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Articles, Columnists, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists, Presidency
Monday, October 26th, 2015
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | October 26, 2015 – Two recent stories about former president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan are likely to have conflicting impacts on his supporters and also on the trajectory of his post-presidency life. The first story is a report that Tanzania is agog with excitement that former President Jonathan […]
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Enugu, Headlines, State News
Sunday, October 25th, 2015
By Francis Igata ENUGU—Scores of women from four local government areas in Enugu State,yesterday, called on the state government to quickly halt incessant attacks occasioned by Fulani herdsmen who molest, maim, rape and destroy their farmland and livestocks. The women from the Anglican Diocese of Enugu North comprising Enugu-North, Enugu-East, Udi and Ezeagu council areas, […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
