No fewer than five suspected armed robbers were on Saturday killed after a bloody shootout with the police in Akpabuyo Local Government Area of Cross River State. Several other suspects were said to have escaped with various degrees of injuries. An eyewitness, Nya Moses, a resident of Akpabuyo, said he counted at least five dead […]
Retired General Oladipo Diya Retired General Oladipo Diya was accused of planning a coup by the late head of state, Gen. Sani Abacha. In this interview with ADEOLA BALOGUN and TUNDE AJAJA, he talks about how he escaped death and opens up on the arrest of late Chief MKO Abiola, his death and other sundry […]
Vice-President Namadi Sambo Two years after the completion of a $470m (N76.bn) National Public Security Communications System Project in Abuja, most of the installed 1,000 cameras for the Closed-Circuit Television in the city have either been vandalised or stolen, investigation by Saturday PUNCH has revealed. Checks showed that the solar panels and batteries of the […]
Former Head of State, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), | credits: File copy A former Head of State, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) on Thursday, gave the Peoples Democratic a seven-day ultimatum to apologise to him or face legal action for linking him with Boko Haram. Buhari, in a statement, demanded that the party retracts its […]
The police on Friday arraigned two brothers, Oluwatosin Bakare, 36, and Ayinde Bakare, 56, both of Ijun Ajuwon, Ogun, in a Wuse Zone 2 Chief Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, for N46m fraud. The prosecutor, DSP Peter Amadi, told the court that on Aug. 28, 2013, Ibrahim Umar and Co, (Barristers and Solicitors) of the Supreme Court […]
By Oluwaseun Joseph | NNP | April 18. 2014 – Frankly speaking, it is quite heart-warming to see some influential Nigerians coming out of their gilded cage to demand accountability from the present government. It shows that we are now waking up to our civic rights by calling the government to task on the expenditure […]
By Dr. Jidoeofor Adibe | London, UK | April 18, 2014 – Politics is in the air and jostling for 2015 has simply begun in earnest. Anyone telling you otherwise is either living in another planet, trying to undercut the competition or simply being dishonest. We saw another evidence of this when Governor Babangida Aliyu […]
NFF president Aminu Maigari | credits: File copy The Nigeria Football Federation has denied planning the downfall of coach Stephen Keshi and the Super Eagles as the team prepare for the World Cup in Brazil. NFF president Aminu Maigari lashed out at some reports which said the football body was planning to replace Keshi with […]
The Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank has approved $150m to finance 19 university-based Centres of Excellence in Nigeria and six other countries in West and Central Africa. A statement issued by the bank on Thursday said Nigeria would get the highest share of $70m from the International Development Association funding. According to […]
President Mamnoon Hussain of Pakistan will begin a three-day working visit to Nigeria from Monday, April 21, the Pakistan Deputy High Commissioner, Ahmed Sirohey said in Abuja. The visit is the first of a Pakistan’s president to Nigeria in 32 years and Hussain is leading a 70-man delegation, Sirohey told reporters. According to […]
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