Mother Of Nigeria’s Finance Minister Freed At Last

Security sources has just confirmed to media that the kidnapped mother of Nigeria’s finance minister, Professor Kamene Okonjo has been freed by security forces in Delta state.

How gunmen kidnapped Finance Minister, Okonjo-Iweala’s mother

Armed kidnappers numbering about 10 were lurking around the palace of Professor Chukwuka Okonjo the ruler of Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State until Professor Kanene Okonjo, mother of the Minister for Finance and her maid came down to offer some drinks to workers at the gate before she was swiftly kidnapped.

The 82-year-old monarch’s wife was said to have been…

Mother of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Nigerian finance minister) kidnapped!

The mother of Nigeria’s Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (pictured) was kidnapped from her home.

Kamene Okonjo, an academic in Nigeria and the mother of Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was abducted from her home in Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State, a Finance Ministry statement said.

“At…

Nigeria’s Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s Mother Kidnapped!!

 

BREAKING NEWS: Nigeria’s Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s Mother Kidnapped

The mother of Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has today been kidnapped.

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2013 budget is prudent, reasonable, says finance minister

Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Thursday allayed fears about the workability of the ministry’s 2013 budget.

In a statement by her spokesman, Mr. Paul Nwabuikwu, the minister said the presentation of the national budget by President Goodluck Jonathan in October was the earliest in recent memory.

She also said criticisms of the ministry’s aspect of the budget were unwarranted.

The statement is titled, The Proposed Budget Of the Federal…

Columbus May Have Discovered Syphilis

The transmission of diseases from Old World to New may have been a two-way street.Christopher Columbus and his crew have long been villainized for, among other acts, bringing diseases to the New World that wiped out massive numbers of Native Americans. But the transmission of disease may have been a two-way street, suggests new research.

After analyzing 54 published studies of Old World skeletons, researchers concluded…

FG Fires NOA DG, Idi Faruk

The Federal Government yesterday in Abuja approved the appointment of Mr. Michael Omeri Agbo Omeri as the Director-General of the National Orientation Agency.

With this development the Federal Government may have sealed the fate of Mr. Idi Faruk who was said to have been in the position for long. A terse statement by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim said…

Internet: Africa In the Treshhold Of New Domain Names

The age of the Internet is here with us as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the regulator of the internet, opened the floodgate that would allow for hundreds to thousands of new domain names to be registered thereby empowering emerging economies from Africa to Asia and Latin America to have their own domain names.

At exactly a minute past midnight on Thursday,…

Ekwesili, World Bank VP For Africa To Resign Post

The Vice President for Africa Region at the World Bank, Ms Obiageli Ezekwesili, would be leaving that post in May this year, according to the World Bank President, Bob Zoellick, in a statement from the Washington DC headquarters of the organisation .

Although Ezekwesili had completed a 4-year tenure last year, and was already hoping to return to her family in Nigeria, she was asked to…

FG, Labour Negotiation Is Progressing – Fashola

Governor Raji Fashola of Lagos State has said the discussions between the federal government and Labour is progressing, while expressing optimism that the crisis over the increase in fuel price will be resolved soon.

Fashola who arrived the presidential lounge of the Lagos Airport on Friday was part of the presidential team that had a discussion with Labour and on how to resolve the ongoing fuel…