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Governors Snub Jonathan, Move NGF Election To Rivers Gov’s Lodge…Poll Now Holds Friday

Governors Snub Jonathan, Move NGF Election To Rivers Gov’s Lodge…Poll Now Holds Friday

The Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF finally stamped its independence and snubbed attempts by President Goodluck Jonathan to shift the venue of the election to the presidential villa. ...

Amnesty: FG Begins Release Of Detained Boko Haram Suspects

Amnesty: FG Begins Release Of Detained Boko Haram Suspects

The federal government will any moment now begin to release in their hundreds Boko Haram members who are being detained by security forces in line with the amnesty programme being ...

28 Years After, Ajimobi Awards N100m Bursary To Oyo Students

28 Years After, Ajimobi Awards N100m Bursary To Oyo Students

Twenty-eight years after scholarship awards were last awarded in Oyo State, Governor Abiola Ajimobi on Tuesday presented a total of N100 million to the students of the state origin ...

100 Senators Vote For Emergency Rule In Borno, Yobe, Adamawa

100 Senators Vote For Emergency Rule In Borno, Yobe, Adamawa

A total of 100 senators today voted in support of the declaration of a state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states at a closed session of the assembly where  President Goo ...

Anambra: N2 Trillion Or Half Trillion?

Anambra: N2 Trillion Or Half Trillion?

Anambra State commissioner for works Arc Calistus Ilozumba has been in the news lately for all sorts of reasons. Ilozumba it was who flew into an uncontrollable rage because his pr ...

Jonathan Goes For Amaechi’s Jugular, Moves Governors Forum Election To The Villa…Dumps Shema For Isa Yuguda

Jonathan Goes For Amaechi’s Jugular, Moves Governors Forum Election To The Villa…Dumps Shema For Isa Yuguda

Barely three days to the election of the Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF, Chairmanship position, a desperate President Goodluck Jonathan has gone for the jugular of the incumbent Cha ...

Boko Haram: Fresh Curfew Imposed In Yobe

Boko Haram: Fresh Curfew Imposed In Yobe

Towing the line of Adamawa and Borno states which had imposed curfew, the Yobe state government today announced a 6pm to 6am curfew in the state. President Jonathan had in a nation ...

Drop Your Appetite For Stolen Nigerian Crude Oil, Alison-Madueke Tells International Community

The Federal Government has called on the global community and International oil traders to drop their appetite for stolen crude oil from Nigeria and join in the fight against the nefarious activities of oil thieves and pipeline vandals. The appeal signaled a major focus in tackling the demand side of the global oil theft matrix which is a growing menace to the smooth operation of the oil and gas industry in ...

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U.S. Govt Links Cotonou Car Importers To Drug Trafficking, Money Laundering Networks…Moves To Block Access To Used American Cars

The huge market of second hand or used cars, popularly called 'Tokunbo' usually brought into Nigeria from the United States through Cotonou in Benin republic may have suffered a fatal blow following findings by the American authorities that the vehicles are proceeds of drug trafficking and money laundering by some criminal networks operating in Lebanon and Africa. The report of the investigations by the U.S ...

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EFCC Arrests Former Mint MD, Ehi Okomoyon Over $5m Polymer Bribery Scam

Former managing director of the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company, Ehi Okomoyon has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The former Mint boss, who recently resigned his appointment on the heels of the embarrassing disappearance of millions of N1000 currency notes from the company, was picked up on Sunday, April 14, 2013. Sources at the anti- graft agency informed ...

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Worsening Cases Of Oil Theft Put Nigeria’s Economy In More Jeopardy, Says ACN

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has warned that the rising cases of crude oil theft and pipeline vandalism in the Niger Delta will definitely worsen the country's economic woes, when placed side by side with other problems besetting the country's troubled oil sector, unless the Federal Government acts decisively to stop the criminal act In a statement issued in Lagos today by its National Publicity Sec ...

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Jonathan In Fresh Face-Off With N’Assembly…Rejects, Returns 2013 Budget To NASS

Weeks after signing the harmonized N4.987 trillion 2013 Appropriation Bill into law, President Goodluck Jonathan has rejected the budget and returned it to the National Assembly, insisting that the lawmakers must reverse themselves on a number of clauses including the zero budget for the Aruma Oteh led Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC. Besides the zero budget for SEC due to their call for the sack of ...

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FG Intensifies Efforts To Cripple Wale Babalakin…Terminates Another Airport Business With Bi-Courtney

The federal government today intensified its efforts to cripple the multi-billionaire business empire of embattled lawyer turned businessman, Wale Babalakin who is the Chairman of Bi-Courtney Ltd. The government which recently terminated the company's concession on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, also dragged the businessman before a high court in Lagos for money laundering charges. As if all that was not enou ...

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FG Lifts Ban On Dana Airline…Resumes Operations

Forty eight hours after placing a ban on its flight operations, the federal government again today asked the embattled airline to resume operations. The airline's flights were halted Saturday following a report of a fault in one of its aircrafts. Trouble began pouring in for the airline since June last year when its flight coming into Lagos from Abuja crashed in Iju-Ishaga area of Lagos killing all 154 pass ...

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FG Grounds Dana Air Again

The federal government has again come down hard on Dana Air few days after President Jonathan sacked the Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, Dr Harold Demuren. The  Federal Ministry of Aviation was said to have ordered the suspension of all Dana Air flights on Saturday after the airline reported that one of its planes had a safety issue with its batteries. The Federal Government ...

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EFCC Arrests Francis Atuche Over Forgery, Taraba Ex-Dep Gov Danladi Over N1.3Bn Fraud

A former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of  defunct Bank PHB, Mr Francis Atuche has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. He was picked up on Wednesday March 13, 2013 in Lagos over a case of forgery and attempt to smuggle forged board resolutions into Keystone Bank, the successor to Bank PHB. Two other suspects implicated in the scam are Nnosiri Joachim and Ugur ...

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80% Of Nigeria’s Oil Blocks Owned By Foreigners, Not Northerners -Falana…Says Senator Enang’s Claim Misleading

Lagos lawyer, Femi Falana has described last week celebrated claim by Senator Ita Enang that 80 percent of Nigeria's oil blocks is owned by Northerners as totally false and misleading. The lawyer in a statement released today and obtained by iReports-ng.com said majority of the nation's oil blocks are owned by foreigners and foreign companies. The statement reads in full: "During the debate on the Petroleum ...

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