NOBEL Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has berated critics, who attributed the cause of late Chinua Achebe’s accident that eventually confined him to a wheel chair until he recently breathed his last, to the “spotless ram” he presented to him as a gift for his sixtieth birthday. Soyinka, in a release entitled “The Village Mourners Association,” […]
On May 29, some students from the Niger Delta held a rally in Abuja to mark President Goodluck Jonathan’s two years in office. The rally ended up in the picketing of Niger Delta Minister Elder Godsday Orubebe’s office because of his alleged refusal to see them. EMMANUEL AHANONU reports. IT was May 29, a day […]
The late Apostle Timothy Obadare would be buried in a gold-plated casket as a mark of honour for his contributions to Christendom. This was disclosed by his first son, Pastor Paul Obadare, during a press briefing organised by the family and his protégés in Lagos on the burial arrangement. Obadare said, “The coffin to be […]
Few days after the suspension of the Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, from the People’s Democratic Party, the party on Wednesday announced the suspension of the Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Aliyu Wamako, from the party The party said in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, that the suspension […]
The former Director-General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Prof. Dora Akunyili, on Tuesday named her inability to establish a Drug Mart as one of her greatest regrets. Akunyili, who shot into limelight for revolutionising the fight against fake drugs, also blamed fake and counterfeit drugs in the country on lack of […]
President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, has called on security agencies to arrest a former Head of State and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change in the 2011 general elections, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) saying he constitutes a security risk. The call, he said, followed comments by Buhari condemning […]
BY ABDULSALAM MUHAMMAD KANO—Director of Department of State Services, DSS, in Kano, Mr. Bassey Etang, has said the weapons of mass destruction discovered in a bunker at a Lebanese residence in Kano, Tuesday, belong to international terrorist organisation, Hezbollah. Etang spoke to newsmen in Kano, during a joint conference with the Commandant of the 3 […]
Major Hamza al-Mustapha said his conviction for the murder of the late Alhaja Kudirat Abiola was because he served in “a hated administration”. Al-Mustapha, a former Chief Security Officer to the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, also said other allegations of murder and attempted murder levelled against the administration were “spurious conjectures.” Al-Mustapha […]
By KINGSLEY OMONOBI …as suspected terrorist found dead Two weeks after troops were deployed to flush out terrorists from Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states following declaration of state of emergency in the three states, Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, in a video published, Tuesday, called on Islamists in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq to join the […]
By HENRY UMORU, SONI DANIEL & JIMITOTA ONOYUME Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) may have finally broken up after a segment believed to be loyal to President Goodluck Jonathan set up a parallel body to the one led by Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State. Amaechi emerged as the NGF chairman for the second tenure in […]
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