Austyn Ogannah
JONATHAN AND THE POLITICS OF (S)ELECTION
PHOTO: PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN (R) CONGRATULATES PDP CHAIRMAN, DR OKWESILIEZE NWODO ON HIS SELECTION AS PDP NATIONAL CHAIRMAN.
2010 PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE: JONATHAN, RIBADU, BUHARI, CHRIS OKOTIE, ETAL
PHOTO: PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN (Middle); FORMER HEAD OF STATE, GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI (R) AND MALLAM NUHU RIBADU (L)....
Joseph Daudu Emerges NBA President
San Francisco, July 29, (THEWILL) – The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has a new President. Chief Joseph Daudu (SAN) was today elected with 718 votes to ...
KAYODE AJULO & EFCC: THE CANONISATION OF OBONG VICTOR ATTAH
PHOTO: FORMER GOVERNOR OF AKWA IBOM STATE, OBONG VICTOR ATTAH....
WAGE RAISE FUTILE IN INFLATED MARKET INDUCED BY CORRUPTION & SAP
We need wage consolidation, not raise. Many cannot predict that those of us who claim to be so passionate about the poor and the working ...
Senate Passes Electoral Bill's Conference Report, NDDC 2010 Budget
ABUJA, July 29, (THEWILL) - All is now set for the conduct of the 2011 general elections at least on the aspects of providing the ...
Akunyili Fires Aide, Suspends Another Over Soludo
PHOTO: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER, PROFESSOR DORA AKUNYILI....
2010 NBA Conference, Imoke Gives Recipe On credible Election
PHOTO: CROSS RIVER STATE GOVERNOR, SENATOR LIYEL IMOKE WITH NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION CHAIRMAN, MR OLUWAROTIMI AKEREDOLU (SAN) AT THE DELEGATES' CONFERNCE OF THE NBA IN ABADAN, OYO STATE ON WEDNESDAY....
Ondo: NLC, Civil Society Gives INEC 21-Day Ultimatum To Remove Adebayo
LAGOS, July 29, (THEWILL) - Oppositions continue to mount against the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega over the positing ...
EFCC: Tough Time Awaits Bribe Offenders, Parades 2 impersonators
PHOTO: L-R EFCC SPOKESMAN, FEMI BABAFEMI, IMPOSTOSTORS-OLUWASEUN AMOSUN AND SALISU SAMBO GONI, AND EFCC DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS, STEVE OTITOJU AT THE EFCC ABUJA OFFICE IN ABUJA TODAY, JULY 29, 2010....
List Of Candidates For Emir of Bauchi Stool Grows To 19
PHOTO: ELDEST SON OF THE LATE EMIR AND CANDIDATE FOR THE THRONE, ALHAJI SULEYMAN ADAMU SULEYMAN...
Release N74B Within Two Weeks Or Forget About 2011 Elections – Jega Warns
PHOTO: PROFESSOR ATTAHIRU JEGA, CHAIRMAN INEC....
NCC Board: Mark Sacks Communication Committee Over Forgery
ABUJA, July 29, (THEWILL) - The Senate today sacked the Committee on Communication over disclosures that it told lies of a screening work not done ...
Corruption: Why They Are After Me, Bankole Cries Out
PHOTO: SPEAKER, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, HONOURABLE DIMEJI BANKOLE....THE DAY IBB VISITED AKWA IBOM AFTER A LONG TIME
Dear Editor THE DAY IBB VISITED AKWA IBOM AFTER A LONG TIME When General Ibrahim Babangida, and a horde of other top political personalities converged ...
Senators Confirm Galadima, Rhodes-Vivour As Supreme Court Justices
ABUJA, July 28, (THEWILL) - Justices Suleiman Galadima (North Central Zone) (Justice of the Court of Appeal) and Bode Rhodes-Vivour (South West Zone) (Justice of ...
BPP Stalls Reps Investigation Of NTA’s N8.9B OBV Contract
Abuja, July 28, (THEWILL) - Investigations into the controversial Nigerian Television Authority’s (NTA) N8.9 billion contract for the upgrade of Outside Broadcast Vans (OBVs) for ...
