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With Biafra it is finished, says Gowon

Posted by admin Biafra, Headlines, Presidency, Yakubu Gowon (1966-75) Saturday, October 24th, 2015

Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, has dismissed threat of Nigeria’s unity as he also said that with Biafra it is finished and General Yakubu Gowon made this statement recently in reaction to the resent protests by some youths.He said that Nigerians have put behind them the bad memories of the 1967 civil war, […]

Rivers Governorship Poll : Jubilation in Rivers as Tribunal sacks Wike – PDP, Governor Wike to appeal judgment

Posted by admin Election 2015, Elections, General Politics, Headlines, State News, Top Stories Saturday, October 24th, 2015

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike will appeal the judgment of the Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal which ordered fresh governorship election on the basis of the card reader accreditation during the election. Addressing journalists after the judgment delivered by Justice Suleiman Ambrosa of the Rivers State […]

Mosque blasts: How are the militants able to carry out such attacks regularly?

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News Saturday, October 24th, 2015

Two bomb blasts ripped through mosques in northeast Nigeria on Friday, killing at least 55 people and injuring more than 100, as Boko Haram fighters briefly seized a town in neighbouring Cameroon. The attacks in Maiduguri, Yola and the Cameroonian town of Kerawa again underlined the persistent national and regional threat from the Islamist militants, […]

Ministerial Screening: How Amaechi survived

Posted by admin Latest Politics Saturday, October 24th, 2015

Abuja – The Federal Government has suspended issuance of licence to new vehicle assembly plants. Mr Aminu Jalal, the Director General of the National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC), disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Friday. Jalal said that the action was to enable the council to consolidate the country’s vehicle assembly […]

Ministerial Screening: How Amaechi survived

Posted by admin Headlines, Legislature, Rivers, Senate, State News Saturday, October 24th, 2015

By Henry Umoru PRIOR to Thursday, 22 October, the political atmosphere was tensed, intrigues, backstabbing, high wired politics were at play, making many become skeptical of the entire political system. It was like when the time comes, the building of the red chambers of the National Assembly would collapse; the Senate will not screen and […]

800,000 commit suicide from depression annually—DON

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, October 23rd, 2015

A professor of psychiatry, Joseph Adeyemi, has said that no fewer than 800,000 people commit suicide yearly due to depression, yet policies on mental challenges remain archaic. Professor Adeyemi, who spoke in Lagos at the presentation of the book Shadows in the Mirror: the Many Faces of Depression, written by Dr. Vivian Ikem, said the Mental […]

EFCC tenders evidence against Lamido, 2 sons

Posted by admin EFCC Politics, Headlines, Jigawa, State News Friday, October 23rd, 2015

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA—Determined to establish the money laundering charge it slammed against Sule Lamido, former Governor of Jigawa State and his two sons, Aminu and Mustapha, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, tendered before the Federal High Court in Abuja, details of bank accounts it said were used by the accused persons […]

Apkpabio: President Buhari is a dictator says PDP

Posted by admin Akwa Ibom, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Presidency, State News Friday, October 23rd, 2015

By Henry Umoru & Levinus Nwabughiogu ABUJA—The Presidency and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday engaged in war of words over President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption crusade following the grilling of former Akwa Ibom State Governor and Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The opposition party while describing […]

New intriguing bank robbery technology in Akure

Posted by admin Headlines, Ondo, State News Friday, October 23rd, 2015

By Dayo Johnson IT would have been disastrous if not for the ingenuity and dexterity of some crack detectives in the Ondo state police command. The detectives foiled a plan by some robbers who dug a tunnel into the premises of one of the old generation banks in Akure, the Ondo State capital with the intention […]

Six lessons we have learnt by Reuben Abati

Posted by admin Columnists, Headlines, Reuben Abati Friday, October 23rd, 2015

The democratic experience in Nigeria has definitely been a continuing learning curve, and the more lessons we learn at various active centres: people, platforms and processes, the richer our democracy, the stronger the society evolves to deliver a brighter future for the sovereign. The greatest residue of our democracy in the last 16 years (1999–2015), […]