THE self-acclaimed chief spokesman of the dreaded Boko Haram sect, Ali Sanda Umar Konduga, popularly known in media circles as Usman Al-Zawahiri, has been nabbed by the Department of State Security Service (SSS), just as he opened up on those backing the sect. Fielding questions from newsmen at the SSS headquarters in Abuja, on Monday, […]
The Supreme Court will this morning hear the appeal filed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) challenging the decision of the Court of Appeal which upheld the decision of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja which had earlier elongated the tenure of five governors. The apex court had invited the trio of Chief Richard Akinjide, […]
Embattled Governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva has challenged the national leadership of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, [PDP] to disclose the sins he committed which informed his exclusion from the governorship primary conducted by the party at the weekend. Addressing journalists in Lagos at the weekend, acting national chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Kawu Baraje […]
From JULIANA TAIWO-OBALONYE, Abuja Monday, November 21, 2011 • Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section The Presidency is worried over the silence of Northern leaders and elders on Boko Haram crisis. The government is not comfortable that they are not condemning the Islamist sect enough on the spate of attacks and the […]
Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Ethics and Values, Mrs Sarah Jubril, has become a recurring decimal in national politics. In this interview with REMI ADEFULU, the presidential aide laments the insecurity in the country, especially the activities of the Boko Haram sect which is peopled by northern youths. She opined that most worrisome […]
Monday, November 21, 2011 Ambrose Monye Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section A Nigerian former athlete, Ambrose Monye, 35, is in South Africa’s police custody over an alleged assassination of a South African woman, Chanelle Henning, Tuesday last week in Faerie Glen. Ambrose Monye, 35, who was recently acquitted of murder, is […]
SHOCK and disbelief rent the air in the North, following the news of the death of The Guardian Newspapers Publisher, Mr. Alex Ibru, who passed on yesterday. Among the many sympathisers were the former Governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and the Special Senior Assistant to […]
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday expressed shock over the passing on of Mr. Alexander Ibru. In a statement, the president said Ibru contributed immensely in shaping Nigeria’s media industry, setting the standard for the industry with the publication of high quality newspapers. “This man, whose life recorded a pattern of good works, has definitely gone too […]
THE Federal High Court, Abuja Division was yesterday told how six persons suspected to be members of the Islamic sect Boko Haram allegedly procured 200 detonators and 55 yards of blasting cables with which they executed acts of terrorism against innocent persons between March 3 and July 20, 2011. Giving evidence in the trial of […]
The Chairman and Publisher of the Guardian, Chief Alex Uruemu Ibru is dead. According to a statement by the paper, Ibru gave up the ghost at about 2.30pm today. He had been sick for a while and was aged 66. Ibru was born on March1, 1945, the youngest of the famous Ibru brothers who hailed […]
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