From George Okoh in Makurdi Four suspected members of the Boko Haram sect were yesterday arrested at St.Theresa Catholic Church within the High Level Area of Makurdi, Benue State. According to eyewitness, the four suspects had attempted to gain entry into the church while the second Mass was in progress at 10 a.m. when they […]
DETROIT (AFP) – The Nigerian “underwear bomber” who tried to blow up a packed airliner on Christmas Day 2009 must spend the rest of his life behind bars, a US judge ruled Thursday. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 25, pleaded guilty in October to eight charges, including the attempted murder of 289 people on board Detroit-bound Northwest […]
Yenagoa/Abuja — Henry Seriake Dickson of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was yesterday declared winner of last Saturday’s governorship poll in Bayelsa State by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The Returning Officer, Prof. Joseph Ajienka, who announced the results on Sunday in Yenagoa, said Dickson polled 417,500 votes, to beat Dr Imoro Kubor of […]
Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music’s queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behaviour and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died. She was 48. Beverly Hills police Lieutenant Mark Rosen told KABC-TV that Ms. Houston died in her room on the fourth floor of […]
Justices of the Supreme Court in Nigera today ruled that five state governors have no legal mandate to remain in office beyond May 2011. A panel of the Nigerian apex court today ruled that the tenures of Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa, Murtala Nyako of Adamawa, Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko of Sokoto, Ibrahim Idris of Kogi and […]
Organised labour has called off the week-long protest over government’s removal of subsidy on fuel. Although their demands for a return to N65 was not met, with government pegging it N97 from the N141 it was raised to on January 1, labour said they decided to suspend the strike after ‘wide consultations’ Details Shortly…… […]
The ice has finally been broken between labour unions and the Federal Government over the removal of fuel subsidy with a meeting scheduled for this evening, THISDAY can report. Ahead of the tripartriate negotiation in Abuja involving the Executive, National Assembly leadership and the unions, the Jonathan Administration is considering a mechanism aimed at subsidising […]
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a state of emergency in parts of the country following attacks from the Islamist group Boko Haram. The measure is in force is areas of the Yobe and Borno states in the north-east, Plateau state in central Nigeria and Niger state in the west. International borders in the affected […]
Ojukwu, who was the National Leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, died on Saturday morning at the Hospital between 1am and 2am local time. Prior to that trip, he was on admission at the Intensive Care Unit of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu following a cerebra-vascular accident otherwise called stroke. There had been rumours […]
Governor Owelle Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has charged traditional rulers in the state to steer clear of politics and warned that no monarch should belong to any political party. Okorocha, who gave the warning yesterday in Owerri during the swearing-in of 14 newly appointed commissioners, 13 special advisers, chairman of the state Council of […]
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