Watch: Chuka Umunna walks out of an interview over the mosque letter row

January 19, 2015 “You’re being ridiculous” Chuka Umunna, the usually super smooth shadow business secretary, was riled to breaking point on an interview with Sky News earlier today. He ended upwalking out live on air as the interview closed, following a heated debate as he was grilled on his view of Eric Pickles’ controversial letter

FG reduces petrol price to N87 per litre

January 19, 2015 THE Federal Government  last night announced a reduction in the price of premium motor spirit  (petrol)from N97 to N87 per litre. The reduction follows the crash in the price of crude oil in the international market. The Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke, made the announcement on the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA,

Murnaghan Interview with Chuka Umunna, Shadow Business Secretary

January 2015 DERMOT MURNAGHAN: Now the old saying is, isn’t it, that elections are always won in the centre ground.  That’s the view of many political commentators and by at least one former Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair and he warned last week that a lurch to the left by Ed Miliband could end in

Falling oil prices: Edo to cut costs

January 7, 2015 BENIN—Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has said that his government will cut costs and block leakages as part of measures to survive the expected drop in the revenue accruing to the state from the federation account as a result of the crash in the price of crude oil. Speaking at the

Jonathan squandered $55bn oil money—OBJ

January 6, 2014 ABEOKUTA—Irked by what he perceived as the frivolous expenditure of the Jonathan administration, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, once again took a swipe at President Goodluck Jonathan, accusing him among other things of squandering $25billion crude oil savings left behind by his administration. Obasanjo made the allegation while hosting the South-West women