President Umaru Yar’Adua, on Tuesday, at the last Federal Executive Council meeting of the year ordered ministers to suspend further approval of fresh contracts in the 2007 budget. Yar’Adua gave the...
A former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, is to be arraigned on Thursday (today) at the Federal High Court, Kaduna, on corruption and money laundering charges. The arraignment follows his arrest in Abuja on...
Despite government ceaseless efforts to put any end to the nefarious acts of petroleum products pipelines in the country yet another disaster was recorded yesterday when a product line from Atlas Cove to Mosimi was...
A court of appeal in Nigeria has declared unconstitutional a law requiring every organiser of a rally to have a special police permit. The law, a residue of colonial rule, was challenged after police used tear gas to...
The election petitions tribunal sitting in Enugu on Tuesday nullified the election of the Senate Committee Chairman on Media, Senator Ayogu Eze, representing Enugu North in the upper chamber. The tribunal also sacked...
The Court of Appeal on Tuesday affirmed the inalienable right of Nigerians and asscociations to hold rallies without police permit. The court upheld the judgment of a Federal High Court which had, in June 2005,...
Unknown gunmen in the early hours of Monday invaded Aleibiri community in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State and kidnapped the aged father of the state deputy governor, Chief Simeon Ebebi. The incident,...
The National Economic Council, yesterday, cancelled the contract awarded by the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo for the construction of Primary Health Care Centres in the 774 local governments in...
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has advised the Federal Government not to leave the planned reopening of all unresolved political murder cases in the country in the hands of the police alone. Instead, he said an...
Six months ago, on a sweltering parade ground in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, Umaru Yar'Adua was sworn in as the president of Africa's most populous nation - the first time one civilian leader had taken over...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Dimeji Bankole, is advocating a review of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Act for better performance by the commission. He has, therefore, directed...
Oceanic Bank International Plc has won the 2007 Nigerian Bank of the Year Award. At the award ceremony organised by The Banker magazine, a subsidiary of the Financial Times of London in London on Wednesday, Oceanic...