The Suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, may be prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged acts of financial recklessness under his administration as. the CBN boss. . According to sources close to the Presidency, it was disclosed that Sanusi may be invited this week for questioning on the allegations against him. . President Goodluck Jonathan had last Thursday suspended Sanusi as the CBN Governor and appointed the most senior Deputy Governor of the bank, Sarah Alade, as acting Governor of the bank until the conclusion of ongoing investigations…
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Apparently disturbed by the growing attacks infringing on sthe ecurity of lives in the country, Sen. Gyang Pwajok has called for a tactical change that would tackle the roots, rather than the symptoms of the violence. . “The Federal Government must change tactics since the current efforts have not eliminated the violence. We must explore workable devices that will be more efficient because the situation is still bad,’’ Pwajok said on Sunday. . Pwajok, who represents crisis-ridden Plateau North, said in Jos, that the old approach over time had been to chase the attackers who could run to their hide-out,…
President Goodluck Jonathan will respond to questions from a panel of journalists and media executives on current national issues and developments in another edition of the Presidential Media Chat. . According to Reuben Abati, Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity), the chat will be broadcast live on Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) and the Voice of Nigeria (VON) at 7pm, tomorrow. . What questions are you expecting the President to be asked tomorrow?
Nigeria has sealed a portion of its northeastern border with Cameroon to block the movement of insurgents and other criminal groups, the military said Sunday. . The closure has been imposed in Adamawa state, one of three states in the northeast placed under emergency rule in May following waves of attacks by Boko Haram Islamists. . The military has launched a major offensive in the area aimed at crushing the Islamist uprising, which has killed thousands since 2009. . Nigeria claims that the Islamists have set up bases in sparsely populated areas of its northeastern neighbours — Cameroon, Chad and…
As the clock ticks towards the 2015 general elections, a group under the aegis of the Advance Nigeria Group, ANG, has called on the Senate President, David Mark to join the 2015 presidential race. . Addressing journalist in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, the Coordinator General of the ANG, Barry Idoga Odeh said the call was premised on the fact that “Mark is a politician with immense wealth of experience that can be used to advance the growth and stability of the country. . According of Odeh, “we are ready to mobilize Nigerians for the candidature of David Mark if…
Dr Paul Ezeonu, the Chief Medical Director, Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki (FETHA), says the institution embarked on mass recruitment of staff to meet the healthcare needs of the people in Ebonyi. . Ezeonu disclosed the recruitment to the Correspondent Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) on Sunday in Abakaliki that the staff would work in rural areas. . He spoke when members of the chapel visited him, noting that posting the staff to rural areas would reduce the mortality and morbidity cases. . “We employed an outpost programme with some missionary hospitals, such as the Mile 4 Hospital,…
Nigeria’s former Central Bank chief, Lamido Sanusi on Sunday described the president who ousted him as a simple man trying to do well who has been undermined by incompetent and fraudulent aides. . Sanusi was suspended by President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday over alleged financial misconduct, a move seen by many analysts as politically motivated. . Sanusi has accused the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) of misappropriating $20 billion (14.5 billion euros), allegations that earned him powerful enemies across the government. . In an interview with AFP in Lagos, Sanusi said many of the people advising Jonathan are sycophants who…
GOVERNOR Chibuike Amaechi has condemned the suspension of the governor Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Malam Sanusi Lamido, saying that the action was unconstitutional. . Amaechi who spoke Sunday at Christ Church, Port Harcourt said the President lacked the powers to suspend a CBN governor. . “You can imagine how President Jonathan announced the sudden removal (suspension) of the CBN Governor. . He does not have such powers. He knows that nothing will happen that was why he took that action. So, I think the preachers should begin to preach what we called the liberation theology. You (church leaders) are…
EFFORTS to build a consensus on fiscal federalism will take the centre stage in Yenagoa the Bayelsa State capital when apex ethnic nationalities brainstorm to formulate an agenda for the forthcoming national conference. . The apex nationalities coming together for this purpose are the Odua People Congress, Afenifere, Ohaneze Ndi Igbo, Itsekiri National Congress, Middle belt Congress, Urhobo Progressive Union, who have been invited to attend the Ijaw National Congress International day which is marking its annual celebration in Yenagoa today. . It was learnt that President Goodluck Jonathan has been invited as the special guest of honour while General…
Kano Emirate Council has condemned the suspension of Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi from the position of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor. . The Emirate council in a statement Friday signed by Walin Kano, Alhaji Mahe Bashir said “We viewed Mr. President action as a deliberate witch-hunt of the governor for doing his job by letting Nigerians to know the alleged fraud going at the petroleum industry and to divert people attention from this monumental fraud”. . The statement noted that ” As the President suspended the governor without a recall to the rule of law, We believed it was…
