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Barring any last minute change, the Special Adviser to President Umaru Yar'Adua on National Assembly, Senator Mohammed Abba-Aji will today lay the 2010 budget to the Senate and the House of Representatives respectively.
Trial of the sacked managing director of Union Bank Plc, Mr. Bartholomew Ebong slated to begin yesterday was stalled by the absence of the presiding judge, Justice Dan Abutu who was away at Ilorin in Kwara State for the observance of the 2009/2010 legal year celebration.
Alhaji Ibrahim Bio, Minister of Federal Ministry of Transport on Sunday in Onitsha commended the quality of work being done at the dredging of Lower River Niger.
The Chairman of Unity Kapital Assurance Plc, Mallam Falalu Bello yesterday disclosed that financial report of the company indicated that it made over N518 million Profit After Tax (PAT) in the third quarter of the year, 2009.
A faction of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Adamawa State has accused the National Chairman of the party, Prince Vincent Ugbulafor of fuelling the crises among party members in the state.
Trading on equities quoted on the Nigerian stock Exchange (NSE) yesterday recorded a total trade turnover of 560.34 million shares at N2.03 billion in 5,273 deals. This shows an increase by 49.71 million shares against 510.53 million shares valued at N2.40 billion in 6,392 deals which opened trading.
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua will leave Abuja today for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Borno State Action Committee on human immuned virus/Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) (BOSACA has commence distribution of food, relief materials and instructional aids to schools.
Convicted former Chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority(NPA), Chief Olabode George may be in for fresh trouble as the Senate panel on the sale of government houses yesterday named him as one of the 'notable Nigerians' that illegally acquired government houses in choice areas of Lagos.
Former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamad has identified sound education, intelligence, discipline, incorruptibility and empathy as qualities those aspiring for leadership of a nation should possess.
Loyalists of the immediate past governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, were apprehensive yesterday as the much- expected ruling by the Federal High Court, Asaba, on the application filed by Ibori seeking to strike out the 170-count charge filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) did not hold.
The Peoples Democratic Party candidate in the 2007 governorship election in Anambra State, Dr Andy Uba, who recently lost his case at the Court of Appeal, Enugu, where he had sought to be declared Governor-in-waiting to take over from Governor Peter Obi on March 17, 2010, has said that the battle for his mandate was not over.
The National Executive of Project Uduaghan International (PUI) will be inaugurated today, November 24.
Vice President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said Nigerians will not depend on generators for their electricity supply by this time next year.
The Nigeria Police yesterday arraigned the 2007 gubernatorial candidate of the opposition Action Congress (AC), Engineer Rauf Aregbesola and a lawyer, Mr Olayinka Okedara before an Abuja high court sitting on a six count charge of conspiracy and forgery.
There is a judicial buffer to the budget crisis rocking the National Assembly, as a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ruled that the House of Representatives can seek the court's interpretation of the relevant sections of the Constitution.
The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Chief Ufot Ekaette, said yesterday that the Ministry had not done anything to undermine the execution of the 2009 budget.
LEADER of the People's Progressive Alliance (PPA) in Enugu State, Chief Okey Ezea, yesterday, challenged the recent statement by Governor Sullivan Chime, in which he claimed that opposition parties in the state have been silenced by his development programmes.
TWO Policemen were killed yesterday in Port Harcourt and two others sustained gun shot wounds during a fierce encounter between the Police and gunmen around Woji road area of the state capital.
Erstwhile chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Chief Olabode George was yesterday listed among other notable Nigerians who got Federal Government houses at the expense of deserving civil servants.
Former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, has prescribed the restoration of a robust federal system and the building of an economy that is modernised and industrialised as the ultimate solution to the crisis in the Niger Delta.
Abia State Government says it plans to generate N1 billion next year, as Internally Generated Revenue (IGR). The government, meanwhile said it had recorded an improvement in its internally generated revenue for last month, which it put at N250 million.
Preparatory to the 2010 gubernatorial election in Anambra State and the 2011 general elections in the country, the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), says there is no going back on its resolve to instill party discipline in its members.
Former militant leader, Joshua Maciver, and over two hundred other aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the chairman-ship positions in the original eight local government areas in Bayelsa State were, yesterday, screened for the April local government poll in the state.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday gave debtors of recently bailed-out banks two weeks to pay up or face another round of action.
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