Newcastle striker Shola Ameobi leads the list of Super Eagles players spotted in Nigeria on Monday as the camping resumes in Calabar for the final qualifying match against Ethiopia on Saturday. The PUNCH checks at the Metropolitan Transcorp Hotel in Calabar by 9.45pm on Monday confirmed that none of the foreign-based players had arrived in […]
Members of the Taraba State House of Assembly on Monday elected Mr. Josiah Kente as the new speaker. Kente, who represents Wukari 1 constituency, replaced Mr. Haruna Tsokwa, who died early this month. The House also received a list of new commissioners from the acting Governor, Alhaji Garba Umar. Goverrnor Danbaba Suntai, had on […]
MASSOB FOUR people were feared killed on Monday when members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra clashed with a joint team of security men in Onitsha, Anambra State. But while MASSOB claimed that the clash was an attack on its members because of the decision of the group […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Professor Viola Onwuliri Federal Government has demanded an unreserved apology from the Indian authorities over the death of a Nigerian, Obodo Uzoma Simeon, and discriminatory attacks on Nigerians in the Asian nation. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prof. Viola Onwuliri, disclosed this while answering questions from journalists at the pre-Commonwealth Head […]
President Goodluck Jonathan The fight against corruption has assumed a new dimension in Ghana as President John Mahama has sacked the Deputy Minister of Communications, Victoria Hammah, for allegedly making a statement that suggested that she could be corrupt. On Thursday, a taped conversation that Hammah had with someone, in which she allegedly said she […]
Wife of the Enugu State Governor, Clara Chime Mrs. CLARA Chime on Monday left the Government House in Enugu claiming she had been under pressure to remain as wife of the Enugu State Governor, Sullivan Chime. She said she would have walked away from the marriage during the period Chime was sick and was […]
By Akintokunbo A. Adejumo | Ibadan, Nigeria | Nov. 10, 2013 – When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” – Thomas Jefferson Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal […]
By Tochukwu Ezukanma, | Lagos, Nigeria | Nov. 10, 2013 – Two days before the Anambara gubernatorial election of January 2010, I was at the Onitsha market. In my discussion with a number of traders, I told them that Chris Ngige, the gubernatorial candidate for Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) or Chukwuma Soludo, the candidate […]
| credits: nigerianaviation.wordpress.com Over 50 passengers of Aero Contractors Airlines were left stranded at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja from Friday night till daybreak on Saturday. It was learnt that passengers of flight AJ132 belonging to Aero were meant to leave NAIA for Lagos on Friday, but the flight did not take off […]
The embattled Minister of Aviation, Ms Stella Oduah and President Goodluck Jonathan President Goodluck Jonathan and the House of Representatives may clash over the probe into the purchase of two bulletproof cars for the Minister of Aviation, Ms Stella Oduah, by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority. SUNDAY PUNCH learnt that Jonathan had no intention […]
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