FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo caused a stir that almost disrupted the Church Service marking the 70th birthday thanksgiving service in honour of a former Managing Director Nigerian Airways, Major-General Olu Bajowa (Rtd) on Monday in Igbotako, area of Ondo State. Obasanjo who suddenly developed stomach upset mid way into the Church service had to be […]
The Council of Ulama (Islamic clerics) in Plateau State has disowned the claim by Jama’atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda’Awati Wal Jihad, the previously unknown group that took responsibility for the Christmas Eve multiple bombings in Jos. Spokesman of the Ulama, Alhaji Sani Mudi, said in a telephone interview yesterday: “I don’t think it’s a credible group or […]
Super Eagles’ skipper, Joseph Yobo, has moved to the United States of America with his family to celebrate the New Year before reporting to Nigeria for the Nations Cup preparations next week. The Eagles’ captain, who was recently in the United Kingdom to pick his wife and son, Junior, before returning to Turkey to prepare […]
Barely four months to the general election, President Goodluck Jonathan’s kinsmen in Bayelsa State have pledged to mobilise and enlighten the electorate on the need to return him to office in 2011. Those who averred that they were irrevocably committed to return President Jonathan to office, spearheading the enlightenment campaign on why he should be […]
President Goodluck Jonathan’s bid for the 2011 presidential election received a boost on Saturday when the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) throwing its weight behind his aspiration. In a statement by MEND’s spokesperson, Jomo Gbomo, the movement, which has claimed responsibility for several terrorist attacks in the country, hailed the Presidents […]
The Ebonyi State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party( PDP) yesterday alleged plans by politicians to import thugs from the Niger Delta into the state to disrupt the party’s primaries in January. Addressing members of the Ebonyi Youth Assembly in Abakaliki, the youth leader and president of the body, Comrade Chinedu Ogah, said there are […]
The root of the problem is that the Nigerian state depends not on a constitution but on a commodity: oil.’ Richard Dowden, Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles Chinua Achebe and the Nigerian crisis IT is a most apt opportunity for me to pay tribute to Professor Chinua Achebe who is easily one of the greatest […]
A Canadian taken hostage at gunpoint on an oil rig off the coast of Nigeria a month ago has broken his silence about his nine-day ordeal, expressing sympathy for the kidnappers even though they shot him. Robert Croke of Torbay, in eastern Newfoundland, had said he would never work in Nigeria’s oil industry after hearing […]
The Senate on Wednesday carried out a minor reshuffle in the leadership of its committees, with a few senators losing their chairmanship seats and others assuming new positions The adjustment also saw the creation of a new Committee on Special Duties. Former governor of Benue State, Senator George Akume, lost his seat as the chairman […]
THE Senate yesterday threatened to withhold allocations to all parastatals that fail to submit their 2011 budgets to the National Assembly for approval. At the close of debate on the general principle of the 2011 budget proposal forwarded by President Goodluck Jonathan to the National Assembly last week, Senate President David Mark remarked that some […]
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