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Presidency, Raw Politics
Saturday, January 1st, 2011

Convener of the Save Nigeria Group and senior pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly Pastor Tunde Bakare has said President Goodluck Jonathan failed Nigerians by not performing creditably well in the outgoing year (2010) President Jonathan had on Monday given his administration a pass mark, saying Nigerians could boast of progress in some sectors, unlike […]
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Latest Politics, Plateau, State News
Saturday, January 1st, 2011
62 bodies of victims of the Christmas Eve bomb blasts in six places in Jos, the Plateau State capital, have been given a mass burial at Dong village, close to the Wildlife Park in Jos North Local Government Council. Earlier, the Plateau State government had buried 42 bodies in the same place. LEADERSHIP WEEKEND gathered […]
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Headlines, Presidency
Saturday, January 1st, 2011
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has promised Nigerians significant improvements in security, power supply, national infrastructure, education, healthcare and employment generation in 2011. In his new-year message to the nation, President Jonathan pledged that his administration will work even harder in the coming months to ensure that ordinary Nigerians begin to feel the tangible benefits of […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police
Saturday, January 1st, 2011
Area ‘O’ Police Command, Olaniyan Street, Oke-Ira, Ogba, Lagos For many commercial motorcyclists, popularly known as okada riders, who operate in the Ogba area of Lagos, these are certainly not the best of times. The source of their woes are unknown policemen, who extort money from them daily by imposing sundry charges. The same people […]
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Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency)
Saturday, January 1st, 2011
The hope of three notorious drug traffickers to hold a lavish Christmas celebration was dashed penultimate Friday when the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency intercepted the traffickers at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. They were carrying 4.91kg of cocaine. NDLEA sources told CRIME DIGEST that the arrest was made possible as […]
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Headlines, Presidency
Saturday, January 1st, 2011
All the major hotels in the Federal Capital Territory have been booked by politicians ahead of the presidential primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party scheduled for January 13, 2011 in Abuja. The PDP candidate will emerge after the party’s primaries expected to hold at the Eagle Square. Our correspondent, who went round the city […]
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Presidency, Top Stories
Saturday, January 1st, 2011

The presidency reacted angrily to a foreign media report that President Goodluck Jonathan has blamed Friday’s bombing at the Mogadishu barracks on the Islamic Sect, Boko Haram saying he couldn’t have said so since security agencies have not pin pointed any group as investigations was still on going. It described the report as an outright […]
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Headlines, Presidency
Saturday, January 1st, 2011
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has promised Nigerians significant improvements in security, power supply, national infrastructure, education, healthcare and employment generation in 2011. A statement signed by Mr. Ima Niboro, Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity) said: “In his new-year message to the nation, President Jonathan pledged that his administration will work even harder […]
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Nigerian Police, Oyo, State News
Saturday, January 1st, 2011

SECURITY was yesterday beefed up in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, by men of the State Police Command for fear of reprisal attack by supporters of the murdered National Union of Road Transport Workers, Alhaji Lateef Salako (a.ka. Eleweomo). This came as the police authorities announced the arrest of two persons in connection with the […]
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Governors, Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), South-South
Saturday, January 1st, 2011

SOUTH-SOUTH governors and delegates have unanimously endorsed the Goodluck Jonathan /Namadi Sambo ticket ahead of the January 13, 2011 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential primary. And pleased with the endorsement, President Jonathan who said he was disposed to political debates with his opponents, promised the people of the South-South geopolitical zone that he would not disappoint […]