Новости за 29.10.2016

Jesusegun Alagbe, Tunde Ajaja and Eric Dumo Several groups have rejected the reintroduction of tolling on federal roads by the Federal Government. They said the move showed that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration was “insensitive” to the plight of Nigerians, especially during this period of economic recession. The groups also said it was not right […]

John Alechenu and John Ameh, Abuja The former Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has expressed disappointment that no lesson has been learnt from the 2016 budget fraud commonly referred to as budget padding. Jibrin spoke in Abuja on Friday, the eve of the first 100 days since the crisis in the […]

Olalekan Adetayo The Federal Government will be spending between $1.4bn and $1.8bn to rehabilitate the nation’s refineries within two years in its bid to reposition the oil and gas sector. The rehabilitation will be carried out with the participation of the private sector. This is one of the highlights of the road map for the […]

Ovie Okpare, Warri Members of the Niger Delta Dialogue Team, otherwise known as Pan Niger Delta Group, led by former Information Minister, Chief Edwin Clark, will today (Saturday) meet in Abuja to decide on the key issues to be discussed when they meet with President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday next week. The meeting, which sources […]

If not for poor funding, the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria said it would have been producing about 70 per cent of the drugs being consumed in the country instead of relying on foreign pharmaceutical companies to meet local demand. The President of the PSN, Ahmed Yakasai, said this at a pre-conference address on the society’s […]

Etim Ekpimah, Uyo Indigenes of Akwa Ibom State have asked the Federal Government to refund the sum of N142bn the state had spent on federal projects. The aggrieved indigenes who said this under the aegis of Ibom Vanguard, explained that the money was spent by the state government on the repairs of federal roads within […]

Chidiebube Okeoma, Owerri The Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has instructed the newly sworn-in chairman of the state’s civil service commission, Bonaventure Ibebuike, to immediately work out modalities that will see 3,000 graduates employed into its workforce. Okorocha, however, instructed that those to be employed must be computer-literate and must fall between the age […]

Mudiaga Affe, Calaabar The Nigerian Navy says it has mounted surveillance on 37 creeks in the Niger Delta to put an end to oil theft as well as criminal activities in the region. The Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas, who disclosed this in Calabar, Cross State capital, while inspecting facilities in formations […]

Alexander Okere, Benin The women wing of the All Progressives Congress in Edo State has called on the suspended Enojie of Uromi, His Royal Highness Anselm Aidenojie II, to tender an apology to women in the state for his alleged attack on one of their own. The group also issued a 72-hour ultimatum to the […]

Tunde Ajaja The Rivers State Signage and Advertisement Agency has set November 30, 2016 as the deadline for outdoor practitioners and owners of billboards and signage structures in the state to register with the agency. The agency, which was established to regulate and control outdoor structures for the display of signage, hoarding and advertisement in […]

Gibson Achonu, Owerri The Imo State Chapter of the Nigeria Institute of Building says the country currently has a housing deficit of around 17 million units. Making the revelation during the 2016 Annual State Conference/General Meeting of the body in Owerri, the capital earlier in the week, the chairman of NIB in Imo, Mr. Collins […]

Olalekan Adetayo and Peter Dada The Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, on Friday met behind closed doors with President Muhammadu Buhari over the political development in the state that saw the Independent National Electoral Commission recognising Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the forthcoming governorship election. Mimiko later […]

Peter Dada, Akure in a related development, some residents stormed some streets in major towns in the state on Friday to protest against INEC’s declaration of Ibrahim as the PDP candidate in the forthcoming governorship election. The protests were staged in Akure, Owo, Ondo and Ore towns while protesters burnt tyres on major roads in […]

Kamarudeen Ogundele, Ekiti State The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission of rigging the Ondo State Governorship Election in advance for the All Progressives Congress. The governor was reacting to the decision of INEC to recognise the Ali Modu Sheriff’s faction’s candidate, Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim, as the candidate of […]

The Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party has said that it will only work with Mr. Eyitayo Jegede (SAN) as its candidate in the November 26 governorship election in Ondo State. It said it would not work with Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim, who was on Thursday announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission […]

Fidelis Soriwei The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has invited four more Senior Advocates of Nigeria for questioning for allegedly transferring huge sums of money to the bank accounts of some judges currently under investigation, Saturday PUNCH learnt on Friday. This is coming after the quizzing of four SANs earlier invited by the anti-graft agency […]

 Jesusegun Alagbe and Peter Dada The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Ondo State, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, has condemned the protest, which greeted the removal of Mr. Eyitayo Jegede’s name as the candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in the state. There was a state-wide protest on Friday over the declaration of […]

Ade Adesomoju, Abuja The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Friday reserved judgment in the motion filed by a factional chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ahmed Makarfi, and the faction’s secretary, Ben Obi, seeking leave to appeal against the Federal High Court’s judgment which recognised Jimoh Ibrahim as the PDP’s governorship candidate in Ondo […]

Ade Adesomoju and Clement Nnachi A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday refused to grant an  application filed by a Lagos-based lawyer, Mr. Olukoya Ogungbeje, seeking an order restraining President Muhammadu Buhari, the Department of State Services and others from re-arresting or taking any “untoward action” against five of the eight judges whose houses […]

Fidelis Soriwei, Abuja Indications emerged on Friday that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission was intensifying moves to gather evidence against the former First Lady, Patience Jonathan, for a possible prosecution. A top operative of the commission said on Friday that the leadership of the commission had initiated a discreet probe of the former First […]

Kunle Falayi For members of a notorious kidnap gang operating in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, nothing could go wrong, but Wednesday, October 12, 2016 was the day the long arm of the law caught up with them. The nine members of the gang, who were apprehended by the operatives of the Inspector-General of […]

Tunde Ajaja Reluctant to open the bottle of chilled drink in front of her at a restaurant where she agreed to meet our correspondent that hot afternoon, having a drink with a reporter in a restaurant was the last thing she wanted at such a critical time, but for the situation she found herself in […]

The Oyo State Police Command has arrested a former Federal Road Safety Corps member, who killed an official of the FRSC in Oyo town. The suspect, Nurudeen Alin (32), and his accomplice, Mohammed Garba (26), went to the residence of their victim, Yahuza Fakai, at College Road, Amejiogbe area of Oyo town and stabbed him […]

In the last three months, Gadilo Agbajo, an Arogbo, Ondo State indigene, has been involved in three kidnaps, which netted the gang he led N14.8m in total. But when Agbajo and eight other members of the gang were brought before journalists at the Lagos State Police Command headquarters following their arrest, the explanation he gave […]

In this interview with JOHN ALECHENU and Gbenro Adeoye, the Deputy National Chairman (South) of the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Segun Oni, speaks about the crisis in the party and preparations for the Ondo State governorship elections among other national issues The crisis in your party in Ondo State seems to have divided your members’ loyalty […]