The decision to release Boko Haram co-founder, Aliyu Tishau, was taken by all security agencies, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Air Chief Marshal Oluseyi Petirin, said yesterday. The CDS’ pronouncement ended the controversy trailing Tishau’s release even as the Police and Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) traded blames. Earlier in the week, the Presidency threatened […]
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has announced plans to bomb the Eagle Square, Abuja again on the nation’s 51st anniversary on Saturday. MEND issued the threat in a press statement released yesterday by its spokesman, Jomo Gbomo. The terse three-paragraph statement said Nigerians had nothing to celebrate after 51 years […]
In another three days, Saturday October 1 to be precise, celebration of the nation’s independence anniversary will reach a climax in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. Nigerians can expect, on that day, to listen to long boring speeches on the nation’s huge potentials and how the present government is set to fulfill the promise of […]
Ondo State Governor Olusegun Mimiko has reiterated the need for a forum, where stakeholders can discuss about the structure of the Nigerian federation. Delivering a paper, ‘People, Power, Good Governance and the Future of Democracy in Nigeria,’ at the public presentation of a book, Nigeria’s Golden Book, published by The Sun Publishing Limited, yesterday in […]
President Goodluck Jonathan has vowed to fix public institutions, adding that strengthening the frameworks was the solution to the long years of rot and corruption that had characterised the Nigerian state. He assured that his administration would begin the process of restructuring and building institutions that would create the enabling environment for the nation’s diversification […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), would today close its defence in the petition lodged by the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) before the Presidential Election Tribunal against the declaration of President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples democratic Party (PDP), as winner of the April 16 election. In the said petition, the petitioner was seeking […]
The Chief Of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant-General Onyeabor Azubuike Ihejirika, yesterday told journalists that it was no longer in doubt that the Boko Haram group was receiving training and possibly funding from external forces, if the kinds of weapons and communication gadgets so far captured from the group by the military were anything to go […]
Deputy spokesman of the sect, Abu Kaka, told journalists in a telephone interview that the committee was on its own. Kaka said that the Islamist sect still maintained its course of ensuring strict Islamic laws in the country and wage war against the people it called infidels. He said the alleged split in its fold […]
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Monday, urged the Presidential Election Tribunal sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja to dismiss the petitio n filed by the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) challenging the victory of President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and to uphold the result of the presidential […]
ACADEMIC activities were paralysed at various universities in the country on Monday, following the commencement of the one-week strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Our correspondents who monitored the situation observed that all the lecturers obeyed the union’s directive to stay away from classrooms or any official duty during the strike expected […]
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