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The House of Representatives on Thursday asked the Federal Government to remove from office the Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ms Arunma Oteh. The lawmakers said this in their adoption of report of the House ad hoc committee which probed the near-collapse of the capital market. The report was debated and adopted on Thursday, barely 24 hours after ...

By Premium Times The face-off between the House of Representatives and President Goodluck Jonathan continued, Thursday, as some lawmakers served Mr. Jonathan a shocking impeachment warning, threatening to remove him from office if the 2012 budget was not fully implemented by September. The impeachment warning by the Lawmakers followed a motion by Femi Gbajabiamila, the Minority Leader. Citing an order ...

At least three persons have been killed in Kano when unknown gunmen riding on a motorbike opened fire around public square known as ‘Kwanan Freedom radio’ in Sharada area of Kano city into a group of card players. A fourth person sustained serious injuries and has been rushed to the hospital. This is coming just a few hours to the ...

From: SaharaReporters The insatiable greed of former President Olusegun Obasanjo was exposed on Thursday as a commission set up by the Ogun State government revealed that he was fraudulently allocated 2,250 hectares of land by the immediate past Governor of the state, Mr. Gbenga Daniel. That allocation will now be cancelled. Obasanjo, who already owns thousands of hectares of land ...

It has been said that twins share almost everything but sharing a husband may seem unimaginable. But Zambia’s Livingstone-based twin sisters Gracious and Grace are happily married to a man they gave conditions to, they said “take all or none.” The Tswana, Botswana twins are married to 25-year-old Kays Kaundula, who lives in Livingstone Island in Zambia. Kaundula, his wives ...