Friday, May 24th, 2013
A group which described itself as Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) has claimed responsibility for a twin suicide bomb attack on Thursday morning at the Nigeria/Niger border in which over 20 Nigerien soldiers were killed.
Friday, May 24th, 2013
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday at the final funeral ceremony of late Professor Chinua Achebe in Ogidi flayed critics of his last book, There was A Country, saying the book is a road map towards correcting the errors of the past.
Friday, May 24th, 2013
•Anti-Amaechi, PDP leaders in final push •Labour begins strike over Rivers crisis By Donald Ojogo (Abuja) and Daniel Abia (Port Harcourt) Barring the unforeseen, a new chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) will emerge today. And despite spirited attempts by President Goodluck Jonathan to...
Friday, May 24th, 2013
By Chinwendu Nnadozie, Snr Correspondent, Minna President Goodluck Jonathan is expected to officially flag off the construction of the multi-billion naira Zungeru Hydro electric dam project in Wushishi local government area, the fourth electric dam in Niger State. Though details of the visit is still sketchy,...
Friday, May 24th, 2013
By Chesa Chesa, State House, Abuja Vice President Namadi Sambo has assured Nigerians that Aso Rock will favourably consider the report of the committee chaired by Deputy Governor of Cross River State, Efiok Cobham, on the displaced persons of Bakassi, with a view to implementing relevant...
Friday, May 24th, 2013
By Emma Maduabuchi, Assistant Politics Editor, Sunday Newly elected President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Gary Igariwe, has said that the South East geo-political zone is not interested in endorsing President Goodluck Jonathan for another term. He said the zone is rather interested in producing the next...
Friday, May 24th, 2013
By Wisdom Patrick, Snr Correspondent, Lagos Detectives attached to the Special Fraud Unit (SFU) said they have arrested two land speculators who allegedly duped some senior military personnel and other innocent Nigerians of a about N8 million using imaginary landed property in Ofada, Ogun State, as...
Friday, May 24th, 2013
Aid organisation, ‘Doctors Without Borders’, on Thursday announced that it has suspended emergency health care in Borno State, the heart of an insurgency now under assault by government troops. The decision comes after five gunmen hijacked an aid vehicle on Saturday. A couple of weeks...
Friday, May 24th, 2013
By Tunde Opeseitan, Snr Reporter, Lagos Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) on Thursday disclosed that over N1 billion worth of its funds have been lost to judgments secured by litigants filing cases against banks in liquidation. NDIC also has over 1, 000 cases pending in courts...
Friday, May 24th, 2013
By Celestine Okafor, Assistant Politics Editors, Abuja It was a flow of deep emotions on Wednesday evening at the Senate Committee Hearing Room 107, when union executives of the retrenched former staff of the liquidated Nigeria Airways narrated the woes of distressed workers of the airline...
Friday, May 24th, 2013
By Stella Odueme-Omona, Snr Correspondent, Abuja Commandant, National Defence College (NDC), Rear Admiral Thomas J. Lokoson, on Wednesday in Abuja, described the twin problem of poverty and corruption as factors responsible for challenges of insecurity facing the Africa region. Lokoson, who spoke at the Round Table,...
Friday, May 24th, 2013
By Hassan John, Special Correspondent, Abuja Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned one Emmanuel Ayoola Oserin before Justice R.I. Ahiakwo of State High Court, Port Harcourt, on two-count charge bordering on fraudulent issuance of dud cheques. The accused, who is Managing Director, Topsham Nigeria...
Friday, May 24th, 2013
By Chibuzor Emejor, Correspondent, Abuja Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Akinwumi Adesina, has urged Nigerian universities to re-align their curriculum to be in tune with the emerging labour market and prepare students with practical, technical and business skills they need to set up agro-businesses. Adesina,...
Friday, May 24th, 2013
By Joe Nwankwo, Assistant Editor, Abuja Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Aloma Mariam Mukthar, on Thursday swore in Justice Ibrahim Bukar, as Acting Chief Judge (CJ) of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), with a charge on him to lead his fellow brother judges by example in...
Friday, May 24th, 2013
By Blessing Adewole, Special Correspondent, Abuja Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Zainab Maina, has expressed dissatisfaction over delay by some states to pass the Child Rights Act (CRA) into law despite all efforts by the ministry. Maina stated this on Thursday while addressing the...