Reps Kill N6.1B NCC SIM Card Registration Fund At Charged Session
ABUJA, July 28, (THEWILL) - A mild drama played itself out in the House of Representatives as members were sharply divided over attempts to re-introduce ...
Senate Drops NDDC’s N236B Budget Debate Over Bogus Allocations
PHOTO: MINISTER, NIGER DELTA MINISTRY, MR GODSDAY ORUBEBE (L) WITH FORMER MINISTER UFOT EKAETTE....
New States: Bankole Lobbies For Re-Election Of Lawmakers
PHOTO: HOUSE SPEAKER, HON. DIMEJI BANKOLE....
2011: Mark, Benue National Assembly Caucus Endorse Jonathan
PHOTO: SENTATE PRESIDENT, SENATOR DAVID MARK....
THANK YOU MR DONALD DUKE…….BUT ON IWU I DISAGREE
The recent expose by Mr. Donald Duke, the former Governor of Cross River State on Election rigging in Nigeria is very informative and we as ...
NIGERIA SHOULD DEVELOP FORENSIC HOSPITALS AND CONFINEMENT INSTITUTIONS FOR CORRUPTION SUSPECTS AND CONVICTS
The yearly, monthly, weekly, daily and minute by minute changing reports on corruption are overwhelming. The perpetrators’ minds and bodies that energize corruption crimes are ...
2011 Polls: INEC Raises Cost from N72B To N74B
PHOTO: PROFESSOR ATTAHIRU JEGA BRIEFING THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON ELECTORAL MATTERS AT THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY COMPLEX TODAY, JULY 28, 2010....
FG Mulls Compulsory Disclosures To Sanitize Public Spending
PHOTO: MINISTER OF FINANCE, OLUSEGUN AGANGA....
Plateau Doctors Continue Strike
JOS, July 28, (THEWILL) - Resident doctors in the employment of Plateau State government have differed with other resident doctors in the country as they ...
NORTH: BETWEEN AGRICULTURE AND OIL
Recently, the Minister of Petroleum announced that the Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC) is resuming oil exploration in the northern part of the country. The ...
HONOURABLE FATIMA RAJI-RASAKI: THE POLICE AND LACK OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CONNECTION AND CLEARANCE
Madam, public service is all about attitude. Even when an individual is imbued with the best conditions of education, remuneration and lifestyle, if the individual’s ...
JONATHAN AND THE NORTHERN HAWKS
PHOTO: PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN SHAKES NIGER STATE GOVERNOR MU'AZU ALIYU BABANGIDA, BEHIND IS KWARA STATE GOVERNOR BUKOLA SARAKI....
Armed Bandits Invade Borno Border Villages
ABUJA, July 27, (THEWILL) - The House of Representatives is set to discuss the menace of armed bandits who have reportedly invaded Borno border towns ...
INEC Board Complete As Senate Clears Two More Commissioners
PHOTO: INEC CHAIRMAN, PROFESSOR ATTAHIRU JEGA....
House Approves Amended Constitution For Gazetting
ABUJA, July 27, (THEWILL) - At last, the first amendment Constitution Bill 2010 has become an Act of the National Assembly and has now taken ...
Reps Approve N236.5B For Second Reading
ABUJA, July 27, (THEWILL) - A week after President Goodluck Jonathan submitted the 2010 budget proposal for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to the ...
2011 Election: Sequence Not To Give Jonathan Edge
ABUJA, July 27, (THEWILL) - The Senate today described as frivolous allegations that the sequence of the 2011 elections was meant to give the President, ...
Nigeria’s Lawmakers Earn Highest Pay In The World - Sagay
LAGOS, July 27, (THEWILL) - A renowned scholar of law, Professor Itse Sagay today said Nigerian lawmakers at the lower and upper chambers of the ...
