A former minister in the government of Muammar Gaddafi has been sentenced to death for his role in repressing protests in the 2011 rebellion. A court in the Libyan city of Misrata found Ahmed Ibrahim guilty of undermining national security and plotting to kill civilians. A judge said Ibrahim urged residents in the town of […]
Halfway into the tenure of the Senate, 34 senators have not sponsored any bill since coming to office, according to official records released by the Senate. The Senate’s Mid-Term Assessment Report shows that of the total 109 senators, 74 have sponsored at least a bill during the period starting June 2011 while the rest initiated […]
BY DAPO AKINREFON THE crisis rocking the Oodua Peoples’ Congress, OPC, deepened over the the weekend as founder of the group, Dr Frederick Fasehun and National Coordinator of the group, Otunba Gani Adams bickered over Fasehun’s recent hobnobbing with Major Hamza Al-Mustapha. Fasehun’s faction had accused Adams of being sponsored to criticize him for accompanying […]
BY EVELYN USMAN LAGOS — Policemen at Bode Thomas division of Lagos State command, Tuesday, arrested a woman who allegedly set her 11-year-old house maid ablaze in Surulere area of Lagos, for stealing a piece of meat from her pot of soup. The maid identified as Ita Bassey-Eno who reportedly escaped death by the whiskers, […]
By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North; Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor, Henry Umoru & Tina Akannam ABUJA — NATIONAL Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, yesterday took a swipe at five governors from the North elected on the platform of the party, warning them to show decorum, humility and respect him. One […]
Nigeria’s electoral agency on Wednesday approved the merger of three leading opposition parties ahead of presidential polls in 2015, potentially setting up a stiff challenge to the ruling party. The electoral commission said the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) would now be known as […]
BY SONI DANIEL, REGIONAL EDITOR, NORTH Four Northern governors, who are still aggrieved over certain developments in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Tuesday, took their grievances to former President Shehu Shagari, pleading with him to intervene. The governors, who began their meeting with Shagari at about 11:45 am, were led by the state governor, Aliyu […]
The Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta code-named ‘Operation Pulo Shield’, said it has arrested 608 suspected oil thieves in 594 raids carried out between January and June. The JTF spokesman, Lt. Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, told the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Yenagoa that oil theft was consequently on the decline. “So far, […]
By PROVIDENCE OBUH The number of Chinese citizens regularised and legally residing in Lagos and Ogun zone of the Nigeria Immigration service is about 17,000 according to Comptroller General of Immigration Service, Mr. David Parradang. However the greatest challenge faced by the service comes from Chinese citizens who come into the country with visiting, tourist […]
From JOE EFFIONG, Uyo Uncertainty reigned yesterday in Akwa Ibom State as Governor Godswill Akpabio visited the home of the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Mr. Umana Okon Umana’s office. As at the time of filing this report, Akpabio was in Umana’s private residence in Ewet Housing Estate, thus heightening the speculation that Umana […]
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