The National Vice Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, South East zone, Col Austin Akobundu (rtd) has said that the rally scheduled to hold today provide an opportunity for the reclamation of Imo State which was lost to All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA in 2011. . In a statement in Enugu, yesterday, Akobundu said that the PDP rally in Owerri and the president’s visit “are enough signs to the Rochas Okorocha’s government that the game is over for him and that his ragtag APC government should leave the stage for a people oriented party.” . The PDP chieftain welcomed…
THE Urhobo Council of Bishops and Elders (UCBE) has condemned the practice of ritual killings and sales of human parts in some parts of the country, describing it as barbaric and inhuman. . The group, in a statement by its Chairman, Rt. Rev Vincent Muoghereh and Secretary, Rt. Rev I.A Obie, said: “when the children are delivered, prospective customers pay for the babies and take these babies for whatever purpose for their purchase. We have degenerated to a level lower than animals, too bad.” . Lamenting that “baby factories are reported all over the country where young girls are camped…
A 50-year-old secondary school teacher, Mosumade Olusola, appeared in an Osogbo Magistrates’ Court for allegedly damaging a motorcycle belonging to one Akinde Solomon. . The prosecutor, Insp. Abiodun Fagboyinbo, told the court that the accused committed the offence on Feb. 17 at Capital Hotel in Osogbo. . Fagboyinbo said the accused pushed the complainant’s motorcycle from where it was packed into a gutter, damaging it in the process. . He said the offence was contrary to and punishable under Section 451 of the Criminal Code Cap 34 Vol.11 Laws of Osun 2003. . The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to…
The Acting Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr Sarah Alade, has urged staff of the bank to ensure the success of the bank’s policies and programmes. . This is contained in a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja by Mr Isaac Okoroafor, the bank’s Deputy Director, Corporate Communications. . It quoted the acting governor as saying, while addressing staff at the bank’s headquarters in Abuja on Friday, that the sudden management change should not discourage them from doing their jobs. . “We have to move on because the whole world is watching us to deliver on the statutory mandate…
The Federal Government said there was no more refugees camp in Nigeria, attributing the development to the fact that there was no more war in Liberia or Sierra Leone. . Mrs Hadiza Sani-Kangiwa, the Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer of National Commission for Refugees, . Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), announced this in Lagos on Friday. . She spoke at the donation of rice, noodles milk and clothes to the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA). . As a result, she said the government had expanded the mandate of the commission to include Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) since refugees…
The Speaker, House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, today, said that he would continue to safeguard the unity of the country. . Tambuwa was speaking as the Special Quest of Honour at the closing ceremony of the National Qur’anic Recitation Competition in Dutse. . He said that the break-up of the country, being insinuated by some Nigerians, was not the best for the country, pointing out that “united, the better for us as a people.” . The speaker, who said that Southern Sudan which broke up from Sudan had been engulfed in crisis, warned Nigerians to learn a lesson from…
Governor Seriake Dickson is the only governor in Nigeria who was sworn in on Valentine’s Day. . Penultimate Friday, while other people were celebrating Valentine, Dickson was explaining what his administration had been doing in the last two years and where he was taking the state to in the years ahead. He was also asked how he feel to be the governor of Mr. President. . Hear him: It is very exciting to be the governor of the President or Vice President. There are governors who even complain about having the National Chairman of the party from their state and…
Tragedy struck in Lagos as a 35-year-old man was found dead in a domestic well while another, together with a one-year-old baby, was rescued from an inferno. The incident happened in two different parts of Lagos as the state fire service responded to emergency calls. . The man, whose identity could not be ascertained, was said to be working in a domestic well at number 11, Akinyele Street, Oko Oba, Agege when he was trapped leading to his death. . Residents put a distress call to the Oko-Oba fire service station which arrived the scene but this was too late…
CHAIRMAN, Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF and Rivers State governor, Chibuike Amaechi has summoned an emergency meeting of the governors to take a position on the suspended governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. . In a statement Friday by NGF Director- General, Asishana Okauru, the Monday meeting though an emergency one is the third NGF Meeting in 2014 and will be chaired by Governor Amaechi at the Rivers State Governor’s lodge, Asokoro in Abuja at. 8pm prompt. . It will be recalled that President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday suspended the apex bank governor over alleged cases…
Gov. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has approved the immediate reopening of the Lagos State University (LASU) for normal academic activities. . This is contained in a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media, Mr Hakeem Bello, and made available to newsmen on Friday in Ikeja. . The statement said the reopening was in the interest of students and in compliance with the recommendation of the state House of Assembly Ad-hoc Committee on the recent disturbances in the school. . According to the statement, the governor has also approved N51million for the repairs of the institution’s…