Senate Panel Denies Bribery Allegation To Kill Petroleum Industry Bill
PHOTO: L-R: CHAIRMAN, SENATE COMMITTEE ON GAS, SNATOR OSITA IZUNASO; CHAIRMAN SENATE COMMITTEE ON UPSTREAM PETROLEUM, SENATOR LEE MAEBA; AND CHAIRMAN, SENATE COMMITTEE, DOWNSTREAM PETROLEUM, SENATOR EMMANUEL PAULKER AT THE PRESS BRIEFING TODAY, JULY 27, 2010....
CBN Injects N130B To Real Sector
PHOTO: L-R: VICE PRESIDENT, GLOBAL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL, MR JYRIKI KOSKELO, CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR SANUSI LAMIDO SANUSI AND COUNTRY MANAGER, IFC, NIGERIA AFRICA DEPARTMENT, MR SOLOMON ADEGBIE-QUAYNOR AT THE CBN IN ABUJA TODAY, JULY 27, 2010....
WHAT WAS A LIBRARY?
Libraries in Europe and elsewhere I hear are grappling with their roles for the future in the new light shed by the information age where ...
GOV. AMAECHI: HOPE, UNITY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN RIVERS
PHOTO: RIVERS STATE GOVERNOR, MR ROTIMI CHIBUIKE AMAECHI....
Nigerian Governors Stop Short Of Backing Jonathan
Governors of Nigeria's northern states said on Tuesday southern President Goodluck Jonathan had the constitutional right to stand in elections next year but stopped short ...
Port Harcourt Refinery Starts Production
PHOTO: L-R: NNPC GMD, ENGR AUSTEN ONIWON WITH CBN GOVERNOR, MALLAM SANUSI LAMIDO SANUSI DURING ONIWON'S VISIT TO THE CBN OFFICE TODAY, JULY 27, 2010....
PRESIDENT JONATHAN, ONOVO AND THE KIDNAPPING MATTER
PHOTO: THE NIGERIAN JOURNALISTS WHO WERE RELEASED FROM CAPTIVITY BY THEIR KIDNAPPERS IN ABIA STATE....
NNPC Insolvency: Obasanjo Ordered $18M Invested In Swazi Sugar Firm
PHOTO: FORMER PRESIDENT, GENERAL OLUSEGUN OBASANJO....
2011: Jang To Drop Tallen As Rift Worsens
PHOTO: A FILE PHOTO OF PLATEAU STATE GOVERNOR, MR JONAH DAVID JANG (Middle); HIS ESTRANGED DEPUTY, MRS PAULINE TALLEN (L) WITH US OUT GOING AMBASSADOR TO NIGERIA, MS. ROBIN SANDERS, DURING HER VISIT TO JOS IN 2008....THE MAKING OF ANOTHER PRESIDENCY’S IBORI
Editor, THE MAKING OF ANOTHER PRESIDENCY’S IBORI We are all aware of how the corrupt former governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, who ensured that his ...ENDING ORJI UZOR KALU’S POLITICAL CLOUT
Sir, ENDING ORJI UZOR KALU’S POLITICAL CLOUT Orji Uzor Kalu could be a master in ‘fooling’ technology. But indeed it is true that while it ...THINGS JONATHAN COMMISSIONED IN AKWA IBOM?
Dear Editor, THINGS JONATHAN COMMISSIONED IN AKWA IBOM? Borrowing from columnist Patience Akpan-Obong, ("Medals") in Saturday Punch of 24/7/10, quote: "I recently read two newspaper ...
Akunyili Lobbied Yar’Adua For Anambra PDP Guber Ticket – Soludo
PHOTO: CONTROVERSIAL MINISTER OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS, PROFESSOR DORA AKUNYILI....
FCT Sets Up Committee To Implement Report Of Ministerial Land Committee
PHOTO: FCT MINISTER BALA ABDULKADIR MOHAMMED....
BEYOND SETTING UP THE AMBROSE ALLI UNIVERSITY SEX PROBE: INSTITUTE A CRISIS DROP-IN-CENTER NOW
PHOTO: RANDY AMBROSE ALLI UNIVERSITY LECTURER, MR PETER OTUBU WRITES A CHEQUE FOR N100, 000 TO APPEASE THE FEMALE STUDENT HE SOLICITED SEX FROM....
