The fight over Nigeria By Lawal Ogienagbon
IT IS quite interesting that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is fighting, note not for, but over Nigeria. PDP? Wonders shall never end! Since losing out in the power game in the last elections, the […]
IT IS quite interesting that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is fighting, note not for, but over Nigeria. PDP? Wonders shall never end! Since losing out in the power game in the last elections, the […]
MY people have a saying which I will tell in my “inner” Igbo dialect and then translate. We say: “leruo enya akala nari zuru ife”. When you visit someone and you are about to depart, […]
SENATE President Bukola Saraki announced the much-expected standing committees and named their chairmen. Sixty-five senators in the 109-member chamber were named as chairmen. All Progressives Congress (APC) senators got 41 chairmanship positions and 24 slots […]
Lagos— Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court, Lagos, yesterday, barred the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria, FRCN, from disrupting the activities of Stanbic IBTC Holding Plc. Justice Buba issued this order in an […]
SENATORS yesterday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to investigate all expenditures made by former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration under the Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P). The lawmakers specifically urged the President to ensure that every […]
ABUJA—Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, may have shunned entreaties from members of his party, the All Progressives Congress, to tinker with the list of committee heads which he released with a view […]
Oil marketers will get N413 billion for subsidy claims, following the Federal Government’s approval, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said yesterday. NNPC spokesman Ohi Alegbe said the oil giant had taken steps to eliminate […]
The Edo State Government on Wednesday said that it had begun moves to recover $31m which it said was allegedly “fraudulently taken” from the government coffers, during the administration of former Governor Lucky Igbinedion. According […]
ABUJA-SENATOR Ben Murray- Bruce, PDP, Bayelsa East has described the imposition of $5.2 billion fine on MTN, Nigeria by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC was a bad signal to foreign investors. According to him in […]
The Senate on Wednesday rejected a motion for the payment of N5, 000 monthly allowance to unemployed youths in the country. The motion was sponsored by Philip Aduda (PDP, FCT) but was greeted with shouts […]
Enugu — The umbrella association of all Igbo cultural unions, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has given reasons for Igbo language not being spoken at Igbo gatherings by Ndigbo. Nwabueze, who spoke at an Igbo language programme organized […]
LAGOS — Activities at the retail segment of the official foreign exchange market were grounded, yesterday, as end users avoided bureaux de change (BDCs), to avoid submitting their Biometric Verification Number (BVN) for foreign exchange […]
PREMIUM TIMES has obtained exclusive details of how officials at the an Abuja branch of Fidelity Bank allegedly facilitated the laundering of hundreds of millions of naira by the embattled former Chairman of the Pension […]
There was mild drama at the senate on Wednesday, as All Progressives Congress (APC) senators and those of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) squabbled over a motion by Philip Aduda, senate minority leader, urging President […]
Arik Air, West and Central Africa’s largest carrier, is rewarding passengers with surprise gifts mid-flight in what the company calls the #ArikCares Special Give-Away. Gifts to be given out include a number of iPad Air […]
I predicted more than a year ago that the presidential race is going to come down to a race between Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton and that Hillary would win. I neither speak in tongue […]
Nigerian Senate President Bukola Saraki, former National Security Adviser Sambo Mohammed Dasuki and US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton may want to have tea together sometime to share notes. As Saraki and Dasuki face various charges […]
One of the qualities that recommended, even endeared, President Muhammadu Buhari to a majority of the electorate over and above former president Goodluck Jonathan in the last election was that of resoluteness. His first coming […]
From the look of things, there is trouble, great trouble in the horizon in the South-South of the country and the government should rise up to nip, in the bud, the impending catastrophe that now […]
If fair representation in government is the goal, then that is more perfectly taken care of by the legislature which, lest we forget, is an arm of the government! In any case, the mere appointment […]
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