29 March 2013 Last updated at 08:09 ET Share this pageEmailPrint 543 ShareFacebookTwitter Letter from Africa: Chinua Achebe betrayed COMMENTS (6) Government critics say corruption is rampant in Nigeria Continue reading the main story Letter from Africa Faith restored Faking your fufu? Three-day week Dying to be armed In our series of letters from Africa, […]
The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, in this interview with newsmen in Abuja, argues that the peace and development of the rest of Nigeria are dependent on the development of the region. JOHN ALECHENU was there. Excerpts: There are agitations from the north that the Niger Delta is getting too much of […]
Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido, has said the Peoples Democratic Party will not embarrass its National Chairman, Dr. Bamanga Tukur. He said the problems in the party were not strange. Lamido said this in Abuja on Thursday while addressing journalists after the meeting of the committee set up by the governors to handle […]
Governor Idris Wada of Kogi State and his Anambra State counterpart, Peter Obi, have promised to collaborate to restore peace in the boundary communities of Odeke and Aguleri. The people of Odeke in Kogi and Aguleri in Anambra have been at war over the ownership of an oil well in the area. The governors, who […]
A bomb exploded in Kano metropolis on Thursday, throwing the area into pandemonium. Eyewitnesses said the bomb exploded on Zoo Road near a local pharmacy. A JTF source however said no casualty was recorded in the explosion. The source added that troops had already condoned off the area. Two weeks ago, no fewer than 80 […]
Northern leaders on Thursday said they were not supporting the violence being perpetrated by Islamist sect, Boko Haram. The leaders, who spoke under the auspices of pan northern socio-political organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum, said their call for amnesty to and dialogue for the sect members did not mean that they were sympathetic to their actions. […]
Indications emerged late on Wednesday that the summer flight schedule of the 24 foreign airlines operating into Nigeria might be approved before the end of this week. Our correspondent gathered that the Federal Government through the Ministry of Aviation had begun moves to fast-track the approval process following a story by The PUNCH on Wednesday […]
The labour crisis rocking Aerocontractors Airlines is far from over as the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has restricted the embattled carrier to operating only three out of its nine operational aircraft. Aero has about 14 aircraft in its fleet but only nine are currently in operation. Investigations by our correspondent revealed that rather operating all […]
A fresh crisis may soon rock the All Progressives Congress as a splinter group in the All Nigeria Peoples Party is seeking a halt to the merger and registration of the APC. The ANPP is one of the three main opposition parties spearheading the formation of APC to defeat the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in […]
Nigeria Football Federation president, Aminu Maigari, has directed the technical committee of the football body to resolve the disagreement between Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi and the national team captain, Joseph Yobo. Yobo, who criticised the coach on how he was left out of the squad in the World Cup qualifier against Kenya in Calabar […]
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