20 REASONS WHY NIGERIANS WANT GOVERNOR SHEKARAU AS PRESIDENT IN MAY 2011
PHOTO: KANO STATE GOVERNOR, IBRAHIM SHEKARAU....
S’ South Governors To Jonathan: Declare, We Will Support You
PHOTO: SOUTH SOUTH GOVERNORS DURING A MEETING IN PORT HARCOURT, RIVERS STATE TODAY, JULY 26, 2010....
Fraud: Senate Summons Minister, Probes Housing Ministry
ABUJA, July 26, (THEWILL) - The Ministry of Housing and Urban Development is currently enmeshed in allegations of fraud in the implementation of the 2008 ...JONATHAN NOT THE ‘MESSIAH’ BUT FORE-RUNNER
Sir, JONATHAN NOT THE ‘MESSIAH’ BUT FORE-RUNNER It is most likely that if President Jonathan ventures to contest the 2011 presidency, he would not find ...
Remains Of Bauchi Emir Arrives, Interred In Family Cemetery
JOS, July 25, (THEWILL) - The remains of the late emir of Bauchi, Alhaji Suleiman Adamu Jumba arrived Bauchi Sunday evening. The corpse arrived Bauchi airport ...
AC Tasks FG, N/A On 2011 Polls, INEC May Receive Funds This Week
PHOTO: INEC CHAIRMAN, PROFESSOR ATTAHIRU JEGA....
10 Years Budget: NNPC Fails To Comply With Senate's Order
ABUJA, July 25, (THEWILL) - The NNPC has failed to submit all the documents required by the Senate Committee on Petroleum Upstream Sector led by ...
Minister Charges Foreign Missions To Develop Abuja Plots
ABUJA, July 25, (THEWILL) - All foreign missions that are yet to develop their plots in Abuja have been called upon to do so in ...
Reps Seek N10M Compensation For Family Of Slain Corp Member
ABUJA, July 25, (THEWILL) - The House of Representatives Joint Committees On Women Affairs, Women in Parliament and Human Rights has recommended a N10 million ...
PDP Means Political Annihilation, APGA Tells Gov. Orji
PHOTO: THEODORE ORJI, ABIA STATE GOVERNOR....
Emir Of Bauchi Dies After A 28-Year Reign
PHOTO: ALHAJI SULEIMAN ADAMU JUMBA, THE LATE EMIR OF BAUCHI....
ANPP CONVENTION: BETWEEN CREDIBILITY AND MONEY
Recently, the INEC Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega told his Residence Electoral Commissioners in the States never to collect money from any governor so that the ...
NIGERIAN JUDICIARY AS TEMPLE OF CORRUPTION
PHOTO: CHIEF JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT OF NIGERIA, JUSTICE ALOYSIUS KATSINA-ALU....
I Craved To Be Ambassador Under MKO Abiola’s Presidency - Carrington
PHOTO: L-R: LAGOS STATE GOVERNOR, BABATUNDE FASHOLA; AMBASSADOR WALTER CARRINGTON AND WIFE, ARESE; ONDO STATE GOVERNOR, OLUSEGUN MIMIKO; CHIEF EMEKA ANYAOKU AND SENATOR BOLA TINUBU AT THE BOOK LAUNCH IN HONOUR OF WALTER CARRINGTON ON HIS 80TH BIRTHDAY TODAY, JULY 24, 2010....
Delta NUT Chairman Raises Alarm Over Threat To Life
PHOTO: DELTA STATE GOVERNOR, DR EMMANUEL UDUAGHAN....
2011 ELECTIONS: FLOATING OF POLITICAL PARTIES
There are a lot of sides to the 2011 general elections, less than half a year away. One side and the seemingly most interesting part ...
