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Latest Politics
Saturday, October 4th, 2014
By Sam Eyoboka Following unrelenting personal attacks on the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, The Fellowship of Churches of Christ in Nigeria (TEKAN) with over 13 denominations under its umbrella and 25 million members, has released a statement questioning the motives and timing of those who have been most […]
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Headlines
Saturday, October 4th, 2014
BY BANJI OJEWALE The people of Kumasi in Ghana did not wait for too long for the much anticipated visit of Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi from Nigeria. Kumuyi-1In 1973, he had been used by God to set up a Bible Study Group that had radicalized Christianity in a country just crawling from an internecine civil […]
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Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Saturday, October 4th, 2014
By Luka Binniyat Around 10am penultimate Monday, armed men followed Governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero of Kaduna State in a convoy of vehicles. The wailing convoy snaked its way from Kaduna metropolis towards southern Kaduna. Yero and his entourage were on their way to Fadan Karshi, in Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State to pay a […]
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Anambra, Headlines, Imo, Legislature, Senate, State News
Saturday, October 4th, 2014
From Ignatius Okpara, Awka Senator Hope Uzodinma, representing Orlu senatorial district of Imo state, on Friday narrowly escaped mob action as he splashed dollars at the funeral of his younger sister, Professor Josephine Anagbogu in Anambra. It took the intervention of security operatives to disperse army of youths who almost mobbed the legislator, while he […]
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Ekiti, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, September 30th, 2014
Mr. Ayodele Fayose The Chief Judge of Ekiti State, Justice Ayodeji Daramola, has tabled before the National Judicial Council ahead of the council’s meeting scheduled for Thursday, a petition accusing the state’s Governor-elect, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, and the police of complicity in the attack on judges and court workers in the state last week. A […]
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Headlines, Plateau, State News
Tuesday, September 30th, 2014
by Olaleye Aluko Ad by Websteroids Aboy A man, suspected to have attempted stealing diesel from a compound, died on Monday morning after he was electrocuted by an electric barbed fence. PUNCH Metro learnt that the suspect, Mr. John Aboy, was killed on Dagin Farouk Road, Jos, Plateau State. The incident was […]
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Headlines
Monday, September 29th, 2014
WE are celebrating another independence day, the same ritual; razzmatazz and demonstrations. Speeches. Promises and promises, all of the same, so much motion but no movement. Fela calls it “perambulating and still remaining on the same spot”. We have seen it all, as it was in the beginning- 1960, so it is now, nothing has […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Monday, September 29th, 2014
Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has called on Rivers people to choose a credible person to succeed him on May 29, next year. Amaechi, at an inter-denominational church service to mark the 54th Independence Day Anniversary held at the St. Cyprians Anglican Church in Port Harcourt, said that the era of imposition of candidates on the […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Edo, Latest Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Monday, September 29th, 2014
By Simon Ebegbulem BENIN—THE All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State, yesterday, reacted to the boast by President Goodluck Jonathan that his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will recapture Edo State come 2015 and 2016, saying that it was a tall dream to think that “Chief Tom Ikimi, who recently joined the PDP will win Edo State for […]
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Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Monday, September 29th, 2014

By Luka Binniyat, Emman Ovuakporie, Levinus Nwabughiogu & Laide Akinboade KADUNA —President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, yesterday for the first time spoke on the controversial $9.3m cash allegedly smuggled into South Africa by two Nigerians and an Israeli using his private jet. The money which has been confiscated by a South African court was […]