Members of the House of Representatives may tinker with Section 12 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Act, 2003, to cause the ouster of EFCC chairman Mrs. Farida Waziri. LEADERSHIP SUNDAY gathered last night that if Section 12 (f) o...
Industrial action may be underway in Abia, Adamawa, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Kogi, Oyo, and several other states yet to pay the minimum wage of N18, 000 to their workers. Though the derivation and federation allocation principles leave some states at a ...
Senate President David Mark yesterday lamented the sorry state of the nation’s education sector, blaming it on the inability of successive governments to give it the attention it deserved. Senator Mark stated this while speaking at the 19th...
Two Bills pending before the House of Representatives, if passed into law, would duplicate functions of the National Food and Drug Administration Control, NAFDAC, the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC and the Vehicle Inspection Office, VIO. The Bill...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, which was established to combat graft in all its ramifications, appears to have gone into inertia because of its inability to try and convict high profile Nigerians who have allegedly stolen huge sums of mo...
Chairman, Senate Committee on Science and Technology, Sen. Robert Boroffice, said in Abuja on Thursday that the Senate would be very objective in deliberating on the proposed withdrawal of fuel subsidy. Boroffice told journalists that the outcome of th...
The Civic Duties Awareness Initiative (CIDAI), has condemned the Cross River State government over the purchase of a N13 billion ‘dead’ aircraft from the Rivers State government. CIDAI’s executive director, Mr. Emmanuel Ulayi, a...
Ita Solomon Enang, a lawyer and activist, represents Akwa Ibom North in the Senate where he serves as the chairman of the powerful Business and Rules Committee. He has made history as the longest serving legislator from Akwa Ibom State, having served a...
The recently released United Nations Environmental Programme report on oil activities in Ogoni might have achieved more than its intended outcome. While some communities are happy that the report will put some money in their pockets by way of com...
Amb.Vicki Huddleston, the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for in Africa, says that her country and Nigeria will strengthen ties in defence. Huddleston gave the assurance on Friday in Abuja when she paid a courtesy call on the Minister...
The N100 billion that the Delta State government recently borrowed from the Nigerian Stock Exchange for its development programmes has generated criticisms and counter claims by the opponents and supporters of the state governor. Kola Niyi-...
Some Islamic leaders in Lagos have called on the Senate not to entertain any debate on prostitution. The leaders said that any legislative process to legalise prostitution in the country was shameful, unreasonable and a celebration of immorality. The I...
As Nigeria celebrates this year’s World Standards Day 2011,the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) yesterday took its sensitisation campaign against substandard products to schools in the Federa...
The Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation is set to add colour to this year’s edition of the tourism market, Akwaaba, holding in Lagos from October 19-21, 2011. Accordingly, the corporation said in a statement that it would use the Akwaaba pla...
23 local government chairmen in Kaduna State have unanimously quashed the allegation levelled against them of a bribery scandal. In a statement, the Makarfi local government caretaker chairman, Alhaji Mohammed Garba Sabon Gari, who spoke unbehalf of hi...