Service have declared Chairman of the Pension Task Team (PTT), AbdulRasheed Maina wanted over the whereabouts of N159 billion pension funds. Joint Committee Chairman, Senator Aloysius Etok said Read More »
Gunmen kill STF man, 2 others in Riyom, Plateau
After weeks of respite, unknown gunmen again struck at two villages in Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State in the early hours of yesterday and killed a member of the Special Task Force deployed to the area and two ... Read More »
Oshiomhole warns landlords over new tax
Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole has warned that any landlord who increases rent of their property as part of the land use charge will have the building confiscated by government and turned into a public school. The governor, who gave ... Read More »
Fashola, a statesman-Kalu
Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fashola has been described as a statesman by former Abia State governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu for gracing the Chinua Achebe’s colloqium in far away United States. Fashola braved ethnic sentiments to honour the renowned writer ... Read More »
19 days to go… Marketers to share N161bn subsidy
With only 19 days to the end of 2012, the President yesterday asked the National Assembly for another N161,617,756,316.39 (N161.617billion) to settle outstanding fuel subsidy payments for the year even as the House of Representatives probes 2012 budget implementation afresh. ... Read More »
Fuel subsidy: Governors drag FG before Supreme Court
Governors of the 36 states have dragged the Federal Government to the Supreme Court over its alleged deductions of revenue accruing to the country between 2007 till date for the purpose of funding the fuel subsidy regime. Describing the actions ... Read More »
Doctors’ strike grounds LUTH, as patients are discharged
Clinical activities at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital [LUTH], Idi-Araba have been grounded following an indefinite strike embarked upon by the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), LUTH, over a new tax law on the doctors. The new tax law, which ... Read More »
Ndume call logs with Boko Haram admitted in court
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday admitted into evidence, telephone conversations and text messages call logs allegedly exchanged by Senator Ali Ndume and the Chief Spokesman of the Boko Haram , Ali Konduga. The call logs and SMS ... Read More »
Kenny Ogungbe now Raypower MD
Ace presenter and producer, Mr. Kenny Ogungbe has been appointed Managing Director of the premier radio station in the country – RayPower FM–Network and FAAJI 106.5FM. This was contained in a statement signed by Johnson Onime, Director, Corporate Communication and ... Read More »
A day like no other
Today is the twelfth day of the twelfth month of the year, 2012 – the much anticipated 12-12-12. It is a special date that occurs only once in a century. The last one was in 1912 and the next one ... Read More »
