By May 29, 2014, President Goodluck Jonathan would be three years old in office, which means the administration has barely a year to go in this term. On assumption of office, President Jonathan unveiled his Transformation Agenda. The Agenda, a comprehensive layout of Mr President’s goals and targets will invariably be the basic parameter by…
Jonathan Summons Security Chiefs Over Nyanya Bombing
Following another bomb blast at Nyanya18 days after the Monday, April 14 explosion, President Goodluck Jonathan has summoned security chiefs to a special security meeting in Abuja. Reuben Abati, the president’s spokesperson, disclosed that the meeting “is on-going” in Abuja early this afternoon. The recent bomb blast took place on Thursday evening, leaving 17 persons…
National Confab extension to cost additional N2bn
As against the three-month period allotted for the on going National Conference, it has now been extended by six weeks. The conference will now end on July 31 instead of the earlier date of June 19. Before the extension, some delegates had advocated that the three-month period allotted was not enough. A new work plan…
Jonathan Sacks Gulak
President Goodluck Jonathan has terminated the appointment of his special adviser (Political), Ahmed. A. Gulak. Reuben Abati, senior special adviser to the president on media and publicity, made this known in a series of tweets he posted on his twitter handle. Abati said the president “thanks Gulak for his services to the present administration and…
Federal Government Invests N100bn in North East
President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, performed the ground-breaking of the N100bn expansion project for Ashaka Cement’s new 2.5million metric-tonne capacity cement production line in Gombe, North East Nigeria. The project, which will be completed within three years, will increase the company’s current production capacity of over one million metric tonnes to about four million metric tonnes…
Court Orders FG, SSS, Police To Pay Sanusi N50m
A federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the Federal Government, the Nigerian Police and the State Security Service, SSS, to release the passport of Lamido Sanusi, the suspended CBN Governor, and pay him N50m as exemplary damages for unlawfully seizing his passport and detaining him illegally. The presiding judge, Justice Ibrahim Buba, also ordered…