A riot policeman attached to a branch of Zenith Bank at Mpape, a suburb of Abuja, on Monday allegedly shot and killed a taxi driver and a female passenger. Three other passengers in the taxi marked Niger XA 783 SRP were said to have sustained serious injuries and were taken to an undisclosed hospital. […]
The presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Monday picked the Convener of the Save Nigeria Group, Pastor Tunde Bakare, as his running mate in the April election. Buhari, through his spokesperson, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, said the choice of Bakare was based on the need, “to put the […]
The Peoples Democratic Party may not field candidates in Oyo and Anambra states during the April general elections as the Independent National Electoral Commission on Monday rejected the lists of candidates from the states. Investigations by our correspondents showed that the commission rejected the list from Oyo because the state chapter of the PDP […]
AS campaign by various political candidates begun towards the April general polls, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, said he would ensure crime, violence free electioneering campaign period in Lagos through a holistic approach. The governor stated this while handing over 100 security operational vehicles and 50 patrol motorcycles equipped with various security gadgets […]
The burial ceremony of late Super Eagles defender, Uche Okafor is scheduled to now hold February 17 at Umuabali, Ubomiri in Mbaitoli LGA of Imo State. According to the spokesman of the family, Ugo Nwokoro, the new date was agreed to by members of the Okafor family. In the meantime, friends of the murdered football […]
President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, said he has no ambition to stay in office beyond 2015, assuring Nigerians in Diaspora that while he will not contest the 2015 election, he will ensure that this year’s election is free and fair. The President promised that if voted in for the next four years, he would ensure significant […]
FOLLOWING what was described as an in-house fence mending, most of the aspirants to elective positions who failed to make it during the recent primaries of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Anambra State, yesterday, decided to support those who won the party’s tickets in the interest of peace and harmony within the party. At […]
Minister for Information and Communications, Mr. Labran Maku, yesterday, vowed to bring the perpetrators of Plateau, Bauchi and Borno states’ killings to book. Maku, who stated this while answering questions from newsmen, condemned incessant killing of politicians in recent times in the country. It would be recalled that Borno State All Nigerian Peoples Party, ANPP, […]
THE Presidency yesterday declared that President Goodluck Jonathan was uncomfortable toeing the line of a state of emergency in both Plateau and Borno states where street organised crime had continued unabated in the recent past. A Presidency source said despite repeated calls for a state of emergency to be declared in Plateau and Borno states, […]
The on-going trial of an Iranian, Azim Aghajani, who was accused of berthing 13 containers laden with assorted explosives at the Apapa Sea Port on October 25, 2010, yesterday, took a new dimension, as the State Security Services, SSS, not only terminated the criminal proceedings earlier initiated against him and three others before an Abuja […]
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