From Azimazi Momoh Jimoh
• AP alleges smear campaign against Otedola
ARRANGEMENTS have been concluded by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to prosecute 260 persons suspected to be guilty of various offences including insider dealings within the troubled Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE).
SEC’s Director-General, Arunma Oteh, at a meeting with the House of [...]
By: Habeeb Pindiga & Muideen Olaniyi
The National Caucus of the PDP rose from a meeting early morning yesterday rejecting moves to initiate a process for the removal of provisions on zoning and rotation from the party’s constitution.
But the caucus agreed that President Goodluck Jonathan was free to stand for elections in 2011.At [...]
By: Hassan Ibrahim, Uchechukwu Olisah, Jackson Udom and Leon Usigbe
• South-South stakeholders woo North over Jonathan
• Abrogating aspirants’ rights can cause problem – Marwa
THE Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), on Tuesday, resolved that all political parties should endeavour to field northern candidates for the 2011 presidential election.
ACF said this in a communiqué issued [...]
By: Johnchuks Onuanyim & Godwin Isenyo
• ACF insists on 2011
FRONTLINE politicians from the North and South-East yesterday took a stand in support of the controversial presidential zoning arrangement in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The decision that presidential power must be retained in the North until 2015 was reached after four hours of [...]
By: Niyi Odebode, Kemi Obasola and Fidelis Soriwei
The 2011 presidential ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan has torn two influential friends in former President Olusegun Obasanjo‘s administration apart.
The two men— Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and Nasiru El-Rufai— were thought to be solidly behind President Jonathan‘s ambition.
Ribadu, a former Chairman of the [...]
By: ISMAIL OMIPIDAN and GARBA MUHAMMAD
…Says all parties must present Northern candidates
After weeks of dilly-dallying, initially saying the debate on zoning was a Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) affair, the Arewa Consultative [...]
By: Emmanuel Ogala
The Senate has approved a supplementary budget of N87.7 billion for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to aid the commission in organizing credible elections in 2011.
The approval is N2 billion less than the N89.59 billion the electoral body had requested. Following a meeting of INEC officials and INEC [...]
By: Olayinka Olukoya and Lekan Yinusa
FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo has denied rumour doing the rounds that he was shot by unknown gunmen, saying that nothing of such happened to him.
The former president, at the weekend, had given the hand of one of his daughters, Bunmi, in marriage at his Hill Top residence [...]
By: Alifa Daniel
• Senate rejects Obasanjo’s graft charges
APPARENTLY disturbed by the falling revenue and the need to develop infrastructure nationwide, jump-start the economy and create jobs, President Goodluck Jonathan has sent a proposal to the National Assembly seeking approval to borrow the sum of $4.427 billion.
Another plea that he sent [...]
By: Odunayo Ogunmola
A POLITICAL pressure group urging President Goodluck Jonathan to run for president in 2011 has said its position is consistent with the zoning arrangement of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The Goodluck Support Group (GSG) made this claim during its inauguration in Ekiti State. The group said Jonathan “is [...]
