Jonathan Seeks NASS Approval for N273.5bn Amended Budget
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday formally requested the National Assembly to approve the sum of N273.522bn amended budget. According to a breakdown of the budget amendment addressed separately to Senate…
Brigadier-General Olukolade Now Defence Spokesman
A new Director of Defence Information (DDI) has been appointed for the Defence Headquarters. He is Brigadier General Chris Olukolade. Brigadier General Chris Olukolade replaces the former DDI, Colonel Mohammed…
Reps to Meet Jonathan over Continuous Terror Attacks
The Federal House of Representative is planning to hold a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan to discuss continued attacks in the North by terrorist groups in the country, led by…
Nigeria’s Foreign Reserve Now $49.3 billion
Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has disclosed that the country’s foreign reserve has risen from about $30bn in 2009 to $49.3bn. Sanusi disclosed this at…
Jonathan condemns Kano bomb attack, pledges to defeat terrorists
President Goodluck Jonathan has condemned in strong terms the bomb blasts in Kano, which is believed to have cost over 60 lives. A statement from the President’s office posted on…
APC Registration ignored at INEC Meeting
The opposition coalition comprising the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), and the All Nigerian People’s Party (ANPP) minus the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) who…
Obama Snubs Jonathan over Africa’s Democracy Summit
President Goodluck Jonathan, who is still smarting from scathing global criticisms of the presidential pardon he recently granted embattled former Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha, is facing…
Pope Francis leads Inaugural Mass at Vatican
Pope Francis officially began his ministry as the 266th pope on Tuesday in an inauguration Mass simplified to suit his style, but still grand enough to draw princes, presidents, rabbis,…
Alams’ pardon: the privilege of indignation
Editor: President Goodluck Jonathan’s pardon for Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha is expectedly eliciting quite a lot of surprise, indignation and condemnation. Public commentators and individual citizens have used the media to…
Mistakes of the President, Faults of the Advisers
It is a universal norm of governance that no leader leads without advisers, and time has ascertained that a leader who acts solely on his own judgment surely falls. Consultations…