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 […]
A new prime minister has been appointed in Mali to succeed Oumar Tatam Ly, who has resigned from office – along with his entire government. Mr Ly was elected last year after a French-led military intervention ended an Islamist takeover. His successor is a former presidential hopeful, Moussa Mara, who had also served as minister […]
Search teams looking for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are investigating a number of sounds detected by ships in the southern Indian Ocean, authorities said Sunday, but it’s not yet clear if any of them are from the missing plane’s so-called black box. A British Royal Navy vessel is on its way to an area where […]
The Soun of Ogbomoso, Oba Jimoh Oladunni Oyewumi, Ajagungbade III, has heaped encomium on eminent businessman and former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, describing him as an uncommon politician. Oba Oyewumi made the remark on Friday when Kalu paid him a visit. Kalu, who was installed as the Aro of Ogbomoso by […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos The Minister of Water Resources, Mrs. Sarah Ochekpe said politics in the Northern part of the country is done on the basis of religion. Ochekpe disclosed this in Jos on Saturday at the opening ceremony of the first Conference of the King David Generation Movement, which had in attendance, Christian grassroot politicians, […]
Introduction A pall of darkness has suddenly descended on the judiciary in Nigeria. Its genesis is the brouhaha surrounding the appointment of a substantive Chief Judge for Rivers State. The institutions and persons charged by the Constitution with roles to play in the appointment of a Chief Judge are at daggers drawn. The National Judicial […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu Imo and Zamfara states emerged with highest cases of examination malpractice in the 2013 November/December Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) conducted by the National Examination Council (NECO). Registrar of NECO, Professor Promise Okpala, disclosed this Friday while releasing the 2013 NECO result in Minna, the Niger state capital. Professor Okpala, in a […]
Kayode Adelowokan, Osogbo The former Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has emerged the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the August 9 gubernatorial election in Osun State. Senator Omisore who emerged in a peaceful election conducted by the PDP official led by Alhaji Muhammed Adamu Aliero, with a total […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Umuahia Governor Theodore Orji of Abia state on Friday signed the 2014 budget of N115.3 billion into law. African Examiner reports that the governor, had on the 30th of December, 2013 presented a budget proposal of 149.6 billion naira to the state House of Assembly, which was later followed by its breakdown by […]
