Other resolutions contained in the 19-point communiqué read presented by Sali, included the need to reduce the engagement of consultants by the Federal and State Governments
Author: Wole Oye
The vice president, who was represented at the event by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Umar Sani, stressed that the determination of the President Goodluck Jonathan administration at entrenching transparency, accountability and the strict observance of the rule of law in the polity ensured the coming into force of the Freedom of Information Act
Speaking at his maiden meeting with principal officials of the power sector on Monday in Abuja, Nebo said to this end, the National Power Training Institute of Nigeria is to produce highly skilled power sector professionals, as Nigeria is not prepared to import needed manpower
Abati claimed to be in touch with the Bill and Melinda Foundation, wondering why people would attribute the cancellation of the visit to the pardon without having fact to back it
Addressing a joint press briefing with the visiting Lebanese President, Michel Sleiman, at the State House, Jonathan said he had briefed his visitor, promising to get to the root of it and recover their copses if truly dead
In the poll held on Saturday, the PDP won in five out of the six council areas
The airline’s licence was initially suspended after one of its flight from Abuja to Lagos crashed in Lagos, killing all 153 persons on board and several others on the ground
Femi Ogunbayode, the FCT Police Commissioner, assured residents that enough security personnel would be deployed to ensure law and order and a hitch-free election
But the unveiling of the APC’s logo, constitution and evidence of payment for registration as a political party with INEC may have jeopardized the merger party’s chances of being registered as a political party
We worked on it again and we looked at what it will cost the company to reclaim the land and the figure that we came up with was N25.7 billion
It comprises of the Vice President, Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, former Heads of State, former Chief Justices of the Federation and the 36 state governors
The altercation between the duo almost degenerated to fisticuffs but for the intervention of the Chief of Staff to the President, Chief Mike Oghiadome, and the Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan
The Federal Government will continue to give maximum support to our sports men and women to ensure that they can achieve their ultimate goals and bring honour to our dear nation,” he stressed
The publisher of the Abuja-based newspaper told The Eagle Online that the officials of the ICPC were in his office on Friday to invite him for the questioning
Speaking at a Town Hall meeting in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, Jonathan said he was curious on why attacks have continued to be on the rise in Borno State while peace is gradually returning to states like Yobe, Bauchi, Gombe and Kano
He said: “You cannot talk of amnesty for now until you see the people.”
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, had on Tuesday canvassed amnesty for the sect members