President Goodluck Jonathan, who was sworn in on Thursday hours after the death of President Umaru Yar’Adua, met former Nigerian heads of state, governors, and top officials from the ruling People’s Democratic Party to consult on picking a vice president. His choice could alter the course of elections due by next April because the new [...]
Nuhu Ribadu. PHOTO: NEXT The race for the Vice-President’s position heated up yesterday, even as arrangements were made to lay the body of the former president to rest. It emerged yesterday that several groups used Mr. Yar’Adua’s burial as a forum to lobby and express interest in the job. Some of the groups who have [...]
Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua, long plagued by poor health, has died at age 58, almost three months after his vice president assumed control of Africa’s most populous nation, Yar’Adua’s spokesman said. Yar’Adua died at 9 p.m. (2000 GMT) Wednesday at the Aso Rock presidential villa with his wife Turai at his side, presidential spokesman Olusegun [...]
Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s former president, on Tuesday in one of his dramatic displays, lashed back at clerics who had earlier criticized him over comments he made that there can be no free and fair elections in Nigeria even if Jesus Christ were the umpire. The clerics had said that Mr. Obasanjo needed deliverance (from demons) [...]
The nine-month action plan that may guide the declaration of partial emergency in the power sector will be presented today (Tuesday) to Acting President Goodluck Jonathan by the Presidential Advisory Committee on Power, led by Prof. Barth Nnaji. The Acting President, who recently constituted the Presidential Advisory Committee, retained the nominal headship, with the Minister [...]
The Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, is scheduled to meet with the Super Eagles before the team departs for the forthcoming FIFA World Cup holding in South Africa on May 20 in Abuja. The meeting place is the Transcorp Hotel in Abuja where a send-off will be organised for the World Cup-bound team. Thirty players [...]
Citing outrageous pricing and a breach of the due process law, the Senate Committee on Aviation has called for the cancellation of the controversial N64 billion contract for a second runway at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja. The committee, according to its clerk, Mr. Aborishade Victor, faulted the concept of design and construct adopted by [...]
Malam Nasir El-Rufai, former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has altered the details of the criminal charges filed against Nasiru El-Rufai, the former minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The charges brought against the former minister, which included the misappropriation of public funds to the tune [...]
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Vincent Ogbulafor, will be arraigned today at an Abuja High Court for allegedly defrauding the federal government of over N200 million. Principal Legal Officer of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Related Offences Commission (ICPC), which is prosecuting Ogbulafor, Paul Ahmed Bassi, told NEXT in a telephone [...]
Acting National Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, Mr. Philip Umeadi, said last night that the out-going National Chairman of the commission, Prof. Maurice Iwu, did not hand-over to him as directed by acting President Goodluck Jonathan, because Iwu was not comfortable with him as his acting successor. Jonathan, on April 27, directed that Iwu [...]
