Bomber dies as explosives go off in transit Jonathan carpets critics Pope decries attacks on Christians in the North Britain issues travel alert to citizens NIGERIA’S image at the best of times has always been far from the ideal. But with the orgy of violence unleashed on some parts of the country in the past […]
KADUNA State Police Commissioner, Mohammed Jinjiri Abubakar yesterday alleged that foreign nationals especially from three African countries were involved in the acts of terrorism currently ravaging parts of the north. The Commissioner told reporters in his office that citizens of Niger Republic, Chad and Cameroon were among those involved in the terror activities and warned […]
By Steve Dada, Chiemelie Ezeobi in Lagos and Dele Ogbodo in Abuja Six years after the Sosoliso plane crash in Port Harcourt, killing over 100 passengers, most of them children, facts emerged yesterday that power failure at the Port Harcourt Airport was responsible for the accident. Although the Federal Government is yet to make public […]
BY DAPO AKINREFON Without June 12, there won’t be May 29 — Ayo Adebanjo, former NADECO chieftain I agree with what the public opinion says, it is to get a Federal Government institution named after him and the consensus of opinion seems to be the National Stadium at Abuja or in Lagos. We would not […]
There was controversy on Tuesday over the alleged closure of the nation’s airspace for a Presidential jet carrying the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, to land in Lagos on Sunday. The closure was said to have prevented the pilot of the distressed Dana Air’s plane from making an emergency landing at the airport. […]
A Dana Airline passenger plane, carrying 147 passengers, has crashed into a residential suburb of Nigeria’s commercial capital of Lagos. The plane coming from Abuja, crashed into three buildings, one of them a newly built storey building. It burst into flames. The crash happened at about 3 p.m Nigerian time. There are no survivors as […]
LAGOS — History will be made tomorrow when President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan commissions the first locally made warship, NNS ANDONI, constructed by Nigerian Navy engineers. The commissioning ceremony will take place at the Nigerian Naval Dockyard, Victoria Island, Lagos. The 31m Nigerian Navy Seaward Defence Boat (SDB) was conceived as a research and development project […]
Prominent Ijaw leader and First Republic Minister of Information, Chief Edwin Clark, has called on the governors of the 19 northern states to identify the leaders of the Boko Haram sect for negotiation. Clark said it was the responsibility of the governors of the North to also identify the grievances of the members of the […]
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday morning paid tribute to the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, the late Chief MKO Abiola, and other heroes and martyrs of democracy for serving as catalysts for the emergence of civilian government in 1999. In a speech to the nation, Jonathan said they made huge sacrifices […]
President Goodluck Jonathan’s loyalists have begun moves to neutralise the plot by northern governors to stop the President’s alleged 2015 ambition. The Niger State Governor, Dr. Babangida Aliyu, had in an interview with journalists at the Northern Governors’ Forum’s meeting in Kaduna on May 17 vowed that the North would ensure that it got the […]
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