ABUJA- A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, granted leave to the State Security Service, SSS, to arraign six suspected members of the Boko Haram sect, today. The accused persons, Shuaibu Abdulkadir, Salisu Ahmed, Umar Baba-Gana, Mohammed Ali, Musa Adamu and Umar Ibrahim, will be docked over allegations bothering on acts of terrorism, felony […]
PORT HARCOURT – FIVE pupils of a primary school in Nonwa community, Eleme Local Government Area, Rivers State, met their untimely death, yesterday, when a Hilux van crushed them. The pupils were on a motorbike (Okada) that was conveying them to school when they were knocked down and crushed close to Gbam Junction. A source, […]
No fewer than 100 MASSOB members were yesterday beaten up and arrested at the entrance gate of Abakaliki Township Stadium during the Igbo Day celebration by the police in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State Four of them who were wounded during the police action were later rushed to an undisclosed private hospital in Abakaliki for medical attention. […]
The new Christian terror group in the North, Akhwat Akwop, which was apparently formed to checkmate the activities of the extremist Muslim Boko Haram sect has asked nationals of five Islamic countries suspected to be funding the Boko Haram to leave the country. Akhwat Akwop alleged that the Islamic republics of Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kogi State chapter has denied reports that the governorship candidate of the party for December 3 election, Captain Idris Wada is not a registered member of the party. Addressing journalists in Abuja yesterday, state chairman of the party, Hassan Salau debunked the report as unfounded. Salau disclosed that Wada was […]
It was a pay back time for a community leader in Umuihi in Ihitte/Uboma Local Government Area of Imo State as he was sentenced to seven years imprisonment, for stealing a dog, belonging to one of his friends. Stephen Ugwunali, who is the President General of Umuihi Town Union, was handed down seven-year jail term […]
Nigeria has been left ‘deeply disappointed’ after CAF poked the country in the eye by handing South Africa the rights to host the 2013 Africa Nations Cup tournament. On Tuesday, CAF’s Executive Committee decided to approve an arrangement between South Africa, host of the 2017 tournament, and Libya, where the North Africans would swap places […]
Barely seven months to the April 2012 governorship election, crisis has sparked off in the Cross River State chapter of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), as the state leader of the party, Dr. Lawrence Henshaw and other party chieftains have called for the dissolution of the State Executive Council of the party, alleging brazen corruption […]
A pro-democracy group, the Yoruba Ronu Leadership Forum, has taken a swipe at President Goodluck Jonathan on his recent statement on the critics of the incumbent administration in Nigeria, insisting that the statement was nothing but a gentle way in self-mocking. In a statement by the Secretary-General of the group, Mr. Akin Malaolu, the forum […]
October 1 is here again and it is another season of ‘celebration’ of Nigeria’s independence anniversary. There will be speeches, parades, exhibitions, religious services, dinners and all manner of pageantry. Unfortunately, it will be another vacuous celebration with the president, governors and other political as well as religious leaders issuing press statements appreciating God for […]
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