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The House of Representatives on Thursday mandated an ad hoc committee to investigate an alleged N59 trillion oil deal involving the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke. Others to appear before the committee include the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, Ltd., Atlantic Energy Drilling Concept Ltd. and Septa Energy Ltd. ... Read More »

Nigeria’s former First Lady, Hajia Turai Yar’Adua on Thursday floored incumbent First Lady Patience Goodluck Jonathan as Justice Peter Affren of the Abuja High Court set aside the purported revocation by the FCT administration of a land measuring about 1.84 hectares allocated to Turai’s non governmental organization, Women and Youth Empowerment Foundation, WAYEF. The court held that the claims by ... Read More »

President Goodluck Jonathan, Wednesday, derided the Labour unions saying many of its members at all levels engage in high level of corruption despite their clamour for good governance. “Labour has been in the fore front for the demand of good governance and increase action against corruption and these issues are being vigorously tackled from various fronts. Prosecutions are being pursued ... Read More »

Former Head of State and presidential candidate for the Congress for Progressive Change in the 2011 general election, Maj-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has said he is ready to contest the  presidential elections in 2015 under the banner of the newly formed All Progressives Congress, APC. He said if the APC puts forward a formidable and credible candidate, then he might ... Read More »

Ahead of the Presidential race  in 2015 Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State has said he will soon  declare his intention to contest. Kwankwanso stated  that while his priority is to secure the lives and property of Kano people as Governor “at the right time I will declare to run for the presidency” The governor made the revelation today ... Read More »

The spokesperson of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, has claimed that the Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, on several occasions begged the leadership of the party to let him decamp to the PDP. Mr. Metuh said the governor was consistently turned down by his party. Mr. Metuh, who spoke via a release Wednesday, “urged the Edo State ... Read More »

Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Anyim Pius Anyim, has declared that the conduct of government activities has been transparent under the President Goodluck Jonathan administration. Anyim made the declaration yesterday at a one-day workshop for special assistants on media and directors of information of federal ministries. The former Senate president noted that it was in furtherance of ... Read More »

Baring any last minutes political recalculation, the Speaker, House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal and General Muhammadu Buhari will slog it out at the Presidential primaries of the All Progressive Congress, APC, ahead of the 2015 Presidential elections. APC leaders are reportedly considering zoning the Presidency to the Northwest and mulling zoning the running mate to the South East. The ... Read More »

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has said the Federal Government was negotiating for a $400m special fund from the World Bank to tackle the menace of erosion in the South East. President Jonathan was speaking to a delegation of the South East Council of Traditional Rulers at State House, Monday. ‘We are getting $400m, a special fund from the World Bank, ... Read More »

DELTA State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has condemned the dumping of outdated technologies in Nigeria by the developed countries which he noted was impacting negatively on the climate. He decried the act of industrialization by some countries of the world without considering the effects of such industrialization on the environment. Speaking yesterday in Asaba when he received a delegation of ... Read More »