The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi yesterday described the kerosene subsidy claim by NNPC as a scam saying that claims by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, of spending money on kerosene subsidy are not credible. . Sanusi made the declaration at the resumed Senate Investigative Public Hearing on un-remitted oil revenue in Abuja stressing that the sum of $20 billion was un-remitted to the Federation Account by the NNPC, between January 2012 and July 2013. . He said the burden of proof was now on the NNPC to substantiate that the $20…
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FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo and another former head of state, General Muhammadu Buhari, as well as Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State were, yesterday, conspicuously absent from the National Council of State, NCS, meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. . No reasons was given for the absence of Obasanjo but Buhari had earlier vowed that he would not attend the NCS until the injustice allegedly done to him during the 2011 presidential election was redressed. Amaechi was, however, said to be out of the country. . Those who attended, however, endorsed the proposed national conference by President Goodluck Jonathan saying…
The APC Registration Supervisory Committee for Kano State on Wednesday urged supporters of the party to come out en masse and register at polling units nearest to them. . The Chairman of the committee, Dr Mustapha Inuwa, made the call in an interview in Kano. . Inuwa said there was need for the supporters to show commitment and love for the party by coming out to register during the exercise. . “APC should have more people registered in Kano than anywhere in the country, considering the fact that Kano is the most populous state in the country. . “And with…
Property estimated at hundreds of millions of naira have been destroyed by fire at the popular Kara market in Sokoto. . Some of the items sold at the market included grains, onions, agricultural inputs, wheat offal, kola nuts, generators and spare parts, among others. . The fire started at about midnight on Tuesday. . It was said to have been ignited by an electrical spark at a shop opposite the Kofar-Kade gate. . There was, however, no loss of life or injury in the inferno. . The fire was still raging when NAN visited the scene at 6.30a.m. on Wednesday.…
Eight people were killed and 26 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a hotel in a Shiite minority neighbourhood in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar on Tuesday, officials said. . “Eight people were killed and twenty six have been injured in a suicide blast outside a local hotel yards away from an Imambargah (worship place of the Shiites),” senior police official Faisal Mukhtar told AFP. . Shafqat Malik, chief of Peshawar’s Bomb Disposal Unit, confirmed that it was a suicide blast. . Jamil Shah, a spokesman for the city’s government- run Leady Reading Hospital confirmed the casualties.…
The National Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, on Tuesday said that the party would compensate loyal members. . He made this known when the Goodluck Support Group (GSG) Elders Council, led by former Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu, visited him at the party`s national headquarters, Abuja. . Mu `azu, who was responded to complaints that loyal party members had not be adequately compensated, added that PDP would provide a level playing ground for all members. . He promised to meet President Goodluck Jonathan on how the party would adequately compensate loyal party members. . Meanwhile, Mu`azu has…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as reckless, irresponsible and totally condemnable the alleged threat by Mujahedeen Asari-Dokubo to levy war against Nigeria even if President Goodluck Jonathan is defeated even in a free and fair election in 2015. . It said the SSS must act immediately or be damned. . ”There is no better test of the fairness, non- partisanship and professionalism of the SSS than this Asari-Dokubo’s threat to levy war on his own country. . If Asari-Dokubo is not above the laws of the land, he must be hauled before the SSS, just like the service…
A RECENT post on the Facebook revealed that, apart from the office of the President and the Secretary to Government, other key appointments are held by the North. These include: The President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Office of the Head of service, the Chief Justice of the Federaltion and President of the Appeal Court, the Governor of the Central Bank, the Chairman of EFCC, the Inspector General of Police, the National Security Adviser, the Chief of Defence Staff, the Comptroller Generals of Custom Service, Immigration Service, and Prison Service. . Others are the…
THE Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Tuesday, told the Senate Committee on Finance that out of the $67 billion crude oil sale that was supposed to be remitted to the federation account only $47 billion has been reconciled between the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC and Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, leaving a balance of $20billion unaccounted for. . But Chairman, Senate Committee on Finance, Ahmed Makarfi cautioned the CBN Governor over making wild and unsubstantiated allegations without concrete and specific figures to back his claims. . Malam Sanusi came up with a new figure of about $20 billion…
Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, ordered that Dr. Mohammed Yunus, a lecturer at the Kogi State University, who allegedly sponsored a cell of the Boko Haram sect situated at Igala land in Kogi State, be transferred to Kuje Prison. . Justice Kolawole made the order shortly after the lecturer, Yunus, alongside two other alleged members of the sect, Salami Abdullahi and Umar Musa, pleaded not guilty to an eight-count terrorism charge preferred against them by the Federal Government yesterday. . The government, alleged that the trio had within May and October, 2013,…