57 Ships Expected T Arrive Lagos With Containers, Petroleum Products
Fifty seven ships laden with containers, foods, petroleum products and other commodities are to arrive Lagos ports from Dec. 4 to Dec. 20, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The Nigerian Ports...
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Jonathan administration revealed massive fraud, corruption – APC Chair
Text of the Press Briefing by the National Chairman of APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun at a THE NATIONAL CHAIRMAN OF THE ALL PROGRESSIVES’ CONGRESS (APC), CHIEF JOHN ODIGIE-OYEGUN THURSDAY, 4TH DECEMBER,...
View ArticleEx Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the UK, Dr. Kolade condemned President...
A former Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Dr. Christopher Kolade, on Thursday condemned President Goodluck Jonathan for not showing the right leadership in the manner he had been...
View ArticleAmaechi, APC should be held responsible for any post-election violence – Group
As a fallout of statements credited to Rivers State governor, Rotimi Ameachi to the effect that the country will be made ungovernable if President Goodluck Jonathan is re-elected in 2015, a group,...
View ArticleAliko Dangote named Forbes Africa’s Person of the Year 2014
Billionaire businessman, Aliko Dangote, was on Thursday named Forbes Africa’s Person of the Year, 2014. At the unveiling ceremony in Nairobi, Kenya, Aliko Dangote, who has played key roles in Nigeria’s...
View ArticlePDP Governors’ visit to Obasanjo unnecessary – Fayose
Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described the visit of five Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors to former President Olusegun Obasanjo as unwarranted, unnecessary and uncalled for. The...
View ArticleHow Nigeria, South Africa moved to swap Synagogue collapse victims’ bodies...
While Nigerians wait for closure on the $15 million arms money seized by South African prosecutors, authorities in the two countries appear to have agreed on an unholy barter to exchange bodies of...
View ArticleNigerians urge INEC to provide database to ease registration of voters
Some Nigerians in Lagos on Thursday urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to develop a database to ease the ongoing registration of voters. They told the News Agency of Nigeria...
View ArticlePoverty is responsible for the monetisation of politics -Shola Olowoye
A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP senatorial aspirant for the Osun East Senatorial District, Prince Adekunle Olushola Olowoye has identified the high level of poverty and unemployment in the country as...
View ArticleBoko Haram planning to bomb Apapa seaport, police warn
Western Ports Command of the Nigeria Police has raised the alarm over threat by the Boko Haram sect to bomb Lagos, with the nation’s seaport in Apapa as its likely target. Commissioner of Police in...
View ArticleWhat if the commander is a saboteur?
I was recently a guest on a radio talk show. I was to discuss the Nigerian government’s inability, thus far, to contain and defeat the Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East. At one point, the talk...
View ArticleJonathan appoints new Comptroller General of Prisons
A new Comptroller General of Prisons, Dr. Peter Ezenwa Ekpendu has been appointed by President Goodluck Jonathan. Until his new appointment, Ekpendu was Deputy Controller General (Administration). A...
View ArticleTroops clear Mubi of Boko Haram fighters, seek civilian cooperation
The Nigerian Troops have completed the operation to clear Mubi, Adamawa State of Boko Haram terrorists. The sect had mischievously renamed the town ‘Madina’ and operated in the town and the environs. A...
View ArticleLand allocated to Gbenga Daniel was a jungle – EFCC witness
The drama in the ongoing suit against the former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) continued yesterday at the resumed hearing of the...
View ArticleOH! Suleiman Abba: Twice as bad
Why the embarrassment in high places must stop By Jide Ajani ADC to the wife of a late dictator: That is the only nugget in the profile of the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Suleiman Abba. When on...
View ArticleFalling Oil Prices: Fashola Asks FG To Cut Pump Price
Lagos State governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola, yesterday, queried the federal government reluctance to cut the pump price of oil from N97 per litre in the countryin order to correspond with the drop in...
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Fayemi and Fayose shake hands in public
Governor Fayose of Ekiti State and his predecessor, Kayode Fayemi, on Saturday surprised many when they shake hands in public. The occasion was the 60th birthday of the Ooni of Ife which held at the...
View ArticleHow President Jonathan moves to stop impeachment plot reveals
The Presidency and the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party have adopted subtle ways to tackle the impeachment threats against President Goodluck Jonathan, SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt. This is coming...
View ArticleChristian group advocates abolition of death penalty
By Olayinka Latona THE Comunita d Sant’Egidio, Nigeria and the European has advocated the abolition of death penalty, lynching and extra-judicial killings in the country, arguing that capital...
View ArticleBoko Haram: Why the US is in Nigeria, by envoy
By Funmi Ajumobi To clear the bitterness against United States of America for not being able to help stop insurgency/ terrorism in Nigeria, Mrs Maria E. Brewer, Deputy Missioner, US. Embassy,Abuja,...
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