News Desk Thursday, July 26, 2007

Yayale Heads Defense, Maduekwe, Foreign Affairs - as Yar'Adua Swears in Ministers Today

ABUJA — IMMEDIATE past head of the Federal Civil Service, Alhaji Yayale Ahmed, may emerge Defence Minister when President Umaru Yar’Adua inaugurates his cabinet today in Abuja. He is from Bauchi State.
Vanguard gathered last night that other high profile cabinet posts may be assigned as follows: MORE>>

Commissioner Accuses Kalu of Operating Foreign Accounts

ABUJA — A FORMER Commissioner in Abia State, Mr. Moses Agoh, has put more heat on former Governor Orji Kalu, accusing him of running the state treasury like a “family account.” Agoh who served as Commissioner for Finance under Kalu in a confessional statement to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), alleged that Kalu had substantial interest in banks in The Gambia, Liberia and Sierra-Leone, and that EFCC’s allegations against Kalu were correct. MORE>>

Out To Kill The Sun

Since the media reported Wednesday that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) has obtained an interim forfeiture order against the various assets of embattled former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, currently being prosecuted by the commission, including The Sun Publishing Limited, we have been inundated with sometimes highly emotional enquiries from all over the world. MORE>>

APGA Crisis: Umeh Urges Police To Arrest Iwu, Okorie

The lingering crisis in the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has taken a new turn as the party’s Chairman, Victor Umeh, has petitioned the Inspector General Of Police (IGP), Mike Okiro, urging him to investigate and prosecute both the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Maurice Iwu, and former Chairman of the party, Chekwas Okorie, for criminal offences bothering on forgery and altering of documents to obtain leadership of the party. MORE>>

Orji Kalu Knows Fate Tomorrow

A FEDERAL High Court judge, Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako would decide tomorrow whether or not to admit immediate past governor of Abia state, Orji Uzor Kalu to bail. Kalu is accused by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of allegedly laundering N2.7 billion belonging to the state for which a 107 count charge is levied by the anti-corruption agency. MORE>>

Yar'Adua Heads Energy Ministry

President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, like former president Olusegun Oba-sanjo, may preside over the Ministry of Energy, THISDAY has learnt. The Energy ministry will comprise Petroleum Reso-urces, Power and Steel, under the restructuring and rationalisation of ministries done by the former president. MORE>>