Oil subsidy probe: Reps threaten oil firms’ CEOs over non-appearance

ABUJA – House of Representatives, Thursday, threatened Managing Directors and Chief Executive Officers of the major oil companies who failed to show up before the on-going investigative panel on fuel subsidy regime by the House.

The adhoc committee had declared that all CEOs should appear before the panel in person and not through any proxy henceforth.Managing Directors had failed to show up but

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Northern monarchs deny meeting over Al-Mustapha

ABUJA—NORTHERN emirs and chiefs, Thursday, explained that the meeting held in Kaduna was to discuss more pressing issues affecting the North, and not to take a position on the conviction of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer, CSO, to late Gen. Sani Abacha, by the Lagos High Court.

Emir of Kazaure, Dr. Najib Hussaini Adamu, described insinuations that they met because of Al-Mustapha as “crude, false and uncharitable.”

Confirming that they met in Kaduna, Adamu, in a statement issued yesterday in Abuja, explained that

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