The Police Command in Taraba have confirmed that gunmen on Tuesday killed 10 people in Jibu village in Wukari Local Government Area of the state. The police spokesman, ASP Joseph Kwaji, told newsmen in Jalingo that the suspected assailants also burnt more than 20 houses. “Yes, I can confirm to you that at about 5 […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Asaba The Delta state Government has refuted claims by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) that the State paid the sum of N500 million naira ransom for the release of Mr. Ebikeme, son of elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, who was recently kidnapped and released last week. African Examiner, […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu Tension in Enugu over brutal murder of 17-year-old secondary sch boy by staff of Enugu govt. Agency. Serious tension has enveloped Enugu metropolis, following the alleged gruesome murder of a 17-year-old secondary school student, Ede Chidiebere, by the enforcement team of the Enugu State Waste Management Authority, ESWAMA. The brutal enforcement team […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Awka The Obi Anizoba led Anambra State Local Government Election petition Tribunal, Onitsha zone has nullified the election of Chief Victor Agulue of the All progressive Grand Alliance APGA, as the Chairman of Ogbaru council Area. With the judgment, Chief Agulue, is expected to immediately vacate his seat, as the executive chairman of […]
President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the re-deployment of five permanent secretaries. This is contained in a statement issued in Abuja by the Director of Communication in the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Dr Tope Ajakaiye. According to the statement, Mr Linus Awete, presently in the office of the Secretary […]
By Oyewale Oyelola The PDP governorship candidate for August 9 Osun State gubernatorial election, Senator Iyiola Omisore has disclosed that he is rescue mission. This was contained in statement signed by his Media Assistant, Diran Odeyemi. The statement reads in part: “my programme for the state is development and prosperity that will leave no one […]
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has approved the appointment of Mr. Ikechukwu Oguine as the Coordinator, Legal Services and Company Secretary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Mr. Oguine who has over 29 years of legal experience, hails from Anambra State. He was previously the General Counsel of Chevron Nigeria Limited and has been a […]
Ayo Balogun Rights group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has written to Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State demanding a reversal in the high school fees being paid at the Lagos State University (LASU). There have been series of protests against the increment in LASU which goes up to over N250,000. SERAP urged Fashola […]
Kayode Adelowokan, Lagos The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) has described the rebased Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the country, which showed that the Nigerian economy has overtaken South Africa’s as the biggest on the continent as a facade. The Federal Government while presenting the outcome of the preliminary estimates of the GDP, said that […]
Kayode Adelowokan As part of aid to fight insurgencies in Nigeria, the Federal Government has entered into partnership with the Pakistani government to fight terrorism in the country. Nigeria and Pakistan both face a common problem of insurgency and terrorism by Al-Qaeda and Boko Haram terrorist groups. Addressing journalists, the Pakistani Ambassador to Nigeria, Lieutenant-General, […]
Kayode Adelowokan Following the horrible killing of women, children and other residents of Yar-galadima village of Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara state, North West Nigeria, the state Governor, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, broke down in tears on sighting corpses. Recently, gunmen suspected to be cattle rustlers had gone on rampage killing about 222 members of […]
Mona Ogbeidi, Washington DC The Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) have pledged to shelve their political differences and work together to make the 2015 election violence free. Dr Doyin Okupe, Senior Special Assistant to the president on Public Affairs and the interim national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Alhaji Lai […]
The Federal Government has released the white paper on the report of the presidential committee on restructuring and rationalization of Federal Government parastatals, commissions and agencies, rejecting most of the recommendations as contained in the Steve Oronsaye report. In the document released by the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, […]
MEND’s Revelation: Edwin Clark’s Son Plans Own Kidnap …Released After N500 Million Ransom Paid The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has released a damning and fraudulent revelation that the son of Edwin Clark, Ebikeme planned and orchestrated his own kidnap to defraud the Delta State Government. MEND reveals that N500 million […]
…Company holds awareness training for block moulders To create maximum awareness on the competitive advantages of its new 42.5 cement grade, Dangote cement has embarked training of block makers from the South East on the proper use of the new cement and physical demonstration of sandcrete mixing with the 3x. The training came even as […]
The reprieve he recently obtained from the court against his prosecution notwithstanding, the former Governor of the Central Bank, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is now to contend with a new attempt to expose his alleged misdemeanour in office at a World Bank/IMF Meeting in the United States. Some Civil Society groups are already on their way […]
Nigeria’s Firstlady Mrs Paience Jonathan has denied reports that she plans to install at least 3 governors in the forthcoming elections in 2015. A statement signed by the First lady’s media assistant Mr Ayo Adewuyi said the reports was the figment of the imagination of the author. The statement reads: “We consider this a figment […]
Akintokunbo A Adejumo On Saturday 5th April 2014, at the Hilton London Metropole Hotel in London, the Association of Nigerian Academics in the UK (ANAUK) led by Councillor Adedamola Aminu, the acting Mayor of the London Borough of Lambeth and a lecturer himself, recognised the achievements of Mrs Oluremi Tinubu, OON, former First Lady of […]
…As Police Shot 2 Dead Ignatius Okpara, Enugu The university town of Nsukka, Enugu State, was on Saturday thrown into pandemonium as heavily armed bandits stormed a filling station where they carted away undisclosed amount of money, just as the police killed two of them during a gun dwell. Our correspondent, learnt that the dare- […]
Oyewale Oyelola “State police is not solution to policing problem in Nigeria. If there is any problem, we must address not that everyone will be doing try and error” These were the words of Presidential Candidate of Action Congress of Nigeria in 2011 presidential election, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu during exclusive interview with Channels TV monitored […]
