Daily Archives: January 15, 2013
FG to deploy troops to Mali this week –Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan has disclosed that Nigerian troops will be deployed before next week to Mali to help restore peace to that country. Jonathan disclosed this when he hosted members of the diplomatic corps resident in Nigeria to cocktail yesterday ... Read More »
PDP finally kicks out Oyinlola
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP], Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, yesterday installed the Deputy National Secretary, Mr. Solomon Onwe, as Acting National Secretary. Former Osun State governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, was last Friday removed as national secretary Read More »
…Oyinlola remains our National Secretary –Osun PDP
In spite of last week’s judgment of a Federal High Court, Abuja that nullified the election of former Osun State governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola as the National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the state chapter has insisted that ... Read More »
Controversial OML 30: NUPENG, stakeholders fault choice of Heritage Oil
All has certainly not been heard on the award of a 45 per cent equity in one of Nigeria’s more lucrative oil blocks, OML 30, to Heritage Oil, a relatively unknown British-based firm whose promoter and CEO, Tony Buckingham, is ... Read More »
Gunmen kidnap mother of Bayelsa speaker
The mother of the embattled speaker of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Mrs Betinah Okunwa Benson has been kidnapped. Sources said the 70-year-old woman was kidnapped at Korokorosei, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state. The Speaker, Konbowei ... Read More »
Ademowo finished his term, not retired as Archbishop –Justice Ogunade
Following some reports that the former Archbishop of the Ecclesiastical Province of Lagos, Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Most Revd. Adebola Ademowo, was retired based on some serious allegations, the Chairman, House of Laity of the church, Justice Babasola Ogunade, ... Read More »
Imo dep gov’s protocol officer kidnapped, killed
The protocol officer to the Imo State Deputy Governor, Chief Laz Anyanwu was yesterday evening found dead in Owerri four days after he was reportedly kidnapped near Government House, Owerri, the Imo State capital. Anyanwu, a former director of administration ... Read More »
Nasarawa boils
•10 killed as Fulani herdsmen sack village •Over 5,000 residents displaced Read More »
Fraud: EFCC arraigns Kaduna deputy speaker, others
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday arraigned Kaduna State Deputy Speaker, Mato Dogara at the Federal High Court, Kaduna, over alleged N17 million fraud. Dogara, who was arraigned on a two-count charge alongside the former interim caretaker chairman of ... Read More »
Ondo commissioner slaps director
Ondo State Commissioner for Transport, Mr Nicolas Tofowomo yesterday threw decorum to the wind as he openly slapped a director in the Ministry of Works, Mr M.J Afeniforo severally over a trivial issue. The commissioner was said to have approached ... Read More »
