Former Presidential candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has explained why he abandoned his presidential ambition to contest the governorship primary of the Peoples Democratic Party in Adamawa State.Ribadu, who spoke with journalists after he submitted his nomination form at the national headquarters of the party in Abuja on Monday, […]
Cameroonian officials have confirmed that at least 480 Nigerian soldiers are now in the protective custody of the neighboring country’s gendarmes after they crossed into Cameroon earlier today to escape from Boko Haram insurgents who have launched a massive offensive. Cameroonian gendarmes had disarmed the Nigerian soldiers, officials from the West African nation told a correspondent of […]
Abducted Chibok girls BRITAIN’s Royal Air Force plans to send three fighter jets to help in locating the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents on April 14 this year. The RAF Tornado GR4s equipped with surveillance facilities, according to Daily Mail on Wednesday, will undertake “reconnaissance missions” over the Sambissa Forest where […]
The All Progressives Congress has appointed at least 74 persons, including a former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari; and a former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu as members of its Board of Trustees. The list has not been officially released by the party but our correspondent learnt on Wednesday that the list comprised others […]
Chadian troops have rescued 85 Nigerians kidnapped last week by the Islamist terror group Boko Haram, security and human rights sources in Nigeria said Saturday. Dozens of Boko Haram insurgents stormed the Doron Baga fishing and farming village on the shores of Lake Chad late Sunday through Monday and took away 97 young men and […]
By Our Reporter on August 18, 2014 · Politics, Trending (ILORIN) A representative of Kwara Central District in the Nigerian Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, has responded to rumours of his ambition to contest for the Presidency in 2015, saying he will make his decision known in the right time. After a stakeholders meeting of the Kwara […]
By TAIWO AMODU, Abuja on August 18, 2014 · COVER ■ Party chieftains renew threat The defection of former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the weekend may have rekindled intrigues and rivalry among chieftains of the party in the state. Ribadu […]
By CHRISTOPHER OJI on August 18, 2014 · National, Trending Mr. David Shikfu Parradang, Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), is seen by his officers and rank-and-file as a welfarist who does not handle the well being of his workers with kid gloves. Within one year of holding sway, Parradang has lifted […]
By Our Reporter on August 17, 2014 · COVER ■ For defending husband Decontee Sawyer, widow of the late Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer who imported the deadly Ebola virus into Nigeria has come under scathing criticisms from Nigerians for defending her late husband’s mission in Nigeria at a time he was said to have been placed […]
Some Nigerians on Friday expressed mixed reactions on the 70 per cent mass failure in the May/June West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results. A cross section of Nigerians, who spoke with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN in Abuja, attributed the failure to non-charlatan attitude by students, teachers and the government. Prof. Chris Okoro, […]
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