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The fact-finding committee of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on the health condition of Governor of Taraba State, Danbaba Suntai has affirmed that Alhaji Garba Umar should continue as Acting Governor of the state, as the governor would need more time to fully recuperate from injuries sustained in last year’s crash.  However, the committee noted […]

In view of the apparently ‘boundless’ funds at the disposal of Nigeria’s Central Bank for its independent interventions, observers, including the National Assembly, have frowned at the propriety and the shrouded protocol surrounding the substantial values and the choice of beneficiaries of the apex bank’s bonanza! The CBN, however, insists that these interventions are in […]Read More

The State Security Service (SSS) on Tuesday transferred Daniel Ohikhena, the 13-year-old boy who hid in the tyre compartment of an Arik airplane to fly to Lagos from Benin, to officials of the Edo State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development. Daniel’s mother, Evelyn was at the office of the SSS to witness the […]

In a recent intervention on the illegal deportation of beggars and the destitute by Lagos, Anambra and some other state governments, I demanded for a new urban renewal policy that provides adequately for the rehabilitation and resettlement of all displaced people in the beautification of state capitals. The demand is anchored on the fundamental rights […]

United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA), the Pan-African bank with operations in 19 African countries and New York, London and Paris, announces the launch of Project Alpha – the Group’s next stage focus of strategic transformation. UBA has for [8] years executed a dedicated strategy of local, regional and global expansion, whose implementation has seen […]

The new PDP, led by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar,Monday, received a boost, as one- fourth of the members of the Nigerian upper legislative arm, the Senate, has lined up behind them. In a press statement sent to www.www.aso.rocks search engine, 22 out of the 109 Senators lauded the action of the breakaway leaders, saying, […]

The turn of events which saw the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), broke into two major factions during its mini-convention last weekend, in Abuja, is disgraceful and totally condemnable, to say the least. The rancorous and highly distracting event saw the PDP squander a historical opportunity to deepen and expand the frontiers of democracy in […]

The breakaway faction of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chaired by Alhaji Abdullahi Kawu Baraje has filed a case before Justice Safari of the High Court of Lagos State, Ikeja Division, seeking to restrain Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, Prince Uche Secondus, Mrs. Kema Chikwe, Olisah Metuh and others from parading themselves as members of the National […]

Banks have been rejecting transactions of the Taraba State government initiated by Deputy Governor of the state, Garba Umar since the return of Governor Danbaba Suntai last Sunday, it has been revealed. Umar had urged the banks to honour the government’s financial transactions if they are in tandem with provisions of the law, that is, containing […]

Worried by the spate of building collapse across the country, Dangote Cement Plc and the Nigerian Institute of Building (NIOB) have agreed to partner to check this trend. Both organisations said they would launch investigations into the incidence to ascertain the cause. Speaking to journalists at the just concluded 43rd Builders Conference/Annual General Meeting (AGM) […]

The Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has allayed fears that the recent decision of Shell and Chevron Nigeria Limited to withdraw from the Olokola Liquefied Natural Gas Project, OKLNG, may derail the President Goodluck Jonathan’s Gas Revolution Agenda launched in March 2011. In a Press Release released to newsmen Tumini Green, Acting […]

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has described the call by Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) that President Goodluck Jonathan ensures that Chairman of National Population Commission (NPC), Chief Festus Odimegwu does not supervise the 2016 census, as misplaced. According to the religious body, the real questions are which part of the North ACF believes has […]