‘We know those who have compromised their positions in order to author the alleged ‘Report’ and their theatrical display for public gallery. We also know those secretly beating the drums for masquerades dancing in the market square. We shall confront them at the appropriate forum’
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Al-Bashir, who was indicted by the ICC for alleged war crimes in Darfur, reportedly left Abuja on Tuesday morning after attending the Abuja + 12 AU Summit on HIV and AIDS
The OPL 245 deal, popularly known as the Malabu oil deal, has turned into a major scandal, with allegations of money exchanging hands leveled against senior government officials, including Adoke and President Goodluck Jonathan
If the climate of opinion against the President in the mainstream media is bad, it is worse in the new media where Dr. Jonathan has effectively been chased out of the social media. He hardly tweets, if at all he does that these days
The governors made the call in Port Harcourt, Rivers State in a communiqué jointly signed by them after a solidarity visit to Governor Chibuike Amaechi
The explosives included wartime munitions recovered from old military trench at Okigwe and five primed improvised explosive devices found at a robbery scene at a new generation bank in Ezinihitte, Mbaise Local Government Area
The minister said all monies appropriated for constituency projects would be warehoused in an account at the Central Bank of Nigeria pending the readiness of Ministries, Departments and Agencies to execute the projects
The proposed removal of the Land Use Act, NYSC Act and the Public Complaints Commission from the constitution, were also rejected by the senators
The former Vice President noted that this kind of political rascality should not be tolerated at the expense of governance and service delivery issues crying for attention
Jega said this while fielding questions from newsmen at a one-day workshop organized by the United Development Programme and the Democratic Governance for Development Project in collaboration with Inter-Party Advisory Council on the revalidation of the reviewed code of conduct for political parties in Minna, the Niger State capital
Governor Uduaghan, who acknowledged that putting up proper legal structures would ensure that government would be properly guided to continue with efforts to make the environment friendly, explained that the law was geared at providing a legal structure necessary for the state and its people to key into the Green Economy Initiatives of international agencies
The Army, in a statement on Tuesday by the Director, Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Ibrahim Attahiru, said the report that Al-Mustapha would automatically be made a General was erroneous
The group recalled that 13 Nigerian soldiers were killed in Sudan in 2008 and are yet to be compensated
Dissatisfied with Ojougbo’s submission, Igumbor said the tension in the area has forced the union to petition the state Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, and security agencies to beef up the security in the area in order to forestall a break down of law and order
The protesters had besieged the airport shortly before the arrival of Governors Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Sule Lamido (Jigawa) and Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano) at the Port Harcourt International Airport
He solicited the cooperation of both orthodox and traditional medical practitioners in the effort to apprehend other suspects currently on the run with bullet wounds
The decision was reached on Tuesday at the National Executive Committee meeting of ASUP
Journalists, who were invited to a press briefing by officials of the party, also sustained various degrees of injuries
This was contained in a statement by Tony Okeke, the party`s Acting National Publicity Secretary, in Abuja on Monday
Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, who inaugurated the commission, urged them to investigate and ascertain the remote and immediate causes of the crises