The State Security Service on Wednesday told an Abuja Federal High Court that Senator Aliyu Ndume asked a self-confessed spokesman of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, Ali Kodunga (a.ka Al-Zawahiri), to call and threaten the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice,Mohammed Adoke (SAN). Konduga has since been convicted on two counts of […]
Christian elders in the North have decried incessant clashes between Fulani herdsmen and farmers in some parts of the country and warned that it had the capacity to threaten the nation’s unity. The Northern States Christian Elders’ Forum (NOSCEF) specifically mentioned the clashes in Benue and Nasarawa states and urged authorities to be cautious of […]
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) evacuated 215 stranded Nigerians from the Republic of Gabon to Nigeria on Sunday night. The evacuation was necessitated when the Gabonese authorities issued an eviction notice to Nigerian fishermen living in Nende, Mouka and Kenza Islands to move away eventhough the majority of them had lived there for many […]
MOVES by the House of Representatives to amend certain provisions of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Act met stiff resistance from the present CBN governor, Mallam Lamido Sanusi; former governors of the apex bank, Mallam Adamu Ciroma and Mr Joseph Sanusi and other stakeholders, as they kicked against the exercise. This is coming just […]
AS part of measures to tackle emergencies in the country, the Federal Ministry of Health has concluded arrangement to establish six first-class trauma centres in the six geo-political zones in the country before the end of the year. The Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, who disclosed this on Monday at a workshop on Enhancing […]
Sheila Solarin, widow of the late human rights activist, educationist and social crusader, Dr Tai Solarin, died on Sunday, aged 88. At the Ikenne home of the Awolowos on Monday, the matriarch of the Awo family, Chief (Mrs) HID Awolowo, shared fond memories of the late Sheila, a foremost educationist and author. Abiodun Awolaja reports. […]
NIGERIA’S foreign service officials have become the laughing stocks of the diplomatic world in Europe and the Americas following the failure of the home government to remit their salaries and allowances to them as and when due. Investigations by the Nigerian Tribune revealed that in most parts of Europe and the Americas, Nigerian diplomats now […]
Posted: October 21, 2012 – 17:23 Posted by siteadmin caption: Bishop David Oyedepo By GEORGE ARBUTHNOTT A church run by a controversial multi-millionaire African preacher has been accused of ‘cynical exploitation’ after its British branch received £16.7 million in donations from followers who were told that God would give them riches in return. Followers are ferried […]
The Premium Times reports that Security forces in Maiduguri said they have made a huge haul in their campaign against the Boko Haram sect, arresting a top sect leader, Shuaibu Mohammed Bama, and linking him to “a serving senator’s house along Damboa Road, GRA Maiduguri.” According to the report, The Joint Task Force, JTF, in […]
caption: Sheila Solarin By SaharaReporters, New York Saharareporters has just learnt of the death of Sheila Mary Solarin (nee Tuer), the widow of Dr. Tai Solarin, one of once one of Nigeria’s foremost educators and agitators for social justice. With her late husband, she had founded the famous Mayflower School in Ikenne, Ogun State. A […]
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