Nasarawa State Governor, Tanko Al-Makura, and his counterpart in Benue, Gabriel Suswan, on Thursday briefed the Presidency on the precarious security situation in their states. While Al-Makura briefed Vice-President Namadi Sambo on the killing of over 20 policemen by members of a cult group in Alakyo Village, about 10 kilometres from Lafia, the state capital, […]
Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, on Wednesday challenged members of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party to electoral contest in 2015. The drama took place at a meeting between the Speaker of the House, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal, and the BoT members led by the Chairman, Chief Tony […]
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described the state of the nation as a war situation going by the incessant killings of innocent people by the Islamist sect, Boko Haram. Soyinka also decried the way and manner the Federal Government was handling the insurgency, saying it was looking at it as a short term phenomenon […]
Osaze Odemwingie’s future with West Bromwich Albion was decided during talks between the club and the PFA last week – with the striker set for a summer exit, irrespective of Saturday’s flare-up with Baggies supporters. It has also emerged that TV presenter Adrian Chiles has apologised for the comment he made about the striker at […]
Nigeria hopes to hold another General Elections in 2015. However, early signs are emerging that the forthcoming polls might be bloodier than previous ones. Clear two years ahead of the elections, political violence is already claiming lives and property. Last Thursday’s attack on members of the Accord Party in Olomi area of Oluyole Local Government […]
Federal Government on Tuesday arraigned four persons suspected to have masterminded the bomb attack on the United Nations headquarters in Abuja The suspects, Salisu Mohammed, Inusa Mukailu, Danzumi Haruna and Abdulsalami Adamu, were arraigned before an Abuja Federal High Court on four counts of terrorism. They were accused of conspiring with others at large, on […]
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State on Tuesday formally pledged his allegiance to the All Progressives Congress, urging the people of the state to join him. Okorocha made the declaration at a rally in Owerri as part of activities marking his two years in office. He said his joining APC was to ensure that his […]
THERE are indications that some members of the Rivers State House of Assembly perceived to be pro-Governor Rotimi Amaechi are being wooed by the camp of the Minister of State for Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike. Amaechi and Wike are the two dramatis personae in the current crisis tearing apart members of the Peoples Democratic Party […]
Suspected members of Islamist sect, Boko Haram, on Tuesday, attacked Bama, Borno State, leaving 55 people dead, the Joint Military Task Force said on Tuesday. The gunmen, according to Reuters, killed 22 police officers, 14 prison officials, two soldiers and four civilians, while 13 of the sect’s members died in the clash with the task […]
The Democratic Peoples Party has said it decided to join the All Progressives Congress to ‘correct the failures of the Peoples Democratic Party and strengthen the opposition.’ The acting Chairman of the DPP, Mr. Olisaemeka Akamukali, and Senator Pius Ewherido (Delta Central), said this in separate interviews with SUNDAY PUNCH during the party’s 2013 special […]
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