Good Governance, Pan-African Synergy Crucial To Kicking Polio Out Of Africa
ABUJA, July 23, (THEWILL) - Rotary’s promise to kick polio out of Africa and the world received a big boost today from Celtel founder Mo ...
S’ Court Judge Designate Demands 80-Year Retirement Age For Judges
ABUJA, July 23, (THEWILL) - Justice Suleiman Galadima, a nominee for the Supreme Court Bench today suggested that retirement age for judges of both the ...
Uduaghan Admonishes Military Pensioners On Security
ASABA, July 23, (THEWILL) - Delta State Governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan has charged Retired Military Pensioners to use their wealth of experience positively and avoid negative ...
Uduaghan Swears In Delta’s First Female SSG, Calls For Dedication
PHOTO: DELTA STATE GOVERNOR, DR EMMANUEL EDUAGHAN....
Gunmen Blow Up Nigerian Politician's Home In Oil Delta
Gunmen attacked the home of a top politician in Nigeria's southern oil region with explosives on Friday, the latest episode in a bitter political rivalry ...
Theodore Orji Bluffs PDP, Gives Four Conditions
PHOTO: L-R: PDP NATIONAL CHAIRMAN, DR OKWESILIEZE NWODO AND ABIA STATE GOVERNOR, MR THEODORE ORJI....
Clark Rejects Uduaghan’s B'Day Car Gift; I Didn't Give Him Any Car - Uduaghan
PHOTO: THE FORD EXPEDITION SUV ALLEGEDLY GIVEN TO CHIEF EDWIN KIAGBODO CLARK BY DELTA STATE GOVERNOR EMMANUEL UDUAGHAN....
Journalists Attacked By Police, Political Thugs Over Collapsed Building
PHOTO: THE COLLAPSED PROPERTY IN OGUNU, WARRI....
INEC Must Conduct Elections On Schedule - Senate
PHOTO: DEPUTY SENATE PRESIDENT, SENATOR IKE EKWEREMADU....
NLC, CSOs Ask Jega To Shift 2011 Polls
PHOTO: INEC CHAIRMAN, PROFESSOR ATTAHIRU JEGA TAKING HIS OATH OF OFFICE INSIDE THE PRSIDENTIAL VILLA A FEW WEEKS AGO....
WALTER OMOWALE CARRINGTON AT 80
PHOTO: FORMER UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR TO NIGERIA, MR WALTER CARRINGTON (middle) WITH WIFE, ARESE; AND LAGOS STATE GOVERNOR, MR BABATUNDE TUNDE FASHOLA AT A SYMPOSIUM IN LAGOS ON JUNE 01, 2010. ...
Attah To EFCC: Prove That I am Guilty
PHOTO: R-L: OBONG VICTOR ATTAH AND HIS LAWYER, MR MIKE OZEKHOME AT THE EFCC HEADQUARTERS RECENTLY....
SIMPLY ‘1 PLUS 1’ NIGERIANS DON’T KNOW
One day I walked into the house and my three year old last son...just screamed out in a song...the young boy seems to love the ...
THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF ASANTE KOTOKO
Aside from politics, nowhere in Africa is the intersection between juju and groups more pronounced than soccer. From high schools to professional soccer teams, juju ...
N15B Fraud: EFCC Re-Arraigns Ex-Governor Adamu, 11 Others On Fresh Charges
ABUJA, July 22, (THEWILL) - A fresh 170-count charge has been filed against former governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Adamu. As a result, he was ...
Bank Collapse Spiked Kidnapping In the East - Ohakim
PHOTO: IMO STATE GOVERNOR IKEDI OHAKIM (R) WITH AIDES AT THE MURTALA MOHAMMED AIRPORT LAGOS ON ARRIVAL FOR HIS 3-DAY WORKING VISIT TO LAGOS TODAY, JULY 22, 2010. ...
Senate Passes Electoral Bill
ABUJA, July 22, (THEWILL) - Barely twenty hours after it formally gazetted the revised 1999 Constitution, the Senate today unanimously passed the Electoral bill, thus ...
