By Obinna Akukwe Whether President Goodluck Jonathan decides to victimize, sack or prosecute Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Nigeria’s sacked Central Bank Chief, the truth is that a $20 billion dollar theft has been exposed and the sheer size of the theft is treasonable, especially with 80 million people living below $10 dollars daily. $20 billion […]
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu Ahead of Monday’s groundbreaking for the Second Niger Bridge, the south east chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) on Saturday blasted president Goodluck Jonathan, for the non inclusion of the project in the 2014 Nigeria budget. The party regretted that such magnitude of project was not captured in the nation’s national budget, […]
Akintokunbo A Adejumo This article is not meant to hold brief or a rejoinder for Prof Wole Soyinka – I am most confident he, and others, can do this for himself more effectively than me; rather it is to seek to protect Nigerians from the insult and onslaught of the spectre of brazen and barefaced […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu About fifty unknown young men armed with cutlasses and other dangerous weapons on Saturday attack the Enugu government. The hoodlums stormed the Government House early this morning at about 4:30 am. However, vigilant security operatives attached to the Enugu seat of power foiled the attack. Though our correspondent gathered that some of […]
(Reuters) – A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew went missing over the South China Sea on Saturday, presumed crashed, as ships and planes from countries closest to its flight path scoured a large search area for any wreckage. Vietnamese state media, quoting a senior naval official, had reported that the Boeing […]
As part of the continuing enquiry into the torture of Ejigbo Market women, the Nigeria Police Force has obtained the pictures and descriptions of the three suspects declared wanted during the last press update. The three suspects are: Ranti Lukeman Akande, Akeem Shitu and Tiri. Ranti Lukeman Akande a.k.a Otempa uses the appellations: Comrade or […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu A total of 360 (three hundred and sixty) customers of first bank Nigerian Plc Friday won various prices in the banks Big Splash Promo of 4th Bi-Monthly Raffle Draw held in Enugu on Thursday match 6, 2014. A breakdown of the winning record, indicates that out of the 360, One hundred and […]
Ignatius Okpara in Aba The Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church, Nigeria has showered encomium on Abia state Governor, Theodore Ahamefula Orji, for granting a waiver on the Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) for the proposed Clifford University Aba owned by the church. Addressing newsmen in Aba Friday on activities heralding the centenary celebration of […]
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced that he and his cabinet will take a pay cut to help bring down the government’s wage bill. President Kenyatta said that he and his deputy William Ruto would take a 20% cut while other ministers would have their pay reduced by 10%. Foreign trips, he said, would be […]
(Reuters) – A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing lost contact with air traffic controllers early on Saturday, the airline said in a statement, the plane likely missing in Vietnamese airspace. Flight MH370, operating a Boeing B777-200 aircraft left Kuala Lumpur at 12.21 a.m. (11.21 a.m. ET […]
…Threaten Total Mass Protest Agabus Pwanagba, Jos Following the relocation of the Federal Road Safety Corp (FRSC) Academy from Jos to Enugu, some Plateau youths have staged a peaceful demonstration, threatening a total mass protest in the entire middle belt zone if the decision is not reversed. The Youths who were in their hundreds on […]
By Leonard Karshima Shilgba, Lagos Our Nigerian way of life is the way of plenty of rituals of religion and very little of deeds to match our religious professions. It is public conduct and confessions that are divorced from personal responsibility and rather attached to “faith”. It does not matter what the outcome of our […]
…Says Govt Delivers Prado Jeep, Pickup Truck To Her Ayo Balogun, Lagos The Lagos State Government has branded former Deputy Governor of the State, Mrs. Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele a liar for saying that all entitlements due to her were still being withheld by the government. The government said the allegations leveled against the government by the […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos In its efforts to transform the tourism sector and reduce youth restiveness, the Plateau State Government has earmarked the sum of N13, 863, 614, 800 billion for Sports and Tourism sectors in its 2014 budget. The State’s Commissioner of Finance, Davou Mang, disclosed this figure in Jos on Friday while giving the […]
Ignatius Okpara in Awka At least, seven secondary school students and passerby were feared dead on Thursday following a ghastly motor accident at the Umuokpu Junction along the old Onitsha-Enugu Expressway, in Awka, the Anambra State capital. African Examiner reports that the incident occurred when a Toyota Camry lost control and ran into about 30 […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu The pan Igbo- socio cultural organisation, Ohaneze Ndigbo, has demanded the payment of N2.4 trillion as reparation and restitution from the federal government over what it called “the killings, violations, atrocities and injustices against them in Nigeria since 1966.” Briefing newsmen on Thursday in Enugu, on behalf of Ohaneze, Minister of Aviation […]
It has come to the knowledge of Government that some disgruntled political opponents in the State are bent on deceiving the residents of Aba with fake photographs of bad roads in Aba with the aim of discrediting the Abia State Government. According to a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Charles […]
Kayode Adelowokan, Lagos Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has warned motorists and drivers against patronizing touts in order to obtain fake drivers’ licenses, number plates as it will start arresting those without new number plates from July 1. The Corps Secretary, Commander Kayode Fanola, disclosed this while addressing Journalists in Abuja on the need to […]
A joint team of officers from the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Nigerian Army, Nigerian Air Force and Civil Defence Corps on Thursday raided the hideout of notorious criminals in Sabon Tasha and Kawo areas of Kaduna state capital. The operation which lasted hours, led to the arrest of 50 suspected drug barons and […]
By Adewale Kupoluyi The Boko Haram menace has certainly become a national calamity that deserves a more serious attention, not only from the security agencies but every Nigerian and more importantly the royal fathers, who are at a vantage position to nip the problem in the bud. This call became more imperative in view of […]
