ABUJA — President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, urged the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court to dismiss the suit seeking to invalidate the outcome of the ongoing National Conference.
In a preliminary objection he entered against the suit, Jonathan, through his lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, …Jonathan seeks dismissal of anti-confab suit
LAGOS — THE Federal Government, yesterday, said it Was investigating suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, on suspicions of being a major financier of terrorism in the country.
This was revealed by the Department of State Services, DSS, in a c…DSS accuses Sanusi of financing Boko Haram
The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HOCSF), Alhaji Bukar Aji, has said that 1,050 civil servants, who were in the service illegally, would be retired in the next three weeks.
He spoke in Abuja at the ongoing 60th anniversary of the Nigeria Public Service Commission.
Aji said the…‘Federal Government to retire 1,050 civil servants soon’
Leaders of Borno and Yobe states – two states battling, along with Adamawa, the Boko Haram insurgency – yesterday alleged complicity of security forces in sect members.
They blamed the Federal Government for failing to rise up to the battle and lamented the sect’s wanton killings.
The leaders urg…Northeast leaders to govt: don’t extend state of emergency
President Goodluck Jonathan said yesterday that the Federal Government was adopting a new security architecture to end the Boko Haram insurgency, farmers/herdsmen crisis and other security challenges. He did not elaborate.
Dr. Jonathan spoke when Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stakeholders from…New ‘security architecture’ to end Boko Haram, other security challenges
Delegates to the National Conference adopted 70 per cent voting pattern to save the conference from an abrupt end, it was learnt yesterday.
National conference
The delegates also agreed on the principle of “give and take”, one of the 50 selected to resolve the thorny issue of voting pattern to…Why and how delegates adopted 70 per cent voting mode
State Security Service (SSS) officials are questioning detained Boko Haram suspects to ascertain if external collaborators were involved in Sunday’s failed —and bloody —jailbreak.
Twenty-one suspects died in the attempted jailbreak at the Abuja SSS facility, according to the Service.
Some suspe…SSS interrogates detained Boko Haram suspects
