Sen Okonkwo urges Igbo to support Ohanaeze’s position on confab
As the national conference becomes a reality amidst high hopes, expectations and skepticisms, a front line Igbo nationalist campaigner for equality, equity and fair access to national resources and...
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Diezani Alison Madueke in 3.1billion Scandal
The last might not have been heard about the prolificacy of Mrs. Diezaini Alison Madueke, the embattled Minister of petroleum and the rot in Nigeria National petroleum Corporation over the...
View ArticleFuel Scarcity: IPMAN Wants Finance Ministry To Step Up Payment
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) on Wednesday urged the Federal Ministry of Finance to stop delaying payment to marketers of petroleum products. The association...
View ArticlePDP commends Jonathan on second Niger Bridge
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has praised President Goodluck Jonathan for his commitment towards the realization of the Second Niger Bridge. PDP in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary,...
View ArticleGroup claims responsibility for Enugu Govt House attack
By Tony Edike ENUGU—Leader of the pro-Biafra group, Biafra Zionist Movement, BZM, Barrister Benjamin Onwuka has claimed responsibility for last Saturday’s invasion of Enugu State Government House...
View ArticleAbsence Of Judge Stalls Hearing In Sanusi’s Suit Against FG
The absence of Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday stalled hearing in the suit filed by suspended CBN Governor, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. Sanusi had, through his...
View ArticleWe Won’t Attend Amaechi’s NGF Retreat – Jang’s Faction
Chibuzo Ukaibe Factional chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) and Plateau State governor, Jonah Jang, yesterday declined the invitation of the Governor Rotimi Amaechi-led NGF to attend...
View ArticleRespond to charges against you and stop misinforming the public – Abati tells...
We have noted with disappointment, the unrelenting attempt by the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi to falsely portray his recent suspension from office as an attempt by the...
View ArticleStop Insulting the President, PDP Tells Amaechi
The Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday said it would no longer condone the persistent and unwarranted insults and acts that undermine the person and office of the...
View ArticleAssault on Nigerian in South Africa: FG seeks legal action
BY: VICTORIA OJEME ABUJA – The Federal Government has demanded for appropriate administrative and legal action from the South African government against two of its officers from the Police Service in...
View ArticleAkwa Ibom elders to decide next gov, office holders
Elders and other stakeholders in the 10 federal constituencies of Akwa Ibom State are to discuss the sharing of the various key political offices among the three senatorial districts in 2015 to ensure...
View ArticleIYC to Bugaje: N-Delta oil belongs to N-Delta people
BY Samuel Oyadongha Yenagoa—The Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, worldwide, Wednesday, described as reckless, provocative and misleading, the claim by former National Secretary of the defunct Action Congress...
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Canadian on missing Malaysian Airlines plane lost grandfather to 1973 plane...
By: Peter Edwards Star Reporter There’s a sad sense of déjà vu for the family of Muktesh Mukherjee, a Canadian who was on board the Malaysian Airlines jet which disappeared on Saturday. They fear the...
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Zik, Ndi-Igbo and their Southern neighbours
By Ochereome Nnnana IN 1992, (then) Rev Father Matthew Hassan Kukah wrote an interesting book entitled: Religion, Politics and Power in Northern Nigeria. Though the focus was on the North, it ended up...
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Sanusi Lamido: My Enemy, My Friend, My Hero and My Whistle-blower
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the suspended and victimized Nigeria’s apex bank chief is already my man of the year for 2013- he has oscillated from my enemy to my friend, my whistle-blower and my hero. In...
View ArticleMissing $20bn: APC charges Nigerians to demand explanation from FG
Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged Nigerians to fulfil their duty to the country by asking questions about the missing $20 billion from the coffers of the Nigeria...
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I was once nylon bags seller: Lagos lawmaker
A member of the Lagos State House of Assembly and Chairman, Committee on Economic Planning and Budget of the House, Mudashiru Obasa, has disclosed how he had to survive selling nylon bags on the...
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Sierra Leone’s former president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah dies at 82
FREETOWN (AFP) – Sierra Leone’s former president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, widely credited with returning peace to the shattered west African nation after years of brutal civil war, died on Thursday aged...
View ArticleWarri community laments oil firms’ disregard for MoU
The people of Tekedor Kusimi community (Egwa 2 Oil Field) in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State, have called on the state government and relevant security agencies to quickly...
View Article2015: Majemite drums support for Jonathan
BY FESTUS AHON UGHELLI—POLITICAL Adviser to Delta State governor, (Delta Central), Chief Fred Majemite, has urged Nigerians to support the second term quest of President Goodluck Jonathan, applauding...
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