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DR. D.K OLUKOYA OF MFM: My life and passion for football
I grew up like every normal child and did participate in sporting activities,” stated Olukoya, who is a First Class Micro-Biology Graduate of the University of Lagos. “My father was a policeman and...
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Abuja Attempted jailbreak: UK cautions citizens in travel alert
Abuja- The UK Foreign Office has advised British citizens in Abuja to maintain “heightened vigilance’’ following the foiled jailbreak at the Abuja headquarters of the Department of State Services...
View ArticleInsurgency: FG to move Bauchi Prison away from Emir’s Palace
Worried by the Boko Haram incessant killings in the North-East-Nigeria, President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered the Ministry of Interior to relocate the Bauchi prison currently located near the Emir...
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Exposed: The helicopters that supply arms, food to B’Haram –Borno, Yobe elders
Political elders from Borno and Yobe states have alleged that helicopters drop arms and ammunition, food and medicine to areas well known to be strongholds of the members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect...
View ArticleAn eye for an eye will make Nigeria go blind – Atiku
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has welcomed the olive branch extended to him by former President Olusegun Obasanjo and urged Nigerians to imbibe the spirit of forgiveness in the interest of...
View ArticleWike’s aide insists he is still a serving minister
Mr Simeon Nwakaudu, Special Assistant, Media, to the supervising Minister of Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, said on Monday that minister had not resigned from his appointment. Nwakaudu stated this in a...
View ArticleDefecting lawmakers: APC to appeal Judgment – Gbajabiamila
The Minority Leader, House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, said they would appeal a Federal High Court judgment which restrained defecting PDP members in the House from changing the House’s...
View ArticleNational Confab: FG asks court to dismiss suit challenging legitimacy
The Federal Government Monday urged a Federal High Court in Abuja to dismiss a suit by rights activist, Tunji Abayomi, challenging President Goodluck Jonathan’s powers to convene the on-going National...
View ArticleNew security architecture to end Boko Haram, says Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan Monday maintained that the Federal Government is adopting new security architecture to end the Boko Haram insurgency, farmers/herdsmen crisis and other security challenges...
View ArticleCultural carnivals will foster unity among corps members – NYSC Coordinator
The batch A, 2014 National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has held a one-day cultural carnival meant to unite corps members who will be carrying out their one year mandatory service in Anambra State at the...
View ArticlePolice charge The Sun editor with sedition
The Abia State Police Command has sued the Associate Editor of the The Sun, Mr. Ebere Wabara, for sedition, defamation of character and intention to cause trouble. The police on Saturday evening...
View ArticleFashola writes Ghanaian Parliament over killing of Nigerian student
BY OLASUNKANMI AKONI LAGOS—GOVERNOR Babatunde Fashola of Lagos, yesterday, said he had e-mailed the Ghanaian Parliament, requesting it to investigate the recent killing of a Nigerian student in that...
View ArticleNon-selection of delegates based on ethnic nationalities may derail Confab —...
BY TONY EDIKE ENUGU — The Igbo Leaders of Thought, yesterday, declared that the 75 percent controversy and other ground rules that had bogged down the on-going national conference for two weeks after...
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NIS tragedy: Moro, others must refund applicants, Reps PPC Chairman insists
BY Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA—The Chairman of Public Petitions Committee in the House of Representatives, Mr. Uzo Azubuike, yesterday, insisted that the Minister of Interior, Abba Moro and authorities...
View ArticleMan Jailed 25yrs For Attempting To Kill Obama
An Idaho man who admitted trying to assassinate President Barack Obama by shooting at the White House received a 25-year prison sentence on Monday. Oscar Ortega-Hernandez, 23, appeared in federal court...
View ArticleMassive 8.2 earthquake off Chile coast sparks tsunami
(Reuters) – A major earthquake of magnitude 8.2 struck off the coast of Chile on Tuesday, triggering a tsunami that hit the northern part of the country, but the government said there was no serious...
View ArticleRight group berates LASG for disobeying court order on Lekki-Ikoyi bridge
BY INNOCENT ANABA Lagos—A civil rights group, Legal Defence and Assistance Project, LEDAP, yesterday, condemned the Lagos State Government for allegedly disobeying last week’s order of a Federal High...
View ArticleOjukwu would have joined APC –Okorocha
FROM GEORGE ONYEJIUWA, Owerri Governor Rochas Okorocha apparently in response to his bitter critics over his dumping of the All Progressive Grand Alliance(APGA) for the All Progressive Congress(APC),...
View ArticleFalana Asks CJN To Reinstate Suspended Rivers CJ
By George Agba A human rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN) has described as subversive of the rule of law and invitation to anarchy, the suspension of the Chief Judge of Rivers State, Justice Peter...
View Article37 defected lawmakers: We almost took judgment for April fool —APC
THE opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), on Tuesday, said it almost took the court judgment against the 37 federal lawmakers that defected to its fold from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for...
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