EFCC places ministers under 24-hr surveillance
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has placed all serving ministers on a 24-hour surveillance ahead of the investigation being conducted by the Presidential Projects Monitoring Committee into the various projects embarked upon and executed in the last two years.
An impeccable source at the commission revealed at the week-end that the anti-graft agency had [...]
Yar’Adua: We’ll never contemplate coup or carry out security breach – Army
Chief of Army staff, Lt. General Abdurahman Bello Dambazau said, yesterday, that the Nigerian Army under his leadership would never contemplate any coup plot or security breach in the country as it is absolutely unnecessary . He disowned a statement credited to AC that he, Chief of Army Staff, is [...]
Yar’Adua recognises Jonathan as Acting President
After referring to him as “Vice-President” on Wednesday, President Umaru Yar’Adua on Thursday recognised Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as the country’s Acting President and Commander-in-Chief.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi, said Jonathan would continue to discharge the affairs of the government as the Acting President until Yar’Adua had fully [...]
S/South Threatens To Break Away, Alleges Threat To Jonathan
The people of South-South region yesterday took strong exception to the sidelining of Acting President Goodluck Jonathan in running the affairs of the country and threatened to break away before issues which bind the country together are subverted by a cabal.
Specifically, the South –South Elders and Leaders Forum at the end of an emergency meeting [...]
Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua returns home
Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua has returned home after three months’ treatment in Saudi Arabia, officials say, but his condition is unknown.
A plane from Jeddah landed at Abuja airport in the early hours, where an ambulance was waiting on the tarmac.
Earlier this month, Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan became acting leader as fears mounted of a power vacuum.
Mr [...]
Jonathan Elected ECOWAS Chairman
Nigeria’s leadership of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was extended for another year last night as Acting President Goodluck Jonathan was elected the new chairman of the sub-regional body.
Ailing President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua had steered the ship of the association for a year until he fell ill, a development which had twice forced [...]
Fresh pressure mounts on FEC to declare Yar’Adua unfit
Despite the National Assembly’s resolution that made Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan an Acting President last Tuesday, pressure has continued to mount on the Federal Executive Council to invoke Section 144 of the 1999 Constitution.
The conference of Nigeria Political Parties, the Save Nigeria Group and a former Minority Leader in the House of Representatives, Alhaji Farouk Adamu [...]
Ministers in desperate moves for Jonathan’s favour
Indications emerged on Saturday that ministers, special advisers and other top political appointees in the Presidency have intensified moves to get into the good books of Acting President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan following concerns that he would make good his earlier threat to remove officials who engaged in acts of mischief to advance their personal aggrandizement.
Their [...]
Jonathan, governors in secret deal
Plans for the dissolution of the federal cabinet are at an advanced stage, Saturday Punch has learnt. The imminent dissolution, sources said, was part of a secret deal between the Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and governors. The deal led to the emergence of Jonathan as Acting President after the governors had prevailed on the [...]
History as N’Assembly proclaims Jonathan Acting President
History was made in the country on Tuesday as the Senate and the House of Reprsentatives separately okayed resolutions empowering Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan to formally act as the President.
By the resolutions, Jonathan can now discharge the functions of the office of President, Commander-in –Chief of the Armed Force in accordance with the provisions of Section [...]
