By: JULIET EBIRIM Ahead of the Independence Day celebration: Elders compare the state of the country now and what it was prior to independence Our politicians are not sincere — Akpan F.I Those days, you could buy something with equivalent of 20kobo and still have change. The monthly earnings were less than equivalent of N100 and it was […]
A DESPERATE Bulawayo woman, Catherine Ndlovu, who allegedly paid thousands of dollars to visit Nigeria, seeking divine intervention for her hospitalised daughter has been reported as one of the 115 people confirmed to have died after the collapse of a church building owned by the pastor, TB Joshua. Yesterday, the family of Ndlovu, 40, accused TB Joshua and […]
Fifty fleeing members of the Boko Haram sect were said to have been apprehended by soldiers in Biu, south of troubled Borno State. Security sources revealed that the insurgents who were travelling from the Damboa axis of the state hid in atruck going to Gombe. A security source told journalists that the arrested men were in the custody […]
Borno-born journalist said to be a close ally of Boko Haram, Ahmad Salkida, has dismissed the reported killing of a top leader of the outlawed Islamist sect. Salkida, who is on self-exile in the United Arab Emirates over alleged threats to his life, said he has it on “authority” that Abubakar Shekau was hale and […]
TB Joshua President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday morning paid a visit to the site of the collapsed six-storey building of the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Ikotun, Lagos. The President said the primary purpose of his visit was to condole with the founder of the church, Temitope Joshua and the families of the more […]
Some retired senior military officers have backed the death sentence passed on 12 soldiers of the Nigerian Army for committing mutiny. The officers told SUNDAY PUNCH that it was necessary for the military to maintain its age-long rules on discipline. The soldiers were court-martialled for a variety of offences, including firing shots at the General Officer Commanding, […]
By Olasunkanmi Akoni & Monsur Olowoopejo Barely, one week after the Synagogue incident, President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, sent experts to the scene of the collapsed six storey building at the Synagogue Church Of All Nations, SCOAN, to commiserate with the church leaders. The team was also sent to conduct immediate investigation into the immediate and […]
There are strong indications that efforts of the Federal Government to ensure amicable settlement of issues surrounding the $9.3m seized by South Africa have failed. South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority, in an email to our correspondent in Abuja on Thursday, said that the matter was still under criminal investigations. There were reports on Wednesday that […]
Abuja – The Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, has urged northern elders and youths to strive to ensure that peace reigned in the region for development to thrive. Maku made the call on Friday in Abuja at the Ministerial Press conference where the Minister of Works, Mr Mike Onolememen, appeared to present the score […]
WHEN the Australian negotiator, Dr Stephen Davis, alleged that an unnamed top official of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) was among the sponsors of the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria many people took his words with a pinch of salt as he had also named a former Chief of Army Staff, retired Lt Gen […]
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