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Latest Politics
Thursday, March 21st, 2013
The Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described the state pardon granted a former governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, by President Goodluck Jonathan, as an act of impunity and a symbol of corrupt mentality. Also,the Nigerian Bar Association on Wednesday described the pardon as a bad signal in the anti-corruption campaign. Alamieyeseigha, who was […]
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Headlines
Thursday, March 21st, 2013
Former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Thursday in Kano called for the granting of amnesty to Boko Haram militants, insisting that they are not ghosts as alleged by President Goodluck Jonathan. Tinubu, the National Leader of Action Congress of Nigeria, who was in Kano to commiserate with the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado […]
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Headlines, South-East
Thursday, March 21st, 2013
The pan-Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has said that it can no longer guarantee peace in the East in the face of the continued killing of the Igbo in some states in the North. The group said that stopping its youths from carrying out reprisal over the years, even in the face of extreme anger, […]
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American Politics, Headlines
Thursday, March 21st, 2013
The United States has instituted terrorism charges against Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Adam Harun for allegedly planning to bomb its diplomatic buildings in Nigeria in 2003. Among the six charges instituted against him by the US government was also conspiracy to bomb its military personnel in Afghanistanin between 2002 and 2003. Forty-three years old Harun is […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Headlines, Presidency
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
By Uche Igwe- A man who has no tincture of philosophy passes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from habitual beliefs of his own age or his nation, from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the cooperation or consent of his deliberate reason. To such a man, the […]
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Boko Haram, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Latest Politics
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
Christian Association of Nigeria on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to brand Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organisation CAN added that the attacks on Sabon-Gari, Kano, Gusau and the suspension of the only female Christian legislator in the Bauchi State House of Assembly for allegedly opposing the relocation of the headquarters of a local […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
Police authorities in Kano State and some security sources on Tuesday gave different figures as casualties of the Monday suicide bomb blasts at an inter-state commercial bus park in Sabon-Gari, Kano. While the security sources, who were among those taking a tally of the victims, said the death toll had risen from 30 to about […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
As the smoke cleared from the New Road Luxury Bus Motor Park, in Sabon Gari Kano, victims of the terror attack, who were lucky to be alive to tell their stories, on Tuesday recalled moments before the bomb went off. Most of the injured victims are currently receiving medical attention at the Murtala Mohammed Memorial […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
Multi-Billionaire businessman, Arthur Eze has dismissed the controversy trailing the presidential pardon granted former governor of Bayelsa state, Dipreye Alamieyeseigha and others saying it was God that directed president Jonathan to grant the pardon. Speaking with state House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Chief Eze said criticisms against the pardon was misplaced. “What Jonathan did […]
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Delta, Headlines, Niger Delta, State News
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
By Emma Amaize WARRI- EX-MILITANTS, in the early hours of Tuesday, bombed a crude oil pipeline, belonging to the Nigeria Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, located between Evwreni Edjekota and Ewu in Ughelli North Local Government Area. A source told Vanguard, “Those who carried out the explosion are the same group that exploded a gas pipeline […]