UBEC Scam: You Must Face Trial, Court Tells Sokan, Others
San Francisco, July 22, (THEWILL) - A Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja has ruled that former Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, ...
Six New Fish Markets For FCT - Minister
ABUJA, July 22, (THEWILL) - The FCT Administration is establishing Fish Farm Estates in all the six Area Councils of the Federal Capital Territory where ...
Election May Not Hold if…. Jega, Wants N72B For Voters’ Register
PHOTO: R-L: INEC CHAIRMAN, PROFESSOR ATTAHIRU JEGA; COMMISSIONER OF INFORMATION AND PUBLICITY, MR SOLOMON SOYEBI AND COMMISSIONER MR NUHU YAKUBU, DURING THE PRESS CONFERENCE IN ABUJA, TODAY, JULY 22, 2010. ...
Ribadu: Why I Joined the Nigeria Police Force
PHOTO: MALLAM NUHU RIBADU SPEAKING AT THE LECTURE ORGANIZED BY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SEADOGS TO MARK PROFESSOR WOLE SOYINKA'S 76TH BIRTHDAY....
Bomb Scare In Jos
PHOTO: PUPILS OF POLICE CHILDREN, JOS DURING THEIR GRADUATION TODAY, JULY 22, 2010....DAVID MARK AND HIS NONSENSICAL STATE OF EMERGENCY
Sir, DAVID MARK AND HIS NONSENSICAL STATE OF EMERGENCY Senate President David Mark is first among equals at the upper chamber of the national assembly. ...JOURNALISTS: THANKS, GOVS AMAECHI & ORJI
Editor, JOURNALISTS: THANKS, GOVS AMAECHI & ORJI Relying on statements coming from the kidnapped journalists, it became understood that the kidnappers informed them that they ...
Multi-Links Deploys Hi-tech Solution For Fibre Optic Protection
ABUJA, July 21, (THEWILL) - Multi-Links Telkom has achieved another laudable milestone enabling network availability and enhancing superior customer experience with the completion of the ...
ECOMOG Soldiers Abandon Their 250, 000 Children In Liberia
PHOTO: A FILE PHOTO SHOWING PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN RECEIVING A PLAQUE FROM THE CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF, LT. GENERAL ABDULRAHAMAN DAMBAZAU. PHOTO: NAN....
AMCON: CBN, NDIC, Banks Set Aside N1TR For Take-Off
PHOTO: L-R: OUT GOING GMD, UBA GROUP PLC, MR TONY ELUMELU WITH KWARA STATE GOVERNOR, DR BUKOLA SARAKI DURING THE COMMISSIONING OF A BUSINESS OFFICE OF UBA IN EGOSI, KWARA STATE TODAY, JULY 21, 2010....
N/A, INEC Independent, S' Houses Loose Autonomy, Polls For January
PHOTO: DEPUTY SENATE PRESIDENT' SENATOR IKE EKWEREMADU....
FG Approves N528M For Police Vehicles
PHOTO: L-R: MINISTER OF AVIATION, MRS. FIDELIA NJEZE; MINISTER OF STATE, INTERIOR, MR. HUMPHREY ABAH AND THE MINISTER OF THE FCT, ABUJA, SENATOR BALA ABDULKADIR MOHAMMED AT THE FEDERAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING INSIDE THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS, STATE HOUSE, ABUJA TODAY, JULY 21, 2010....
NNPC Denies Report On Privatization Of Refineries, PPMC
ABUJA, July 21, (THEWILL) - The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has denied reports being circulated by industry unions that the Federal Government is planning ...
Senate Approves N6.6B For 50th Anniversary Celebration
ABUJA, July 21, (THEWILL) - President Goodluck Jonathan got his N6.6 billion naira to celebrate Nigeria’s 50th anniversary courtesy of a Senate approval today. Jonathan ...
Africa's 1st Fibre Optic Cable Takes off In Lagos
ABUJA, July 21, (THEWILL) - A major breakthrough was recorded today as MainOne Company Limited launched the first fibre optic cable technology aimed at bringing ...
