South Africa should apologise today for the illegal deportation of 125 Nigerian passengers last Friday at the Oliver Thambo International Airport in Johannesburg or face tougher measures, officials said last night. Nigeria has given five conditions to be met by South Africa to end the impasse sparked by the incident. They are: •unconditional apology to […]
The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) met yesterday to decide on guidelines for the March 24 national convention, Assistant Editor GBADE OGUNWALE reports the intrigues and forces at work. The search for a new set of national executive to run the affairs of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the […]
By Ike Abonyi Further revelations emerged Wednesday from the interrogation room of the State Security Service (SSS) when the two principal suspects of the Boko Haram, Abu Qaqa, who was the spokesman of the group, and his recaptured colleague, Kabiru Sokoto, gave insights into why the group attacked Muslims, Churches and schools. The revelation […]
By Segun Awofadeji A Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Mr. Abbubakar Sadiq, three other policemen and a civilian were Thursday feared dead, while another Police Inspector was short on the leg by unknown gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram, during a night attack on a police station and two new generation banks in Ashaka-Bajoga, […]
Judicial corruption is a cliché, but that is, for sure, what has elicited deep concern over many years. This concern was certainly not shared by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo who, at the opening ceremony of all Nigeria Judges Conference in 2003, sanctified the nation’s judiciary like this: “The Judiciary in Nigeria is not corrupt or inefficient. […]
Nollywood actor Jim Iyke was badly hurt last Saturday the 4th of March 2012 at a location in Cameroon during a movie shoot, Nollywoodgossip is exclusively reporting. We learned that the incident happened when the handsome actor, who commands immense fan base in the African country, was besieged by female fans on the set of […]
The governors of the 19 northern states on Thursday in Kaduna said they have resolved to deal decisively with the problem of insecurity posed by the militant Islamic sect, the Boko Haram in the region. The governors, who met at the General Hassan Usman Katsina State House, Kaduna, amid very tight security provided […]
No fewer than 38 policemen and eight Federal Road Safety Corps officials are facing orderly room trial for defying acting Inspector-General’s directive for the dismantling of roadblocks across the country. Mr. Mohammed Abubakar on February 14 ordered that all intra-state checkpoints be removed, regretting that they were being used by many policemen to […]
After one week of diplomatic stand off, the South-African government, on Thursday, apologised to the Federal Government for deporting 125 Nigerians from the country on March 2. The Nigerian travellers were deported for allegedly presenting fake yellow fever vaccination cards. The Nigerian government, which disputed the claim and took reciprocal actions to show […]
BY ABDULSALAM MUHAMMAD KANO—Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, Thursday, urged the new Commandant of the 3 Motorised Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Kano, Brigadier- General Iliyasu Abba, to check the excesses of the Joint Military Task Force, JMTF, deployed to Kano in the wake of January 20 bombing of the city by the Boko […]
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