Augusta Douglas-Ayam The family of Senior Adviser to the President on Research, Documentation and Strategy, Mr. Oronto Douglas, has intensified negotiations with kidnappers of their sister, Augusta Douglas-Ayam. Sources close to the family told PUNCH Metro that Augusta’s husband, Mr. Azibayam Apaga, had pleaded with the kidnappers to reduce the N10m ransom placed on […]
First batch of pilgrims from Osun State arriving from Mecca, Saudi Arabia after the 2013 Hajj at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja Lagos … on Sunday. The first batch of 805 pilgrims that performed the 2013 Hajj in Saudi Arabia, arrived at the Muritala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, and the Ilorin Airport, aboard Med-View Airline […]
ICPC Chairman, Mr. Ekpo Nta Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has arrested fresh five suspects over visa scam. This fresh arrest has increased the number of suspects in its custody to 13. A statement by the ICPC spokesperson, Folu Olamiti, said the suspects were arrested over the weekend at different locations. […]
Eze Onyekpere | credits: File copy Project Nigeria is not working but the leaders and managers are in denial. They do not care and are in a great party mood while Nigeria burns. From the trajectory of developments in virtually all spheres of life, there is also little hope that it is about to […]
The Senate will on Tuesday resume after its sallah break to consider various contending national issues, including the current crisis rocking the aviation industry. The Senate had summoned the Minister of Aviation, Mrs. Stella Oduah, and heads of agencies under the ministry to appear before it in order to explain the real state of the […]
Members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect may have killed 19 people in Borno State on Sunday. AFP reported that the insurgents who were dressed in military uniforms and wielding AK 47 assault rifles killed the 19 motorists by blocking the highway near Logumani which is 19 kilometres from the nation’s border with Cameroun. It […]
Professor Dr. Emmanuel Omoh Esiemokhai | Abuja, Nigeria | October 21, 2013 – Long before Nigerian politics descended abysmally into the realm of name-calling, abuse, vituperative musings and irredentism, we had written two articles on the need for a National Conference. We followed these up by making clarifications of our definitions and backing our […]
By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | October 21, 2013 – Until recently when the Nobel Committee swiftly presented the 2009 award to President Barack Obama who had just occupied the Oval Office, promising to effect a change in the hawkish, hegemonic and aggressive nature of American foreign policy which the George Bush years exemplified, […]
Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah BEYOND the howls of outrage at the illegal purchase (with public funds) of bulletproof cars for Stella Oduah, the Minister of Aviation, Nigerians need to come to terms with the reality that the government has lost the war on corruption. The scandal partly explains why our airspace is […]
Goodness A police sergeant from Ibiaku community, Mkpat Enin Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Ita Ayamba, has allegedly brutalised and abandoned his eight-year-old daughter, Goodness Ayamba over her refusal to confess to witchcraft. Ita was said to have paraded the little girl along the village streets naked, declaring that Goodness was […]
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