NNPC, US Synergize On PIB
PHOTO: L-R: NNPC GMD, ENGR AUSTEN ONIWON WITH US AMBASSADOR TO NIGERIA, MS. ROBIN SANDERS AT THE CORPORATION'S OFFICE ON TUESDAY, JULY 20, 2010....
AC Kicks Against Fresh Council Elections In Osun
PHOTO: ACTION CONGRESS NATIONAL PUBLICITY SECRETARY, ALHAJI LAI MOHAMMED....
NNPC Is Broke, Oniwon Tells Senate, Past Leaders Responsible For Insolvency
ABUJA, July 21, (THEWILL) - The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr. Austen Oniwon today confirmed that the corporation is ...
Approval Of COSON By Copyright Commission Aligns With FG's Agenda- AGF
ABUJA, July 20, (THEWILL), - The approval given to the Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) by Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) as the sole Collective Management ...THE MANY VERSIONS FROM THE KIDNAPPED JOURNALISTS
Dear Sir, THE MANY VERSIONS FROM THE KIDNAPPED JOURNALISTS In what appears to be a twist in the kidnap, release and the aftermath information of ...RE: NIGERIA MAY LOOSE EITI CANDIDATE STATUS
Dear Editor Re: Nigeria may loose EITI candidate status I am writing to respond to the publication on Guardian Newspapers on Wednesday 14th of July where Mr. ...
Police Parade Over 32 Suspects, 2 Undergraduates in Delta
PHOTO: DELTA STATE POLICE COMMISSIONER YAKUBU ALKALI....
Ika Youths Besiege Delta Assembly, Demand Justice For Politician
PHOTO: PROTESTING YOUTHS AT THE DELTA STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY TODAY, JULY 20, 2010....
Dependent Legislature Smacks Danger For Nigeria’s Democracy - Mark
PHOTO: R-L: SENATE PRESIDENT DAVID MARK RECEIVING THE RESOLUTION OF STATE HOUSES OF ASSEMBLY FROM THE CHAIRMAN, CONFERENCE OF SPEAKERS, HON. HARUNA GBANA LAST WEEK IN ABUJA....
Plateau Deputy Speaker Wants Mazah Killings Probed
JOS, July 20, (THEWILL) - Deputy Speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly, Ibrahim Baba Hassan, has demanded for the probe of last Saturday's ...
UNDERSTANDING NIGERIA….MY FIVE NAIRA RANSOM!
PHOTO: CHAIRMAN OF THE PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY, PDP, DR OKWESILIEZE NWODO (R) WITH ADAMAWA STATE GOVERNOR, MURTALA NYAKO (M) DURING A SOLIDARITY VISIT TO THE PDP WADATA PLAZA TODAY IN SUPPORT OF PRESIDENT JONATHAN'S PERCEIVED 2011 PRESIDENTIAL AMBITION. ...
2011: Feuding Edo PDP Plans Harmonization
BENIN CITY, July 20, (THEWILL) - The feuding Edo State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said it has concluded plans to harmonize warring ...
N2.2B NGA Scam: EFCC Alleges Threat To Witness Life
ABUJA, July 20, (THEWILL) - A new twist was on Tuesday July 20 added to the on-going trial of the former Director General of the ...
Why We Stopped Land Allocation In Abuja – FCT Minister
PHOTO: FCT MINISTER BALA ABDULKADIR MOHAMMED....
Oceanic Bank Engages Shareholders On Future Plans
PHOTO: L-R: OCEANIC BANK GMD, MR JOHN ABOH WITH BANK CHAIRMAN, APOSTLE HAYFORD ALILE AT OCEANIC'S INTERACTIVE SESSION WITH SHAREHOLDERS....
