By Ayo Balogun, Lagos Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has presented a budget of N489.69 billion to the State House of Assembly for approval for the 2015 fiscal year. The budget is the same as that of 2014, which stood at N489.69 billion. The budget retains its zero deficit in order to ensure that […]
By Ayo Balogun The opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as plainly implausible and a witless afterthought the reasons adduced by the Directorate of State Services (DSS) for invading its Lagos Data Centre last Saturday, declaring the security outfit a “shameless apologist” of the ruling PDP APC’s declaration was made Monday by its National […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos Following the security challenges facing the North Eastern part of the Country, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) North Central zone, said over 35,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Adamawa, Yobe, Borno and Taraba States have fled to Plateau State due to the raging attacks. This was contained in a press statement […]
By Funmilayo Omidiji Security intelligence report is yet another reason why the men of Department of State Services, (DSS) stormed and ransacked the Ikeja, Lagos State office of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), spokesperson, Marilyn Ogar, has disclosed. Ogar in a press statement issued Sunday, revealed that DSS had earlier received a petition alleging […]
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, Nigeria Bureau A vocal religious organization – the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has expressed concern and demanded for explanations over the removal of the Arabic inscription in Hausa language and now being replaced with the Jewish symbol – the Star of David in the newly introduced commemorative note designed by the […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu The ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the weekend commenced screening of gubernatorial Aspirants from four South Eastern States in Enugu, ahead of its December 8, 2014 primaries. Southeast zonal office of the party, located at the GRA, Enugu, became a beehive of political activities since Saturday the exercise began. Among […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), in a week-long tax enforcement drive,has quizzed top officials of 15 companies operating in Kano metropolis for failing to file their tax returns, remit tax revenue and offset their outstanding tax liabilities. As statement signed by Emmanuel Obeta, Director, Communications and Liaison Department of FIRS in […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja. This is certainly not the best time for Alhaji Adamu Muazu, the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as some influential elements in his party are plotting to remove him. Source at the PDP National Secretariat said that the court case instituted to sack him by his immediate predecessor, Alhaji […]
Oyewale Oyelola The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in its bid to protect electoral officials during 2015 general elections has promised to engage the services of Nigerian Air Force, Navy and other security agencies. The Taraba INEC, Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mr Austin Okojie made this known Sunday at NYSC Orientation Camp in Jalingo while […]
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Chairman, Organisation and Mobilisation Committee of the party in the South West, Prince Buruji Kashamu has blasted ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo over his comment that President Olusegun Jonathan has performed below average. Kashamu described Obasanjo’s statement as “self-serving, unjustifiable and totally unwarranted.” Obasanjo had said over the […]
Akintokunbo A Adejumo It always comes down to this. How selfish, greedy and insensitive can some of these our rulers be? They are parasites feeding fat on the blood of the people, causing untold miseries and are like malignant tumours that just will not go away. Eight years as a governor of an oil-rich state, […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu At least, fifteen people have been confirmed dead in a fatal motor accident that occurred Saturday along the Enugu/Onitsha old road, in Oji River council area of Enugu State. Enugu state police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Ebere Amaraizu, confirmed the deadly accident to African Examiner. He disclosed that the command has […]
Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly and their Ekiti State counterparts embarked on a peaceful protest to the State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola’s office over the attempt by the Nigerian Police to prevent members of the House of Representatives from sitting on Wednesday as well as the purported impeachment of the Ekiti Speaker […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has strongly condemned Saturday invasion of its offices in Lagos by security agents, calling it perhaps the worst political scandal in Nigeria’s history. In a statement issued in Ijebu-Ode on Saturday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the invasion can only be likened to the […]
Ayo Balogun Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal says he is ready for arrest by the Inspector General of Police (IGP). There have been insinuations that Tambuwal might be arrested by the IGP over the fracas at the National Assembly recently. A statement issued by Tambuwal’s Special Assistant on Media, Imam Imam, […]
The Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba has denied issuing any arrest order on any particular person involved in the attack on Policemen, or the disturbance of public peace, at the premises of the National Assembly, Abuja on Thursday. This is even as he condemned in very strong terms the killing of a Police Inspector as […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos Barely two weeks to the governorship primaries of the PDP, a group, Equity and Justice Forum founded by a former PDP Chairman in Plateau State Prof. Dakum Shown appears to be in a state of quandary. The group is the umbrella body for aggrieved politicians who are against the choice of Governor […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu Two suspects, a man and woman who have been parading them selves as senior police officers, as well as duping unsuspected members of the public, especially in Anambra state and environs, on Friday met their waterloo, as they were nabbed by detectives from the Special Anti-Robbery Squad SARS of the Anambra […]
By Niyi Adeyi Perhaps against the public expectation, the Nigerian Military has expressed reservation on the pluses credited to the various vigilante groups and hunters in the North Eastern part of the country, on their recent successful onslaughts against the rampaging insurgents in the raging renewed attacks. Indications to this indifference emerged in a statement […]
The President and his men have their handwriting all over the invasion of the National Assembly, the Leader of the All Progressive Party (APC), Bola Tinubu has said. The former Governor of Lagos State said in a statement he made available to news men that “no Commissioner of Police will ever embark on such an […]
