Acting president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has reportedly demanded an update on the Federal Government’s post-amnesty programme. The request, expected to be officially transmitted to the General Godwin Abbe-led post-amnesty coordination committee, is said to be coming on the heels of … read more
BARRING last minute change of plan, the Presidential six-man investigative panel to ascertain the fitness or otherwise of ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua is expected to depart Nigeria for Saudi Arabia this morning. According to a Presidency source, the team which … read more
Acting President Goodluck Jonathan is set to confound political pundits and jobbers with a resolve not to contest next year’s presidential elections, associates of the Acting President have told Saturday Vanguard. Jonathan, the first Acting President in the nation’s Fourth … read more
Nigeria’s Acting President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday in Abuja condemned all acts of gaining power or remaining in power via unconstitutional means in Niger Republic. Jonathan, who is the current ECOWAS Chairman, was reacting to the reported violence around the … read more
The Federal Government has expressed commitment to ensure that abandoned vessels at the Marina front are cleared because of tendency of the vessels to be used as launching pad of attacks against Nigeria. More worrisome is the fact that there … read more
The Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC), an umbrella body of militants in the Niger Delta has raised an alarm that some elements in Northern Nigeria were inducing youths in the Niger Delta to rubbish Acting President Goodluck Jonathan as lacking in … read more
Nigerians who thought the sale of Nigeria Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) to the New Generation Consortium, the preferred bidders, was a done deal, were shocked yesterday when a Chinese company listed among the bidders denied any part in the consortium’s bid. … read more
The Nigerian House of Assembly has moved to take a legal stand on how it would handle any future power vacuum created by a sick and incapacitated government official, or by any other circumstance. However leading political stakeholders failed to … read more
Nigeria’s cabinet, under pressure to declare the ailing president permanently unfit to hold onto office, is to dispatch a six-man team to his Jeddah hospital, a minister said Wednesday. President Umaru Yar’Adua has been hospitalised in Saudi Arabia for almost … read more
Nigeria’s crude oil export increased by 80,000 barrels per day to 2.080 million barrels per day in January, according to figures compiled by Platts Energy group on export from members of Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The figure is … read more