Residents of Ogida quarters, Benin woke up Friday to find 10 corpses in the area believed to be victims of the latest round of clashes between members of the Eiye Confraternity and the Black Axe. A similar clash on Eweka Street, Thursday afternoon, had claimed two lives. Saturday Vanguard gathered that one of the cult […]
TEN days after they were kidnapped, the wife and one-year-old child of Nollywood star actor, John Okafor, popularly known as Mr. Ibu, have been released. Okafor, who addressed a press conference in Enugu yesterday, could not hide his joy with the re-union with his family just as he told whoever cared to know that “today […]
The political camp of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has alleged lapses in Thursday’s presidential primaries of the PDP, quoting his agents at the collation of the result. The agents, it said, therefore “declined to sign the final result on account” of the lapses, with former President Olusegun Obasanjo taunting his former deputy yesterday just hours after […]
The federal government may be on a collision course with the 36 state governments over the failure of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to pay its N450billion debt to the federation account. The indication emerged on Friday shortly after this month’s Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeing in Abuja. The lingering NNPC debt had […]
THE perceived sins of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar against northern leaders during his first term in office played a major part in the decision of the region to turn away from him in spite of the Mallam Adamu Ciroma-led Northern Political Leaders Forum (NPLF) to prop him up as the region’s consensus candidate of […]
President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday morning scaled the first major hurdle in his bid to contest the April presidential election, as he beat his opponents, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Dr. Sarah Jibril, for the Peoples Democratic Party ticket. As at 4:15am when THE PUNCH went to bed, Jonathan was in a comfortable lead with 2162 […]
The Congress of the United State has requested the attorney-general, US Department of Justice to file criminal procedure against former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and his wife, Jennifer for alleged money laundering. In a letter signed by the chairman, Committee on the Judiciary, John Conyers, Jr dated January 7, 2011 and addressed to the US attorney-general, […]
The death toll from cholera outbreak in Lavun and Edati Local Government Area of Niger State has now risen from 8 to 13. LEADERSHIP gathered that 7 out of the victims were from Tama-Nku, a village in Edati Local Government where the outbreak was first noticed late on Tuesday. It was further gathered that 5 […]
Dangote Group has disclosed plans to invest about N15.24 billion in building a new cement manufacturing factory in Cameroon. The move, according to the company, was to ensure that African remained self-sufficient in cement production, and ensure that the products were easily available and affordable to the end users. A statement by the group, made […]
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Wednesday denied rumours of his death spreading across some parts of the country. The rumoured death of the 76-year-old laureate left many Nigerians and residents of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, worried. Many Nigerians made efforts to confirm the authenticity of the rumours. Soyinka, who reacted to the […]
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