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UPDATE: Patience Jonathan resigns as perm sec over rift with Dickson
Wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Dame Patience Jonathan, has resigned her appointment as Permanent Secretary in the Bayelsa State Civil Service. The 57-year-old Patience was said to have left the...
View ArticleB-R-E-A-K-I-N-G: Fire Guts Lagos International Airport
A fire outbreak at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, has been reported this afternoon. The fire engulfed the second floor of the airport. However, it was reportedly doused...
View ArticlePolice arrest customs officer over daughter’s death
A senior customs officer (name withheld) was yesterday arrested by the police in Meran area of Ijaye, Ojokoro, Lagos State, over his alleged involvement in the mysterious death of his 17-year-old...
View ArticleJonathan to leave for pilgrimage to Israel on Friday
The President, who will be accompanied by the Chaplain of the Presidential Villa, Venerable Obioma Onwuzurumba and his principal aides will, in addition to visiting Christian Holy sites, join other...
View ArticleSenate approves seven years imprisonment for ‘Yahoo Boyz’
The Senate on Thursday prescribed a penalty of seven years imprisonment was for cyber crimes and online fraud perpetrators in Nigeria as recommended. The decision of the Senate on cyber crimes bill was...
View ArticleBoko Haram finally frees abducted women, girls rumoured married off to...
By Umar Yusuf Yola—The Boko Haram insurgents, who reportedly abducted about 50 women and girls from two border villages between Adamawa and Borno states have freed the women among their captives. This...
View ArticleJonathan faults allegations of rights abuse against security agents
By Kingsley Omonobi ABUJA—President Goodluck Jonathan declared yesterday that the perceived human rights abuses by the military and other security agencies currently battling terrorism and other...
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Boko Haram: Conspiracy Over Bauchi Bombing – Former SGF, Yayale Fingered
The recent bombing of the popular motor park in Azare town in Bauchi State appears to open a new chapter to the Boko Haram bombing regime following a lull in the suicide bombing activities outside...
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Suspected Rogue Banker Forfeits Properties To FG
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, has secured an order of the Federal High Court, Kano for forfeiture of the properties of one Yagana Ibrahim Bukar a.k.a Aisha Shettima Noor. By the...
View ArticlePolice: No Link between Abducted Lady and Diezani
Ernest Chinwo in Port Harcourt The police in Port Harcourt have said they had not established a relationship between a lady who was kidnapped last Tuesday in Port Harcourt, Osio Agama, and the Minister...
View ArticleMilitary doubts Boko Haram ceasefire, expects deadlier attacks
BY UMAR YUSUF SELF-acclaimed Secretary General of Boko Haram, Mallam Danladi Ahmadu, has blamed armed robbers and hired assassins among other criminals, who he said had infiltrated the terrorist group...
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Boko Haram: Ihejirika threatens to sue Australian negotiator, demands $50b...
Former Chief of Army Staff, Lt- General Azubuike Ihejirika (rtd), has threatened to drag the Australian negotiator, Stephen Davis to court if he fails to retract his earlier statement alleging that he...
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My religion is a matter of me and my God and my politics are about my...
Former governor of Osun State, former national chairman of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, speaks with KATE...
View ArticleNegotiate or crush Boko Haram, Kwankwaso tells Jonathan
By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North Kano State Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, yesterday asked President Goodluck Jonathan to take urgent steps to arrest worsening spate of insecurity in the country...
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Boko Haram sponsorship: No secret trial for Ndume – Court
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, refused an application for the trial of Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume who is accused of sponsoring the Boko Haram sect, to be...
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2015: Jonathan’s re-election will set Nigeria ablaze again – Gumi
KADUNA – Well known Islamic Cleric, Sheik Dr. Ahmed Gumi has foretold of violence should President Goodluck Jonathan go on to contest and win the 2015 Presidential election. Gumi made this known in an...
View ArticlePolice quiz Fintiri over alleged contract scam
BY UMAR YUSUF The sacked Acting Governor of Adamawa State and Speaker of the of the state house of Assembly, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri has been quizzed by detectives from the Force headquarters of the...
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South Africa Finally Returns $15 Million Arms Deal seized To Nigeria
The South African Ambassador to Nigeria, Lulu Mnguni, said in a news conference on Friday that the $15m earlier seized from some Nigerians by the South African Government had been released to Nigeria....
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Meet the man who tamed Nigeria’s most lawless city
This intresting piece was culled from www.telegraph.co.uk, written by their Chief foreign correspondent, Colin Freeman, He famously claims to be “just doing his job”. But in a land where politicians...
View ArticleNigeria’s secret deal with Boko Haram reveals
Chad: Shekau appointed negotiators in writing Details of Nigeria’s peace deal with Boko Haram were revealed on Friday by the government of Chad which also sensationally disclosed that the sect’s...
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