News Desk Sunday, July 01, 2007

Unity Govt: 6 Cabinet Slots Tear AC Apart

LEADERS of the Action Congress (AC) were at the weekend bending backwards to cover a crisis emanating from the offer of one ministerial position and other subordinate positions in government by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led federal government. MORE>>

Gov. Chime, Nnamani's Rift Blows Open

ALLEGED friction between former governor of Enugu State, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani and his successor, Mr. Sullivan Chime, came to the fore yesterday when the former boycotted the civic reception organized for the deputy senate president, Senator Ike Ekweremadu and other National Assembly members from the state by the state government. MORE>>

Inside Abuja Dungeon

IN 1976 when the plan for a befitting federal capital for Nigeria was hatched, the vision of the founding fathers was to create a federal capital that will be home to all Nigerians irrespective of social status; a place where the mighty and lowly, the rich and famous as well as the poor and nobodies of the society can live together without the usual Nigerian factor of tribal, religious and economic barriers. MORE>>

Ministerial List: Yar'Adua Sends SSS, NIA to Nominees Villages

Security outfits currently screening the ministerial nominees whose names were forwarded to them by President Umaru Yar’Adua have visited the villages and former schools of the nominees, trying to ascertain some claims contained in their curriculum vitae. MORE>>

No Room for Looters in Yar'Adua's Govt - Akinjide

AS the nation awaits the composition of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s cabinet, an elderstatesman and former attorney general of the federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Richard Osuolale Akinjide (SAN), has told those hoping to make quick money in Yar’Adua’s government to look elsewhere. MORE>>

Obasanjo, Kingibe Clash

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babagana Kingibe may have disagreed over the appointment of ministers by the Umaru Yar’Adua administration. Sources informed Sunday Punch that Obasanjo is reportedly against the nomination of Kashim Imam, for a ministerial post by Borno PDP stakeholders, including Kingibe. MORE>>

FATF Stops Monitoring of Nigeria

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), last week, formally ended its monitoring of Nigeria over lingering suspicions that the country may still be a haven for money laundering and terrorist financing. MORE>>