Boko Haram: Abductors of Borno South senatorial aspirant demand N100m ransom
Abductors of renowned politician, Stephen Madu Marama, has demanded for N100,000,000 (one hundred mullion naira) ransom. Marama, a senatorial aspirant was kidnapped on his way to Maiduguri from his...
View ArticleI’m not anti-Jonathan…But — Nwabueze
BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE LEGAL icon and Chairman of The Patriots, Professor Ben Nwabueze (SAN), has dismissed as unfounded comments that he is opposed to President Goodluck Jonathan giving his stance on the...
View ArticleNNPC donates multimillion naira medical consumables to Nyanya explosion victims
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Thursday delivered medical consumables worth millions of naira to victims of Abuja bomb blast at Asokoro, Nyanya and National hospitals in Abuja....
View ArticleJonathan reschedules meeting with governors on security matters
Abuja – The expanded National Security Council meeting with all State governors summoned by President Goodluck Jonathan has been rescheduled for April 23. Gov. Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom and...
View ArticleTambuwal is a traitor, he’s plotting to become APC’s presidential candidate –...
Elder Statesman and former Senate president, Ameh Ebute, has accused the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal of betraying the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The...
View ArticleABDUCTED SCHOOLGIRLS: THE COSTLY MISTAKE I MADE — PRINCIPAL
THE Associated Press reported on Thursday how the principal of the Government Secondary School, Asabe Kwambura, mistakenly handed over 129 schoolgirls to Boko Haram gunmen, who posed as military men....
View ArticleSecurity meeting: Akpabio explains why Jonathan did not invite APC Governors
Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State has explained why governors from the opposition party, the APC were not part of the meeting between President Goodluck Jonathan, the service chiefs and...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Stop pursuing individual agenda, HID counsels Yoruba leaders
YEYE Oodua, Chief (Mrs) H. I. D. Awolowo, has charged the Yoruba elite to stop pursuing individual agenda which has been to the detriment of the larger interest of the race. Speaking as Mother of the...
View Article2 killed as bomb rocks PDP chieftain’s home
FROM CHRIS ANUCHA, PORT HARCOURT The residence of President- General of Egi Peoples Assembly (EPA), in Ogbogu in Ogba /Egbema /Nodoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, Chief Oris Onyiri, has been...
View ArticleJubilation As Court Declares Park And Pay Operations Illegal In Abuja
Kunle Olasanmi There was jubilation in Abuja yesterday shortly after a High Court in the FCT declared operations of park and pay services in the city illegal. Justice Peter Affen of the court, in a...
View ArticleTerrorism: Police on high alert nationwide
ABUJA — Following recent security breaches, bombings and abductions by the Boko Haram terrorist group in several parts of the country, the Police High Command, in Abuja, has ordered its formations...
View ArticleMalaysian Muslims protest against Obama visit
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – About 100 Malaysian Muslim activists protested Friday outside the US embassy against the coming visit by President Barack Obama, denouncing him as an enemy of Islam. The...
View ArticleNobody can change God’s plan for Nigeria —MASSOB
BY NWABUEZE OKONKWO ONITSHA — The Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has berated politicians who introduced the no- go area clause in the on-going National Conference...
View ArticleBulkachuwa Becomes 1st Female Appeal Court President
Adesuwa Tsan, Kunle Olasanmi Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa was yesterday sworn in as the first female president of the Court of Appeal by Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Mariam Aloma Mukhtar, who...
View ArticleOkon Uya, ex-NECON chairman dies
A former chairman of the National Electoral Commission of Nigeria, during the Babangida era, Professor Okon Uya, is dead. He was aged 72. Uya, a Professor of African-American History and one-time...
View ArticleAPC aids, abets terrorism — PDP
The PDP has accused the All Progressive Congress (APC) of aiding and abetting terrorism in the country through “omission and commission’’. This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Olisa Metuh, the...
View Article77 persons feared dead in herdsmen attack
By John Mkom, Jalingo The Red Cross yesterday said in Wukari, Taraba State that about 77 people lost their lives during the crises between some Fulani herdsmen and the indigenous people of the area few...
View ArticleHow hoodlums butchered man over farmland
By SIMON EBEGBULEM Beniny City Youths from Iviukha in Weppa Wanno community in Etsako East Local Government Council of Edo State are beating war drums following the death of one of their sons, Oseni...
View ArticleDon’t import war to the West – APC tells VP Sambo
The All Progressives Congress in the State of Osun has said it rejected the war intention of the Vice President, Namadi Sambo, who declared in Abuja Wednesday, that the July 21 and August 9 elections...
View ArticlePhotos: Kcee Receives 2013 Benz G-Wagon As Birthday Gift From Brother
Popular Nigerian musician, KCee, has gotten himself the most fascinating birthday gift of the year.Kcee is a year older today, 18th April and his brother, the CEO of Five Star Music, Emeka Okonkwo aka...
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