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• Yar’Adua: Loyalists’ plot against Jonathan exposed

  Created: Saturday, 27 February 2010 00:51 Author: ADESINA WAHAB, News Editor

  In spite of bringing in ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua into the country in not good a state of health, his loyalists are not relenting in their bid to scuttle Acting President Goodluck Jonathan’s efforts at being in control of the governm...

• Doctors in teaching hospitals begin warning strike

  Created: Saturday, 27 February 2010 00:18 Author: OLAIDE OYELUDE

  Doctors in the nation’s teaching hospitals will on Monday begin a two-day warning strike in protest against government’s alleged refusal to make budgetary allocation for residency training and the non-implementation of the Consolidated Med...

• Hoteliers warn Lagos over double taxation

  Created: Friday, 26 February 2010 23:39 Author: JOHNSON OKANLAWON

  The president of the Lagos Hoteliers Association, Mr. Tola Adenuga, has warned the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service to re-open hotels sealed off or face the wrath of the law.The state revenue service officials on Monday sealed off Infinity Hotel, Ik...

• Adenuga voted most outstanding business leader in 50 yrs

  Created: Friday, 26 February 2010 23:18 Author: Our Reporter

  The Globacom Chairman, Dr. Mike Adenuga Jr. (CON) has been voted Nigeria’s most outstanding business personality in the last 50 years. In an online poll conducted by one of Nigeria’s most respected newspapers, This Day, the Chairman of Afr...

• President Umaru Yar'Adua is back Home

  Created: Wednesday, 24 February 2010 10:15 Author: Our Source

  President Umaru Yar'Adua has returned home after three months' treatment in Saudi Arabia, officials say, but his condition is unknown.A plane landed from Jeddah at the presidential wing of Abuja airport in the middle of the night, where an ambulance was...

• Jonathan’s VP: North rejects OBJ’s choice

  Created: Wednesday, 24 February 2010 00:51 Author: ADESINA WAHAB, News Editor

  The move by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to have his candidate chosen as the vice president to Acting President Goodluck Jonathan, has met a brick wall, as powerful Northern leaders have kicked against the move.The grouse is that Obasanjo played a...

• $13m scam: Jonathan’s wife under fire

  Created: Wednesday, 24 February 2010 00:44 Author: UBONG UMOH, Assistant Editor

  The saying, “a gold fish has no hiding place,” is daily coming true in the life of the wife of the acting president, Dame Patience Jonathan, as the Federal Government and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) are now under pres...

• Bank drags Agagu to court over debt

  Created: Wednesday, 24 February 2010 00:32 Author: OLAIDE OYELUDE

  The management of Skye Bank Plc has dragged former Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Agagu, and a company, Brink Jones Company Limited, before an Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan over N10 million unpaid loan.Brink Jones Company is the first defenda...

• AC warns Akala: Don’t use state funds to pursue party case

  Created: Wednesday, 24 February 2010 00:13 Author: ADESINA WAHAB, News Editor

  The Oyo State chapter of the Action Congress (AC) has warned Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala against using public funds to pursue court cases involving him and the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) Central Working Committee (CWC) over the intra-party ...

• Jonathan to sack Akunyili, Lukman, Ruma, others

  Created: Saturday, 20 February 2010 18:34 Author: ADESINA WAHAB, News Editor

  Acting President Goodluck Jonathan will soon wield the big stick and give his ministers the boot, as a clean sweep of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) is imminent.Sources told News Star that despite the acclaimed boldness of people like the Informati...

• OAU workers trap VC inside elevator over salary package

  Created: Saturday, 20 February 2010 18:28 Author: HAMEED OYEGBADE, Osogbo

  The crisis rocking the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife in Osun State has deepened, as members of the academic and non-academic staff unions of the institution trapped the Vice Chancellor, Professor Michel Faborode, inside the elevator in the S...

• Egwu, Daniel disagree over teachers’ strike

  Created: Saturday, 20 February 2010 18:24 Author: DAUD OLATUNJI, Abeokuta

  The Minister of Education, Dr. Sam Egwu, has disagreed with the Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel over the claim that the lack of fund is the cause of the ongoing teachers’ strike in the state.Egwu, who spoke in Abeokuta during the 17th c...

• Second term: Alao-Akala jittery

  Created: Saturday, 20 February 2010 17:58 Author: ABIOLA OLAYIWOLA and LOLADE AKEJU

  •As Ladoja, Adeojo take over partyDespite boasting among his followers that he has set aside over N40 billion to prosecute his re-election come next year, there are strong indications that Oyo State Governor, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, is now jitte...

• Oyo approves N800m for water project

  Created: Wednesday, 17 February 2010 12:49 Author: OLAIDE OYELUDE

  Oyo State Government has approved about N800 million for the construction and expansion of Ogbomoso-Ikoyi Ile Water Scheme in Oriire Local Government Area of the state.The Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Alhaja Risikat Alabi, said thi...

• Your government lacks focus, AC tells Yuguda

  Created: Wednesday, 17 February 2010 12:46 Author: TIMOTHY DANKA, Bauchi

  The Action Congress (AC) Bauchi State chapter has described the Isa Yuguda-led Bauchi State Government as a government without people-oriented policies, programmes and focus.Speaking in Bauchi, the AC State Secretary, Malam Abdullahi Dauda Litul, said t...

• Tension rocks Edo House over leadership

  Created: Wednesday, 17 February 2010 12:29 Author: ISESELE EZEKIEL, Benin

  Speaking with News Star, Hon. Philips Shuaibu, an AC member representing Etsako West Constituency II, who debunked the alleged plot by the AC members to impeach the speaker, said the House would be guided by the constitution if the need for a change of ...

• 2011: Northern elders meet over presidential candidate

  Created: Wednesday, 17 February 2010 12:19 Author: AYODELE OJO, AYO BADA AND DAUD OLATUNJI

  •Atiku, Shekarau, Yayale in contentionAs events keep unfolding with chilling rapidity in the country, the northern establishment is up in arm against any party or interest group that would want to foist any presidential candidate on the nation in ...

• Assembly rejects Oyinlola’s request for aides’ allowances

  Created: Wednesday, 17 February 2010 12:06 Author: HAMEED OYEGBADE, Osogbo

  The desire of Executive Assistants to Osun State Governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, to be considered for furniture and severance allowances has been rejected by the Osun State House of Assembly, as the lawmakers have turned down the request by the go...

• Crisis rocks Ambrose Alli University

  Created: Wednesday, 17 February 2010 12:02 Author: ISESELE EZEKIEL, Benin

  Students of the Edo State-owned Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, took to the streets on Monday to protest the increment of school fees by the state government.According to the protesting students, who were in hundreds, the increase in school fees by alm...

• Five instructions Obasanjo gave Jonathan

  Created: Monday, 15 February 2010 18:42 Author: ADESINA WAHAB, News Editor

  Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, who late last week met secretly with former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abuja, was given five major assignments to pursue during his tenure by the ex-president.According to a source, top on the must-do list is...