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Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Headlines, National Politics, Raw Politics, Religion, Top Stories
Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
Despite a denial by the national leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) that it did not receive a seven billion Naira bribe from President Goodluck Jonathan, the pastor who broke the story last week insists the association was bribed. President Goodluck Jonathan and Ayo Oritsejafor in Israel in 2013 State House Photo And […]
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Abuja (FCT), Headlines, Nigerian Police, State News
Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
SSS Operatives The police and other security agencies have stepped up security in the Federal Capital Territory following Tuesday bomb blasts in Kano and Yobe States which claimed over 37 lives. Findings indicated that the security agencies had raised the security alert for the FCT to prevent a similar incident in the city. Security sources […]
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American Politics, Headlines, Kogi, State News
Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
An American woman doing missionary work at a school in Kogi State was abducted by masked gunman, police say. Kogi State police spokesman Sola Collins Adebayo told reporters that unknown gunmen first entered the school and started “shooting sporadically to scare away people” at around 10am Monday morning. The unnamed woman was taken from the […]
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Headlines, Niger Delta
Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
In a remarkable change of tone, ex-militant leaders from the Niger Delta zone who had threatened mayhem if President Goodluck Jonathan was defeated in the forthcoming presidential election, yesterday pleaded with Nigerians to vote to re-elect the incumbent president. They suggested that Mr. Jonathan be returned to office based on what they described as the […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
Bali: Indonesia’s attorney-general says preparations for the execution of Bali nine drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are “90 per cent ready”, revealing that 10 felons will face a firing squad in the next round of killings. And it appears that three Indonesian murderers on death row have been taken off the list of […]
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Headlines, National Politics
Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
By Rotimi Fasan JOSEPH MBU is supposedly a trained police officer and goes around with the rank of an Assistant Inspector General, but he behaves like his high office demands. How this man has managed to make it through the police force all these many years without evidence of ever being made to account […]
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Headlines, Okey Ndibe
Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
Even at the tamest of times, Nigeria can be an infuriating address. In an election season, it becomes maddening, a space where nothing is sacred any more. Lies, which are often the politician’s favorite currency, enter a festering phase. Tall tales are traded across partisan divides. In the age of the Internet, where the most […]
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Headlines, Imo, State News
Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
Coffin in Imo Govt House: Widows curse Okorocha, supporters From GEORGE ONYEJIUWA, Owerri Hundreds of widows in Imo State have placed curses on the state Governor, Rochas Okorocha, and his supporters for allegedly peddling falsehood that the widows placed a mock coffin at the gate of Government House, during their […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, State News, Women Politics
Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson Many shed tears in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital, on Tuesday as the remains of eight female politicians burnt to death on February 14, were buried at the Gloryland Cemetery in Azikoro Village. The female politicians, including wife of the Secretary to Bayelsa State Government, Elizabeth Oguru, were burnt to death […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
APC governorship candidate, Dakuku Peterside Chapters of the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State on Tuesday were at each other’s throats over alleged attacks on party members and supporters. While the APC said the PDP was responsible for the death of over 30 of its members and supporters, the latter […]
