ormer Minister of Niger Delta Affairs and governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Delta State, Elder Godsday Orubebe, in this interview spoke on the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015, his governorship bid and other issues. Excerpts: What do you think informed President Goodluck Jonathan’s reluctance to seek re-election? […]
Lamido of Adamawa, Lamido Mustapha THE Ijaw National Congress has slammed the Lamido of Adamawa, Dr. Muhammadu Barkindo Mustapha, over his position on the demand for resource control by the South-South geo-political zone. Mustapha had during a plenary at the National Conference proposed a stringent condition for the demand for a 100 per cent resource […]
President Goodluck Jonathan President Goodluck Jonathan, who cancelled his planned trip to Ibadan, Oyo State, visited the scene of the explosion amidst tight security. Jonathan was initially billed to attend the centenary birthday service of the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Odulana Odugade. He arrived the scene at 12.20am with the President of the Senate, […]
Security men at the scene of explosion | credits: PUNCH Photos Security agencies have confirmed that 71 persons have so far lost their lives in the bomb explosion that occurred at a motor park in Nyanya, a satellite town of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Monday. Police spokesman, Frank Mba, disclosed this to […]
Abuja motor park blast | credits: ‘Lekan Adetayo Scores of people were killed and maimed as an early morning bomb explosion rocked a motor park in Nyanya area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on Monday. Nyanya is a satellite town bordering the FCT and Nasarawa State. The explosion reportedly occurred in a section of […]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo The moves by the Presidency and the Peoples Democratic to seek the support of former President Olusegun Obasanjo for President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 have reached a dead end. The PUNCH’s investigations in Abuja on Sunday showed that Jonathan and the PDP had been reaching out to Obasanjo since last December […]
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal The Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal, has said that the House will not be distracted in its resolve to probe the alleged N10bn chartered jets scandal levelled against the Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. It also noted that […]
A delegate to the National Conference and the Lamido of Adamawa, Alhaji Muhammadu Mustapha, has said that the North can survive economically without proceeds from petroleum resources. The controversial monarch noted that but for the laziness on the part of the people of the region, the proceeds from agricultural produce would have made the region […]
A former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, is not perturbed by reports that he and other prominent Nigerians have had their movements restricted by security agents. A close aide of the general, Mr. Rotimi Fashakin, said this in a telephone interview with our correspondent, in Abuja, on Thursday. He was reacting to a news […]
Barring any change in date, the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts will on April 28 commence public investigation into an alleged use of N10 billion for chartering of private jets by the Petroleum Resources Minister, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. The jet was allegedly chartered by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for the minister […]
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