•Pass bill to separate positions of board chairman from governor BY JAMES AKINOLA A bill to create the position of Chairman of the Board of the Central Bank of Nigeria, separate from the position of the governor, scaled second reading in the House of Representatives yesterday. Sponsor of the bill, FrancisContinue Reading
BY ADOLPHUS DURU There was pandemonium at the popular Balogun market, Tradefair complex,Lagos, when officials of the Ministry of Physical and Urban Planning led a cabinet member of the government stormed the market with thugs and mobile policemen. The Police were said to have shot into the air as theyContinue Reading
Justice Inyang Ekwo, rejected an ex-parte motion that was brought against the candidacy of Achonu by the LamidiApapa-led faction of the party. BY GODWIN OBI BARELY 48 hours to the governorship election in Imo State, a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, thwarted legal moves to stop the candidateContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Imo Elders Council says there should be consequences for the action of the Organised Labour in Imo State. The group on Thursday described as “unprecedented in the history of the world”, the action by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of NigeriaContinue Reading