BAYELSA GOVT TASK AGIP ON POWER SUPPLY TO HOST COMMUNITIES
The Bayelsa State Government on Monday met with the management of the Nigerian Agip Oil Company in a bid to resolve a number of issues bordering on crude oil production output within the state and the...
View ArticleNEF to Jonathan: The North is angry
The Northern Elders Forum, NEF has called the attention of President Goodluck Jonathan to the new level of anger and frustration in the country, especially in the North over the inability of his...
View ArticlePresidency replies Soyinka
ABUJA- FOR lampooning President Goodluck Jonathan and the administration, the Presidency Tuesday took a swipe at Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, saying the government is the most liberal. In a...
View ArticleState of Jersey to return Abacha loot to Nigeria
The State of Jersey, the biggest territory in the Channels Island, is set to return £315 million Abacha loot to Nigeria. Mr Micheal Birt, the Ballif of Jersey stated this at a dinner in honour of Dr...
View ArticleReps postpone December 3 resumption by two weeks
The House of Representatives has extended its resumption by two weeks. The House was due to resume on Wednesday from its recess, which began on October 28. Clerk of the House of Representatives,...
View ArticleEkiti prison attack an inside job – Fayose
The Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has called on the Federal Government to overhaul the workforce of the Federal Prison, Ado-Ekiti, over the Monday attack by gunmen. The governor suspected...
View ArticleSergeant-at-Arms now in charge of security at NASS
By Emman Ovuakporie ABUJA —IN a bid to forestall what happened on November 20 when heavily armed policemen invaded the National Assembly, the Chief Sergeant-at-Arms yesterday deployed all his men to...
View ArticleFG explains why trial of the Nyanya bombing suspect was bungled
The federal government yesterday informed that the case of the alleged mastermind of the Nyanya bombing, Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche, was discontinued because the accused was not supposed to face prosecution...
View ArticleOver 220 confirmed dead after Boko Haram attack in Damaturu
The death toll occasioned by the attack on Damaturu, the Yobe State capital by Boko Haram insurgents on Monday has been put at over 220 by health workers and security sources in the state. According to...
View ArticleSheikh Dahiru Bauchi Reveals Those Behind Kano Bomb Blast
An Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Dahiru Usman Bauchi has accused politicians of perpetrating bombings in the north, also slamming the Federal Government for not living up to expectation in itS responsibility...
View ArticleBabangida confident Military can crush Boko Haram if well equipped
Former Military Head of state, General Ibrahim Babangida, has asserted that if provided with requisite resources, men of the Nigerian military have all it takes to defeat Boko Haram insurgents....
View ArticleKano blast: Jonathan wicked for not declaring national mourning in honour of...
A former Deputy Governor of Edo State, Rev. Peter Obadan has carpeted President Goodluck Jonathan over his refusal to honour the victims of the Kano bomb blast. The cleric said the president ought to...
View ArticleTerrorists: ‘Military Alone Cannot Overcome Them’
Air Chief Marshal Alex Sabunduh Badeh, the Chief of the Defence Staff, has come under severe attack lately and some Nigerians are calling for his head for his seeming inability to quell the Boko Haram...
View ArticleBREAKING: Boko Haram raids banks, burns buildings in Gombe
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen on Thursday stormed two towns in northeast Nigeria, raiding banks and burning government buildings as well as political party offices, residents told AFP. Report says scores...
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Inside Nigerian military’s renewed offensive against Boko Haram; terrorists...
An apparently better equipped Nigerian military has revved up its battle against the extremist Boko Haram sect, displacing the insurgents from key Adamawa and Borno towns they overran and seized in the...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Contrary to reports, South Africa still holding Nigeria’s seized...
Contrary to widespread reports in the Nigeria media the South African government has not returned the $15 million seized from arms dealers purportedly buying arms for the Nigerian military. PREMIUM...
View ArticleOctober 1 bombing: FG provides lawyer for Okah
The Federal Government is to provide a defence lawyer for the alleged mastermind of the 2010 Independence Day bombing in Abuja, Charles Okah, who is facing terrorism charges before a Federal High Court...
View ArticleNigerian military ‘defuses bomb’ planted in Jos school
The military Special Taskforce on Jos crisis, STF, said it defused an explosive planted at a secondary school, Trinity College in Jos, Plateau State, in the early hours of Thursday. The exercise was...
View ArticleDisabled Persons In Ondo State Blast Mimiko, Accuse State Government Of...
Persons with disabilities in Ondo State on Thursday turned an event marking the “2014 International Day For Persons With Disabilities” into a demonstration highlighting the government’s neglect of...
View Article“Boko Haram Are Sneaking Into Maiduguri” – Villagers
Boko Haram sect members are currently sneaking into Maiduguri, the Borno state capital in Northeastern Nigeria, Usman Buba, a villager visiting the city, has confirmed. Mr. Buba, who spoke exclusively...
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