In church: You do not own Nigeria, Jonathan tells Obasanjo
From JULIANA TAIWO-OBALONYE, Abuja President Goodluck Jonathan has again hit back at former President Olusegun Obasanjo, saying he and his like do not own Nigeria, reiterating that Nigeria does not...
View ArticleJonathan wooed to become first Biafran president
NAIJA NEWS SWEEP – President Goodluck Jonathan is being wooed by Biafrans to help actualise Biafra Republic and in turn become the first President of the new country. As the amalgamation of Northern...
View ArticleUnusual Xmas gift in Port Harcourt
FROM TONY JOHN, Port Harcourt Members of St. Matthew’s Anglican Church, Nkpogu, in Port Harcourt City Local Government Area of Rivers State, yesterday got an unusual Christmas gift, as Archbishop of...
View ArticleAmaechi urges Rivers people to sustain good governance
From TONY JOHN, Port Harcourt Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Amaechi, has called on people of the state to continue to stand by his administration against injustice and political interference from...
View ArticleRivers factional Speaker denies plot to impeach Amaechi
BY EGUFE YAFUGBORHI PORT HARCOURT—Factional Speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly, RVHA, Evans Bipi, has denied reports of plot by him to impeach the state governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi. Echoes of...
View ArticleNeither me nor my father ‘ll leave PDP — Akinjide
BY OLA AJAYI IBADAN — OLOYE Jumoke Akinjide, Minister of State, Federal Capital Territory has denied claims that she was planning to dump the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Oloye Akinjide, who also...
View ArticleN30bn 2014 irrigation projects: S/West short-changed •North -80% •SS/SE -18%...
AS the presidency is addressing claims of marginalisation in federal appointments by the South West, the zone may be facing a new form of discrimination, going by the proposed details in some...
View Article2013: JTF killed 82 sea pirates, nabbed 1,857 crude oil thieves in N-Delta...
By Samuel Oyadongha Yenagoa—The Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta, codenamed Operation Pulo Shield, said yesterday it killed 82 sea pirates and robbers, lost three of its operatives in active service...
View ArticleJonathan: The Shoeless President, 2015 And His Controversies
LEADERSHIP – President Goodluck Jonathan has cleverly kept mum whether or not he would seek re-election in 2015 while everybody (either for or against), is busy touting him. Of course, it gives him...
View Article10 legal giants to defend governors’ defection to APC
An epic legal battle will begin on January 27 between five All Progressives Congress (APC) governors and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over their constitutional right to defect from the party on...
View ArticleControversy trails death of APC chieftain aide’s wife in Lagos
By Evelyn Usman LAGOS — Controversy is currently trailing the death of wife of the Personal Assistant to a chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr Sanni Ajibola Yusuf. The woman’s lifeless...
View ArticleTRAGEDY: Blogger Sentenced To Death in Saudi Arabia
Raif Badawi, a blogger in Saudi Arabia who has been imprisoned for violating the nation’s anti-cybercrime law, was given the death penalty for apostasy by a higher court Wednesday, his wife told CNN....
View ArticleAnti-AIDS wonder drug discovered underway
Research led by scientists at the Gladstone Institutes, San Fransisco, United States has identified the precise chain of molecular events in the human body that drives the death of most of the immune...
View ArticleS/South leaders to OBJ: Stop intimidating Jonathan
FORMER president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, was, on Thursday, cautioned by South-South leaders, chiefs, elders and stakeholders to stop harassing, intimidating, stampeding or blackmailing President...
View ArticleJonathan’s Killer Squad: 1000 Watch List Plunges Presidency, Amaechi in fresh...
The allegation of 1000 people on President Goodluck Jonathan’s watch list and alleged training of killer squad as alleged by former president Olusegun Obasanjo in his recent open letter entitled...
View ArticleHIV/AIDS patients protest over alleged killer drug •Investigations on — Minister
LOOKING at her in the crowd of protesters at the ARV Clinic at the Adeoyo Maternity, Yemetu, Ibadan, Oyo State, it was obvious that the issue at stake was a matter of life and death. The protesters...
View ArticleOpen letter: Ribadu backs Obasanjo
Former Chairman of the Economic and Finacial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, declared yesterday that ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s recent open letter to President Goodluck Jonathan was...
View ArticleMan detained for two months for allegedly criticising Bayelsa governor on...
Tonye Okio was arrested October 26. A businessman, Tonye Okio, spent his Christmas and will start the New Year at a Bayelsa prison for allegedly criticizing the Bayelsa State governor, Seriake Dickson,...
View ArticleUCH doctors give management 4-day ultimatum over unpaid allowances
By OLA AJAYI, Ibadan HARD times await thousands of patients at the University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan as medical and dental consultants in the teaching hospital are set for industrial dispute...
View ArticleKwankwaso to Nigerians: kick out PDP in 2015
Governor Rabi’u Kwankwaso of Kano State yesterday asked Nigerians to work together to kick out the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) out of power in 2015. Nigerians, he said , are yearning for change in...
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