Soludo’s banking consolidation a sham – Sanusi – Daily Trust
March 1, 2010 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments Off
The banking consolidation exercise carried out by the then governor of the central bank Prof. Charles Soludo has come under fire from the current CBN Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi who said the exercise was a sham and that many of the banks never raised the capital which they claimed they did.
Senate receives first letter from Jonathan – Daily Trust
February 24, 2010 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments Off
The Senate yesterday received a letter from Acting President Goodluck Jonathan containing the 2010 draft statutory budget of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Jonathan also sent a letter to the lawmakers nominating Mr. Sam Saba as chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CDB) along with seven other members.
Jonathan: We’ll better Ghana’s election record – Daily Trust
February 23, 2010 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments Off
Acting President Goodluck Jonathan has appreciated Ghana’s immediate President John Kuffour for setting the pace in the history of electoral revolution in Africa by presiding over free and fair election in Ghana and assured that Nigeria is poised to do better than Ghana come 2011.
Yar’adua: SNG gives 10-day ultimatum to FEC – Daily Trust
February 23, 2010 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments Off
The Wole Soyinka-led Save Nigeria Group (SNG) yesterday gave the Federal Executive Council (FEC) March 3, 2010 deadline to invoke Section 144 of the Constitution to declare the ailing President Umaru Musa Yar’adua permanently incapacitated.
EFCC arrests Abdullahi Adamu – Over alleged N15 billion fraud – Daily Trust
February 23, 2010 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments Off
Former Governor of Nasarawa State Alhaji Abdullahi Adamu was yesterday arrested by the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged fraudulent award of contracts and stealing of public funds estimated at N15 billion.
2011 must be free, transparent – Blair, Bush – Daily Trust
February 22, 2010 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments Off
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former United States President George W. Bush yesterday emphasised that the 2011 general elections must reflect the wishes of the electorate.
They listed transparent and free election, rule of law, free market economy and freedom of speech as the roadmap for democratic growth in Nigeria and Africa.
Former EFCC cop shot dead – Daily Trust
February 22, 2010 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments Off
A former top detective in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) who investigated alleged corruption cases of some top politicians in the country was shot dead yesterday in Abuja by unknown gunmen.
190 MPs move to save Yar’adua – Daily Trust
February 19, 2010 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments Off
Nearly 200 members of the House of Representatives from the 19 Northern States would foil any plan to impeach ailing President Umaru Yar’adua or declare him medically unfit to hold his office by invoking Section 144 of the constitution, Daily Trust learnt last night.
Man loses 12 family members to fire – Daily Trust
February 19, 2010 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments
Twelve members of the family of Alhaji Ahmed Kabiru Boss, a former oil marketing company worker, died late Wednesday in a fire outbreak in their house at Chiranchin Gabas quarters in Kumbotso Local Government Area of Kano State. The dead include four women and eight children. Their remains were buried yesterday around 12:45pm at Dandolo cemetery in Goron Dutse area of the state.
Sultan cautions on religious extremism – Daily Trust
February 17, 2010 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments Off
Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar has said that Islam abhors religious extremism, noting that extremism and the unity of the Muslims were currently the basic challenges facing Islam and Muslims. “Islam is a religion of peace and extremism gives Islam a bad name’’, he said when the League of Chief Imams and Alfas from the South West , Edo and Delta States paid him a courtesy visit in his palace yesterday.
