The PDP under the leadership of Alhaji Abubakar Baraje has said it has asked its lawyers to press a contempt charge against Alhaji Bamanga Tukur for flouting the orders of a Lagos High Court which asked both sides to maintain the status quo pending the resolution of the case... Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday the U.S. Congress had no right to approve the use of force against Syria without a decision from the U.N. Security Council, and that doing so would be an “act of aggression”. He said “anything that is outside the U.N. Security Council... Read more
A Hezbollah official has said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ordered a poison gas attack last month and that it considered the move a mistake which showed he was losing his grip, according to German intelligence. Participants at a confidential meeting of German lawmakers on Monday said the head of... Read more
From: Diana Okon-Effiong, Calabar The Super Eagles Chief Coach, Stephen Keshi says the team is not under any pressure in their final group F African qualifier for Brazil 2014 World Cup match Saturday in Calabar. Keshi stated this on Wednesday in Calabar at a media briefing on the team’s... Read more
From: Diana Okon-Effiong, Calabar Human Rights Lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), has appealed to key players in Taraba politics to desist from turning it to “State of Impunity’’. He sated this in Calabar in an interview with journalists at the on-going bar conference at Tinapa Resort. According to Falana... Read more
The 600-metre bridge across the Qua Iboe River in Akwa Ibom State, built by the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has been completed and would be officially handed over to the benefiting communities soon. Inspecting the 6.7-kilometre Iko-Atabrikang-Opolom-Iwuo Achang road and the 600-metre bridge on Friday, the acting Managing... Read more
From: Diana Okon-Effiong, Calabar The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Lamido Sanusi Lamido, Monday expressed concerns over what he called current worrisome rate of unemployment in Nigeria. He said this in Calabar Monday at the official launching of the CBN South South Entrepreneurship Development Centre (EDC)... Read more
President Goodluck Jonathan will launch an agricultural initiative at the opening of this year’s Nigerian Economic Summit (NES) 19 at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja today (Tuesday). The programme, referred to as Nagropreneurs programme, is targeted at encouraging youths into commercial agriculture. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural... Read more
Nelson Mandela spent a first night back home after being discharged from hospital Sunday, but the South African government said the anti-apartheid hero remains critically ill and under intensive care. The former president had been in a Pretoria hospital for almost three months, spending his 95th birthday there as... Read more
FG should Withdraw Query to Odimegwu and Apologies to him – CAN
FeaturedPress Releases September 1, 2013
The call by the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) on President Goodluck Jonathan to make sure that the chairman of National Population Commission (NPC), Chief Festus Odimegwu does not supervise the 2016 census is misplaced. The question we are asking is: which part of the North are they saying... Read more
