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DANIEL IDONOR, Abuja
Barely 24 hours after Federal
Government ordered the prosecution of all those indicted by the report of
investigation into the sale of the nation’s steel firms, President Umaru
Musa Yar’Adua yesterday declared that nobody would be spared in the ongoing
clampdown on corrupt officials.
Resist
undemocratic leaders –Atiku
•Kalu: OBJ, new face of
corruption
KALU OKWARA and
MANSUR OLADUNJOYE
FORMER Vice President, Atiku Abubakar
yesterday warned against leaving the fate of Nigeria in the hands of those
he called "emperors," urging the citizenry to stand up against election
rigging.
Court
acquits Bamaiyi of murder
Patience Akpuru and
Ebele Akpeh
AN Ikeja High Court Lagos yesterday
discharged and acquitted former Chief of Army staff, Lt General Ishaya
Bamaiyi of attempted murder of the publisher of The Guardian, Mr.
Alex Ibru and two others. |
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Anambra lawmakers fight over budget
ODOGWU EMEKA ODOGWU,
Awka
PEOPLES Democratic Party (PDP)
dominated Anambra State House of Assembly was yesterday rocked by a
free for all over deliberation on the 2008 Appropriation Bill of
N84.2 billion.
Kogi Assembly bows to NBA
•Re-instates CJ
TIMOTHY AJIBOYE, Lokoja
ACTING governor of Kogi State,
Hon. Clarence Olafemi, yesterday reinstated the sacked Chief Judge
(CJ) of the state, Justice Umaru Eri.
•(R-l) Gov. Babatunde Fashoa of Lagos State, former Vice President
Atiku Abubakar and Prof. Ben Nwabueze at the presentation of
Nwabueze’s books yesterday in Lagos. Photo: Joshua Ahante
Energy Probe:
Reps shocked over $86m
power project
DENNIS NAKU,
Yenagoa
CHAIRMAN, House of
Representatives committee on Power and Steel, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu
yesterday condemned the level of work on Bayelsa State Independent
Power Project (IPP). |
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Scared judge dumps trial of royal father
CHINEDU WOSU,
Port Harcourt
Presiding judge on the trial
of the Amanyanabo of Konuju Town in Okrika, Rivers State Justice E.
Teetito yesterday washed his hands off the case and announced that
he would no longer preside over the seeming delicate matter.
Wema Bank: ICPC quizzes NDIC BOSS
Erasmus Alaneme,
Abuja
Independent Corrupt Practices
and Other Related offences Commission (ICPC) yesterday continued its
investigation in the WEMA Bank Plc fraud when it quizzed the
Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian Deposit
Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Alhaji Ganiyu Ogunleye, Acting Group
Managing Director of the Bank, Mr. John Aboh, and two senior staff
of both organisations.
Falana condemns secret trial of Henry
Okah
RAYMOND GUKAS,
Jos
COUNSEL to detained leader of
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Henry Okah,
Mr. Femi Falana, has berated the Federal Government over what he
described as "barbaric trial of a civilian under civil rule in
camera."
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