Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, on Thursday, asked Nigerians to await the results of the 2011 poll before condemning the Federal Government‘s approach to making the exercise hitch-free. Soyinka gave the advice in an interview with journalists after delivering a lecture on ‘Culture and Politics’ at the opening of the first international conference on culture [...]
Despite the provision of funds in the supplementary budget for Nigeria’s 50th independent anniversary, the Federal Government has sought N401.2m from major companies in the oil, telecommunications and other thriving sectors in the country. Sources in government told our correspondent that letters soliciting the funds were sent out, initially, to 10 major firms asking them [...]
CHOLERA death toll in Nigeria has climbed to 352, according to an update from the Federal Ministry of Health. The death toll, as confirmed on Wednesday in Abuja by the Director of Public Health, Dr Mike Anibueze, emanated from Jigawa, Bauchi, Gombe, Yobe, Borno, Adamawa, Taraba, FCT, Cross River, Kaduna, and Rivers. “As of today, [...]
THE Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has approached a Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, to determine the proprietary, or otherwise, of the extra quarterly allowances, which members of the National Assembly have been collecting over the years. While many senators and members of the House of Representatives have denied ever collecting anything above the salaries [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan has advised those criticising his administration’s decision to acquire three aircraft to beef up the Presidential Air Fleet to be “constructive.” Jonathan, in his first reaction to some Nigerians, political groups and civil society organisations that flayed the action, said his safety and the need to run the country efficiently ought to [...]
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Wednesday said that despite the National Assembly’s approval of N87.7bn for it to prosecute the 2011 general elections, there were serious challenges against the successful conduct of the poll. Besides the non-release of funds, the commission cited the absence of legal framework as another threat to the elections. Apparently, [...]
A MAN, his wife, his three children and his mother were said to be among scores of lives that perished, weekend, in a multiple auto crash that occurred along Lagos-Ibadan Express road. A pregnant woman and her two children were also among those burnt beyond recognition in the accident even as unconfirmed report put the [...]
Nigeria’s cabinet approved the purchase of three new presidential jets on Wednesday, a day after Africa’s most populous nation said it would have to raise debt to fund elections in less than six months. President Goodluck Jonathan has not yet said whether he will contest the polls, but most Nigerians expect him to do so, [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan has reacted to a statement credited to the Publicity Secretary of the Congress for Progressive Change, (CPC), in a nationaldaily (not Daily Sun), alleging that he is under pressure to rig the 2011 elections in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He described it false and illogical. In a statement signed [...]
The Senate President, David Mark, has called on the federal government to elongate the one year compulsory National Youth Service Scheme to two years. He made the call in Abuja when he addressed the 125 National Defence College (NDC) participant’s course 18 graduates and their directing staff. He said the additional one year should be [...]
