Lagos State Civil Servants have been promised a new deal of salary structure and leave bonus arrangement most suitable to the generality of the workers if the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC retains the coming governorship elections. Akinwunmi Ambode, the APC governorship candidate in the state said this at an interactive session with Permanent Secretaries,…
Abacha Loot: Switzerland to Return $380 million to Nigeria
Geneva’s public prosecutor, on Tuesday, said that Switzerland will return $380 million (360 million euros) to Nigeria, as part of funds looted by Sani Abacha, former Nigerian military ruler. The prosecutor also announced that it was closing a 16-year case on the funds. This follows a July 2014 deal between Nigeria and the Abacha family,…
Senate Approves Extra $200m Loan Request For Jonathan
The Senate has granted President Goodluck Jonathan’s request for an additional $200m Diaspora Bond from the international market on Tuesday. On February 4, 2015, Jonathan sought the approval of the Senate to increase the initial $100m that had been earlier approved in the 2012-2014 Borrowing Plan. This request was made known to Senator David…
Ezekwesili Extols Jega, Says Card Reader Important for Transparent Elections
Oby Ezekwesili, former minister of Education and leader of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign oragnisation, has described Attahiru Jega, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as one who “will be remembered upon successful completion of the 2015 elections as the Nigerian that fixed the opaqueness of the country’s electoral system.” The former…
Pakistan Carries Out Mass Hangings
Pakistani authorities have hanged 12 convicts, the largest number of people executed on the same day since the country overturned a ban on executions recently. According to an interior ministry spokesperson, the hanged convicts were terrorists and murderers guilty of “heinous crimes”. At least 27 convicts have been executed since the moratorium was lifted, most…
AYC 2015: Nigeria, Ghana To Clash Again
After confirming their place in the FIFA Under 20 World Cup following a seven point gross during the group stage, the Flying Eagles of Nigeria must now face their perennial rivals, Ghana, in the semi final stage of the 2015 African Youth Championship holding in Senegal on Wednesday. The Black Satellites of Ghana rounded off…
Journalists Mark International Women’s Day with Share-fair
Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, WSCIJ, and its partner, the Netherlands Embassy, on Friday, March 13, held a share-fair event themed ‘Report Women: Make It Happen’ amongst journalists to commemorate the International Women’s Day. The event was organized to contribute to improving the quality, quantum and perhaps impact of reportage on girls and women…
Edo: 12 PDP Members Defect To APC
Twelve members of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP’s Executive Council including the chairman in Ukpato Ward, Orhiomwon Local Government Area in Edo State, decamped to the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Monday. Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, Edo State governor, received the new APC members saying that their exit from PDP further weakens the party’s hold in…
China Emerges World’s Third-largest Arms Exporter
China has overtaken Germany as the world’s third-largest exporter of arms and cut its dependence on imports by producing more sophisticated weapons, statistics released on Monday by a Sweden-based research organisation says. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, China surpassed Germany in the five-year period ended in 2009 and the five-year period ended…
Court Stops Cancels Restriction of Movement on Sanitation Days
A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos State has stopped monthly environmental sanitation exercise held on every last Saturday of the month in Lagos State. Delivering judgement in a suit filed by Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, human rights activist and Lawyer who challenged the legality of the 3 hours restriction, Justice Mohammed Idris held on Monday…
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