“Need for Revival of Igbo Culture” – Nkem Owoh
BY ABUCHI IFESINACHI, AWKA The Ace Nollywood multiple award winning Actor , Chief Nkem Owoh, popularly known as Osuofia has called on Ndi-Igbo both at home and in the diaspora to fight to sustain and...
View ArticleUPDATE: Heavy Gunfire, Explosions Heard In Maiduguri
Sources in Maiduguri indicates that the capital of Maiduguri may be under attack from the outskirts by the violent Jihadist group, the Boko Haram. According to available information, early morning...
View ArticleFG’s centenary N100 commemorative note wasteful – TUC
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has criticised the introduction of a new N100 note by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to commemorate Nigeria’s centenary. This was contained in a statement...
View ArticleBoko Haram Eyes Yola As Hong And Gombi Falls
The township of Hong and Gombi in Adamawa state were sacked and occupied by Boko Haram militants today as Nigerian troops protecting the townships fled due to superior firepower of the militants. In...
View ArticleWhy Obasanjo Met Tinubu, Atiku – Aide
Bayo Oladeji Former president Olusegun Obasanjo will continue to welcome politicians who want to see him irrespective of their political affiliations because he is an elder statesman. A very senior...
View ArticleBoko Haram: Nigerian-Born U.S Soldier Urges Jonathan To Temporarily Suspend...
A Nigerian-born U.S. Army Captain, Sunday Adebomi, on Sunday said that war against Boko Haram could be won if President Goodluck Jonathan set aside his gentility. Adebomi told the News Agency of...
View ArticleAl-Makura Denies Embezzling N43.7bn Sure-P Fund
By Ruth Choji Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State has denied allegations that he embezzled 43.7bn SURE-P fund meant for his state. In an exclusive interview with LEADERSHIP Sunday, he...
View ArticleUPDATE: 6,000 Boko Haram Fighters prepared to Die As Suicide Bombers
In a shocking revelation, an insider in Boko Haram has revealed what would make the government of Nigeria have sleepless nights, this person has said that; “Boko Haram has nearly 10,000 ideological...
View Article‘Boko Haram Is A Religious Problem’– Oritsejafor Explodes In New Interview
The National President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor shortly after celebrating his birthday on Monday by giving out cheques of N50,000 each to 30 disabled people...
View ArticleCDS Alex Badeh And The Fifth Columnists – By Joe Onwukeme
In a statement at a conference issued by the Chief Of Defence Staff (CDS) Air Marshal Alex Badeh on 8th October, 2014, described “Fifth Columnists” as moles in Nigerian Armed Forces responsible for the...
View ArticleStop Enugu’s N11 Billion Loan, Group Urges CBN
The Enugu Rescue Group, ERG, has called on the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to stop the N11 billion loan from commercial banks approved for the Enugu State Government by the State House of Assembly at...
View ArticleGOV Obiano Drags Wole Soyinka to Anambra State
BY ABUCHI IFESINACHI, AWKA History was made, November 14, 2014, as the literary icon and social activist per excellence, Professor Wole Soyinka, the Nobel laureate stepped foot on the sands of Anambra...
View ArticleHunters Retake Chibok From Boko Haram, Massacres 300 Boko Haram Members
Information reaching us from sources stationed in the troubled North Eastern region of Nigeria indicate that the famous town of Chibok has been liberated by the local combination of hunters and...
View ArticlePolling units: How Jega may rob South West permanently
RECENTLY Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos state decried the sudden non-appearance of the names of over one million voters in Lagos State from the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC’s...
View ArticleUPDATE: Waziri Tambuwal for president
By Ochereome Nnanna You must have noticed the newest political speculation in town. It must have been invented in the ongoing political transition period because I don’t seem to have noticed it before....
View ArticleThis illegality cannot stand, Ekiti Speaker condemned the action of seven PDP...
Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr Adewale Omirin, has condemned the action of seven PDP members of the state House of Assembly who convened Monday to approve the reconstitution of the local...
View ArticleOBJ is Nigeria’s problem —Bakare
PASTOR and founder of Latter Rain Assembly in Lagos, Pastor Tunde Bakare, on Sunday, said former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, would be told some home truth in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital....
View ArticleUPDATE: More bombings to scare Jonathan from 2015 —Intelligence report
THERE are indications that the recent declaration of President Goodluck Jonathan for the 2015 presidential election is likely to cause more bombing, so as to scare him from the race. Nigerian Tribune...
View ArticleBREAKING: Fresh bomb explosion rocks Azare and Bauchi
A bomb explosion has occurred in Azare Town of Bauchi State, North-Eastern Nigeria, the News Agency of Nigeria is reporting. The agency quotes the Bauchi State Police Commissioner, Lawal Shehu, as...
View ArticleWe’ve come to stay in Gwoza —Boko Haram
VOICE of Africa (VOA) Hausa report monitored in Kaduna, on Sunday, had it that the Boko Haram insurgents said they won’t leave Gwoza and they have decided not to completely destroy the town of Damboa,...
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