Soyinka Founds New P' Party, Politicians Laundered $10B - Ribadu
PHOTO: R-L: LAGOS STATE GOVERNOR, MR BABATUNDE FASHOLA, NOBEL LAUREATE, PROFESSOR WOLE SOYINKA AND MR NUHU RIBADU ARRIVING FOR THE LECTURE AT THE MUSON CENTRE ORGANIZED FOR SOYINKA BY THE SEADOGS ON HIS 76TH BIRTHDAY, TODAY JULY 20, 2010. ...KIDNAPPED JOURNALISTS: Wider Investigation Needed
Sir, KIDNAPPED JOURNALISTS: Wider Investigation Needed Every Nigerian (except the crooks and those who encourage them) is happy about the eventual release of the kidnapped ...
Jonathan Nominates Two INEC Commissioners, Names Two S’ Court Justices
PHOTO: NIGERIAN PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN WELCOMES IVORIAN SPECIAL ENVOY, MRS. DELESSE MODRI M. GENEROSE DURING HER VISIT FOR A MEETING WITH PRESIDENT JONATHAN AT THE PRESIDENTIAL VILLA, TODAY, JULY 20, 2010....
New Constitution To Be Sent To Attorney General For Circulation
ABUJA, July 20, (THEWILL) - The Deputy Speaker and Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution, Hon. Usman Bayero Nafada ...
ABIA: Kidnappers Plan To Disrupt 2011 Elections
LAGOS, July 20, (THEWILL) - Lagos State Council Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Alhaji Wahab Oba, smarting from his release after one ...
House Insists On Stopping Post-UME Test By Universities
PHOTO: THE COVENANT UNIVERSITY LIBRABY, OGUN STATE...
Black Nigerian Wife Delivers White Baby
PHOTO: BEN AND ANGELA IHEGBORO WITH BABY NMACHI. PHOTO: PETER SIMPSON & NEIL HALL/THE SUN...
Kidnapping: Police Begin Mass Transfer Of Officers In South East
PHOTO: PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN, VICE PRESIDENT NAMADI SAMBO, WITH SOME GOVERNORS OF SOUTH EASTERN STATES AND ELDERS DURING A COURTESY VISIT TO THE VILLA TODAY TO DISCUSS THE INSECURITY IN THE SOUTH EAST AMONSGT OTHER MATTERS. ...
Nude Photos: It Wasn’t Me – Wande Coal
PHOTO: WANDE COAL (L) AND D'BANJ, DURING THE PRESS CONFERENCE....
Kidnappers Stole Only N1.6M From Us Not N3M – Lagos NUJ Chairman
LAGOS, July 19, (THEWILL) – The controversy surrounding the monies allegedly stolen from the four Nigerian journalists abducted last week continued today as the Chairman ...
Jonathan Signs "Bad Bank" Bill Into Law
PHOTO: PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN SIGNING THE BILL CREATING THE AMCON....
How Art Gallery Ex-DG, Joe Musa, Diverted N2.2bn - Witness
San Francisco, July 19, (THEWILL) - Justice Olukayode Adeniyi of the FCT High Court, Lugbe, Abuja was today told how former Director General, National Gallery ...
Plateau Military Task Force Sanctions Five Personnel
PHOTO: SOME JUNIOR OFFICERS OF THE NIGERIAN ARMY....
Bukuru Market Traders Want Court To Halt Relocation Of Market
JOS, July 19, (THEWILL) - Traders in Bukuru market in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau state today dragged the Jos South Local Government ...JONATHAN, NATIVE DOCTOR AND DOUBLE-SPEAKS
Sir, JONATHAN, NATIVE DOCTOR AND DOUBLE-SPEAKS If people should analysis some statements coming from President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, some would pass him as a leader that should ...JOURNALISTS’ KIDNAP: JONATHAN SAYS ONE KIDNAPPER ARRESTED
Dear Editor, JOURNALISTS’ KIDNAP: JONATHAN SAYS ONE KIDNAPPER ARRESTED Reading the Saturday Tribune July 17, 2010, online, was a story where President Jonathan came hard on the ...Re: IBOM AIRPORT’S VARIOUS COMPLETION LEVELS
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Former Radio Nigeria Boss Risks Prosecution Over N4.419B Contract
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House Orders PTDF To Refund N25.4M To FG
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UBA Posts Strong Half Year Results
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