News at 5th May,2015
This solar-powered race car will be street-legal by July
With the goal of having their solar-powered race car on the streets of Sydney by July this year, a student team from Australia's University of New South Wales is hard at work.
As PDP Burns From Within, Gov Fayose Reiterates Call for NWC’s Sack, Threatens To Expose Evidence of Chairman Mu’azu’s Betrayal
Ekiti
State Governor Ayo Fayose is neither apologizing for, nor withdrawing
his call for the dissolution of the Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu-led National
Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying it
is in good faith and in the overall interest of the party.
Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose
In a press statement in Ado-Ekiti
today by Lere Olayinka, his Special Assistant on Public Communications
and New Media, Governor Fayose threatened to expose National Chairman
Mu’azu, whom he said betrayed the PDP to the opposition. Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose
Senator Begs GEJ To Forgive Nigeria's Ambassador To SA
A senator representing Bauchi central, Abdul Ningi,
has begged President Goodluck Jonathan to extend his mercy and forgive
the Foreign Affairs ministry’s permanent secretary who was sanctioned
for ordering the recall of Nigeria’s envoys to South Africa without
authorisation.
Mr. Sheni’s decision to recall the officials was in protest to the recent xenophobia in the South African country, this move was criticized by the South African Government headed by President Jacob Zuma.
Ningi also criticized Sheni for his actions but told the Senate to intervene and ask the President to tamper justice with mercy.
“I am aware that the president and Commander-in-Chief is responsible
for such a call and also aware that the permanent secretary has no power
whatsoever to recall an ambassador without a clear directive by the
government,” he said.
Mr. Sheni’s decision to recall the officials was in protest to the recent xenophobia in the South African country, this move was criticized by the South African Government headed by President Jacob Zuma.
Ningi also criticized Sheni for his actions but told the Senate to intervene and ask the President to tamper justice with mercy.
Ambassador Danjuma Nanpon Sheni, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Buhari: Nigerians Expectations Is Making Me Nervous
President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his
nervousness over the expectations of Nigerians from him, which he
described as “too high”. Buhari said this at a meeting with the APC
governors-elect at Defence House, Abuja, yesterday, Punch reports.
He also decried the poor state of the Nigerian economy which he opined has made it difficult for both the federal and state governments to meet their obligations to workers.
He also decried the poor state of the Nigerian economy which he opined has made it difficult for both the federal and state governments to meet their obligations to workers.
Soyinka About Insurgency And New Administration
The Nobel Prize laureate Professor Wole Soyinka
explained why he was optimistic about Muhammadu Buhari’s emergence as
Nigeria’s president-elect and what should be expected from Boko Haram.
The prominent Nigerian made his position known in the course of the lecture “Predicting Nigeria, Electoral Ironies” delivered in the United States, The Punch reports.
The dramatist insisted that Buhari could not perform worse than the past presidents because he would be guided by a sense of history.
Wole Soyinka
The prominent Nigerian made his position known in the course of the lecture “Predicting Nigeria, Electoral Ironies” delivered in the United States, The Punch reports.
The dramatist insisted that Buhari could not perform worse than the past presidents because he would be guided by a sense of history.
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