The Nigerian Senate on tuesday made a statement threatening to
hold the Attorney General of the Federation Malami Abubakar in
contempt if he does not appear before their investigative committee to
defend his decision of prosecuting a case that was non of his
business.
The Senate also said that an internal unit, the Senate Committee
on Judiciary,...
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Showing posts with label national issues. Show all posts
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
BUHARI SACKS NIGERIAN AIRPORT AUTHORITY MD. *Appoints Hadiza Bala-Usman as new MD
President Buhari has sacked the Managing Director of the Nigerian
Airport Authority Habib Abdullahi and has appointed Ms Hadiza
Bala-Usman as a replacement.
Hadiza Bala-Usman, will take over from Abdullahi after the former
Director was removed from the same post in April...
Monday, 11 July 2016
POINT SYSTEM WILL NOT BE USED FOR ADMISSION-JAMB
JAMB SAYS ADMISSION WILL BE BASED ON MERIT, CATCHMENT AND EDS.
On sunday, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board JAMB
released the guidelines the 2016 admission procedure for tertiary
institutions in Nigeria. The guidelines were duely stated in a
document that was...
Saturday, 9 July 2016
PRO-EKWEREMADU PROTESTS ROCK ENUGU.
Daily posts has reported that thousands of residents took to the
streets of Enugu today protesting against the prosecution of their
son, the deputy senate president- Ike Ekweremadu. The protests were
from indegenes of the Agwu senatorial zone of Enugu State. The
protesting...
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
FUEL SCARCITY TROUBLE: CRISIS AS NNPC STOPS PUMPING FUEL TO DEPOTS.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has stopped
pumping fuel to its depots due to attack from militants. The
corporation announced that the move was in a bid to reduce losses from
militant attacks. According to The Punch newspaper, NNPC has stopped
pumping to depots but now sells directly in bulk to oil marketers who
now distribute...
Tuesday, 5 July 2016
THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES! AFTER BEING SUSPENDED BY GOOGLE AND TWITTER, AVENGERS ARE ON FACEBOOK.
On sunday, social networking website twitter, suspended the
account of Niger Delta Avengers because it contrevened its rules. In
the same line Google deleted their blog from its search index. But the
Niger Delta Avengers have been bold to come out and announce that
their...
TOP 'n' TRENDING: BUHARI IS KILLING DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA- Enugu Trad...
TOP 'n' TRENDING: BUHARI IS KILLING DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA- Enugu Trad...: "Nigeria's democracy is under serious threat if Buhari's
unforgiving spirit goes unchecked".
A traditional ruler i....
NSCIA DECLARES TOMORROW AS EID-EL-FITR.
The President of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic
Affairs has declared tomorrow July 6, 2016 as the date for Eid-el-Fitr
in Nigeria. The President General of the association who also doubles
as the Sultan of Sokoto made the announcement yesterday and also added
that the new moon of Shawwal had not been sighed anywhere in Nigeria.
The...
Monday, 4 July 2016
SARAKI AND BUKOLA ARE NOT IMMUNE- FEMI FALANA.
One of Nigeria's most prominent Human Rights Lawyers,political
activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria(SAN) on saturday, urged the
president of the senate Bukola Saraki and his deputy to face their
trials and stop making it look like they were being victimised.
Femi Falana SAN, said this in a lecture he delivered at the 60th
birthday celebration...
Sunday, 3 July 2016
FOR NIGERIANS,THIS MEANS YOU WILL NOT BUY AIRLINE TICKETS IN FOREIGN CURRENCY AGAIN.
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has warned all defaulting
airlines to desist from selling airline tickets in foreign currencies
with immediate effect. In a statement released by the Acting General
of public relations unit, Sam Adurogboye, he said that this illegal
act by the airlines which had recently been brought to their notice
was contravening...
Saturday, 2 July 2016
BREAKFAST: UCHE OGAH'S 'FLIMSY' ATTEMPT AT ESCAPING HIS CRIMINAL CHARGES.
*Abia PDP war, Uche Ogah wants office immunity to escape 12 criminal
charges against him.
As the crisis in PDP Abia soaks up the more, the governor of
Abia state has insisted that the decision by a Federal high court and
the INEC to kick him out of office is all part...
Friday, 1 July 2016
NEWS: PASTOR KUMUYI TELLS NIGERIANS TO HAVE PATIENCE WITH BUHARI.
The General Overseer of Deeper Christian Life Bible Church has
pleaded with Nigerians to exercise more patience with the President,
General Muhammadu Buhari. The respected clergy man said this during a
visit to the National Headquarters of the Nigerian Pilgrims
commission....
CBN TO SPEND N3 MILLION NAIRA ON LOANS FOR NYSC MEMBERS.
As part of its agenda to aid the Federal Government in poverty
alleviation the CBN has announced that it will start issuing loans out
to the beneficiaries of the Youth Innovative Entrepreneurship
Development Programme-YIEDP. The YIEDP is a youth empowerment
programme that was launched by Central Bank of Nigerian in
collaboration with the Federal...
Thursday, 30 June 2016
ALLEGED FORGERY: AGF SUMMON,SENATE WALKS AGF REPRESENTATIVE OUT.
"This is the second time and its a slap on our face"-Senate
*AGF says panel lacks justification to open the matter up.
Today, the senate committee on Human Rights and Legal Matters
walked the special assistant to President Buhari out from a meeting,
on the grounds that the committee had summoned the Attorney General of
the Federation himself.
Chief...
GENERAL ELECTRIC TO INVEST $2 BILLION IN NIGERIA'S RAILWAY PROJECT.
The minister for transport in Nigeria told journalists in an
interview with CNBC yesterday the American company General Electric
has concrete plans to event about $2 billion in the country's railway
sector. He also said that the Federal government was looking for
investment...
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
EKWEREMADU'S OPEN LETTER TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY.
*Deputy senate president writes letter to.
UK,EU,US.
*Attorney General to appear before senate.
Roughly 24 hours after his arraignment, the deputy senate president
has made an attempt to put the international community on red alert on
what he feels is a plot to kill Nigeria's democracy. In the letter
which was written to the UK and copied to...
Tuesday, 28 June 2016
IS THIS A GRAND PLOT BY EFCC TO EXTERMINATE FEMI KAYODE?
Reports have surfaced suggesting that the Nigerian Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission have a plan to detain the former minister
of aviation Femi Fani Kayode till he probably dies in prison.
Not just that, the EFCC operative who once assaulted Femi Fani
Kayode will...
DON'T CALL US BOKO HARAM- Niger Delta Militants.
"...We are not being sponsored by any politician we have not
asked to negotiate with a politician like Buhari..."
In the face of the regularity with which new Niger Del...
Monday, 27 June 2016
YOU CAN'T RULE! COURT SACKS ABIA STATE GOVERNOR.
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has declared null and
void the election of Abia state governor Okezie Ikpeazu and has
ordered him to vacate office with immediate effect. While issuing a
certificate of return to Samson Ogah a member of PDP who contested the
post...
ALLEDGED FORGERY: SARAKI, EKWEREMADU AND OTHERS HAVE BEEN GRANTED BAIL.
The Nigerian Senate president Alhaji Bukola Saraki and his
deputy Ike Ekweremadu today denied being guilty of court charges and
they have been granted bail. Together with them were two others also
accused of forgery: A former clerk of the national assembly Mr. Salisu
Maikasuwa...
