President Umaru Yar’Adua on Tuesday directed the Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Michael Aondoakaa, to cooperate with the Metropolitan Police of London in their ongoing investigations into the allegation...
In a move geared towards expanding Celtel’s transmission capacity in the country, Celtel Nigeria has signed a turnkey contract worth $130 million with Nokia Siemens network. According to the terms of the...
The festering institutional stand-off between the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over the modality for the prosecution of former Governor of...
Education is a developmental tool. It constitutes a definite plus when the individual is educated. In a collective sense, education also serves as an engine of growth. The immediate fore-going may well explain why the...
Dele Momodu, publisher of the Ovation magazine and most lately a columnist of THISDAY newspaper, attempts, through his piece of last Saturday [Anti-Corruption War as a Cliché], to heighten the frantic,...
Indications emerged yesterday that the Federal Government might try four suspected spies, including two Germans for espionage in camera at the Federal High Court in Abuja. The hint was dropped by the Director of Public...
The London High Court has ordered the refreezing of former Nigerian governor James Ibori's $35m (£17m) assets that police think are the proceeds of crime. The assets, believed to include a Bombardier private...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday granted an order of interim injunction restraining the Federal Government from re-capitalising and consolidating the insurance sector. Justice Anwuli Chikere granted the order,...
The World Bank has named a former Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as its Managing Director. Okonjo-Iweala will join two other managing directors, two executive vice-presidents, and the...
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Thursday joined the growing league of people and groups calling for the resignation of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mrs. Patricia Etteh. Soyinka, at a press...
President Musa Yar'Adua's weekend retort for the rule of law to be observed in the handling of the renovation contract scandal in the House of Representatives might be a reaffirmation of his private stand on...
Zimbabwe's President, Robert Mugabe, in a typically fiery speech to the United Nations (UN) General Assembly accused his United States (U.S.) counterpart, George W. Bush of "rank hypocrisy" for lecturing...