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The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Terence McCulley, has applauded President Goodluck Jonathan for removing Farida Waziri as the chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). This is the US first public reaction to Farida’s r...
Worried that political parties are not adhering to true democratic processes in nominating candidates who will represent the party in elections, the House of Representatives has mandated its committee on inter-parliamentary affairs to investigate and a...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday commissioned the Nigerian Customs Command and Staff College in Gwagwalada, which also doubles as the World Custom Organisation Regional training centre for the West and central Africa Custom Administration. Speakin...
Minister of Finance and Coordinating minister for the economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala yesterday informed the House of Representatives’ Committee on Finance that the nation’s economic agenda was hinged on reducing the country’s r...
The nation’s debt has climbed to more than a five-year high at $47.9 billion (about N7.47 trillion) after it was restructured by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. The real worry is that it might take more than 13.4 years for the Federal G...
Ahead of January 14 governorship election in Adamawa State, Yola the state capital came to a standstill as Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, Nasarawa State Governor, Tanko Al-Makura, and other executive members of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) yesterd...
The Deputy Governor of Benue State, Chief Steven Lawani, has maintained that the rule of law will prevail in the ongoing legal tussle in Benue State between the governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Prof. Steven Ugbah and Gove...
Cotton farmers in the country have been called upon to rise up to the challenge of reviving the farming of cotton. Nasarawa State Governor, Umaru Tanko Al-makura, threw the challenge in Lafia, yesterday, in a goodwill message at the capacity building a...
Bauchi State Governor, Malam Isa Yuguda, has been commended for appointing over 6,000 youths as Special Assistants and Personal Assistants respectively. A northern based social group, Northern Youths Consultative Forum, made the commendation in B...
Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has described the decision by President Goodluck Jonathan to present an amendment bill before the National Assembly to facilitate a single tenure of office for executive office holders as immoral and ridiculous. Ac...
FRANCIS AGBO and OSA OKHOMINA inYenagoa write on the reconciliatory moves by Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Bayelsa State for the 2012 polls. According to watchers of Bayelsa State politics,...
OLAOLU OLADIPO writes on the former governor of Oyo State, Chief Rashidi Ladoja’s deft political moves since he left office in 2007. Since his impeachment in January 2006 and subsequent reinstatement 11 months after, the political career o...
Hon. Mohammed Tahir Monguno, who represents Monguno/Marte/Nganza Federal Constituency Of Borno State, is the Chairman, House Committee on Agriculture. In this interview with CHRISTIANA ESEBONU, he says Nigeria must subsidise agriculture for the country...
Lack of quorum at the Supreme Court, yesterday, stalled hearing in the appeal filed by the Congress for Progressive Change,CPC, challenging the decision of the Presidential Tribunal which upheld the victory of President Goodluck Jonathan in the April g...
The Kogi State Justice Party (JP) governorship candidate, in the just concluded gubernatorial election, Mrs Aisha Abubakar Audu, has filed a suit before a Federal High Court in Abuja challenging the election of Alhaji Idris Wada of the Peop...