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2014 WAEC: Our students’ failure is our nation’s failure —Atiku –

Posted by admin Latest Politics Friday, August 15th, 2014

By Henry Umoru ABUJA — FORMER Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, attributed mass failure recorded by Nigerian students in the May/June 2014 West African Examinations Council to the non-chalant attitude of government to education from primary to university level. He described failure of the students as the nation’s failure. According to him, the failure of […]

Confab: Northern delegates reject draft constitution

Posted by admin Latest Politics Wednesday, August 13th, 2014

Former Chief Justice of Nigeria and chairman of the conference, retired Justice Idris Kutigi | credits: File copy Northern delegates attending the ongoing National Conference have dissociated themselves from the “New Draft Constitution” made available to all the delegates by the leadership of the conference in Abuja on Monday. The northerners said that they […]

Ebola: FG bans inter-state movement of corpses

Posted by admin Latest Politics, State News Wednesday, August 13th, 2014

Ebola: FG bans inter-state movement of corpses | credits: AFP The National Council on Health has banned the transport of corpses and critically ill persons on both local and international routes with immediate effect. It said only dead bodies with waivers granted by the Federal Ministry of Health would be transported within and into […]

Controversy over Jonathan’s picture at the US-Africa Summit

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, American Politics, General Politics, Latest Politics, Top Stories Wednesday, August 13th, 2014

Us-Africa Summit advertisement A photograph showing President Goodluck Jonathan and other African leaders posing with their American counterpart, Barack Obama, is the subject of a raging debate online. Jonathan is seen standing at the far end of the third row in the group photograph, which has since gone viral […]

Military will not cede any part of Nigeria to terrorists (Talk is cheap)

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Latest Politics Tuesday, August 12th, 2014

By Our Reporter on August 12, 2014 · COVER The Director of Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Chris Olukolade, on Tuesday reiterated the military would not cede any part of the country to insurgents. Olukolade made this known in Abuja when he reacted to the claim that terrorists […]

Wike dares Jonathan (Growing wings?)

Posted by admin Latest Politics Tuesday, August 12th, 2014

Sebagen Henry Noboh Monday, August 11, 201 Re: Wike dares Jonathan advertisement “When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.” – J. William […]

Soldiers’ wives protest movement of spouses in Borno

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Borno, Latest Politics, State News Tuesday, August 12th, 2014

By TIMOTHY OLANREWAJU, Maiduguri on August 12, 2014 · National Wives of army personnel in Borno State have protested against the movement of their husbands from Maiduguri barracks to an upgraded army formation in the state. The women, who gathered at the 21 Armoured Brigade (Giwa Barracks) in Maiduguri yesterday morning for the peaceful demonstration, […]

Jonathan describes late Patrick Sawyer actions as pure ‘madness.”

Posted by admin Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories Monday, August 11th, 2014

BY; VICTORIA OJEME ABUJA – President Goodluck Jonathan Monday described late Patrick Sawyer actions as pure ‘madness’ and craziness. Jonathan made the statement at the annual Interfaith Conference in Abuja. The president who expressed his disappointment with the way and manner Sawyer brought Ebola to Nigeria assured citizens that government is ready to stop the disease. “As […]

Jonathan mourns Offodile, Ade Ajayi

Posted by admin Latest Politics Monday, August 11th, 2014

President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday mourned a former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Chike Offodile (SAN), and a former Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Ade Ajayi. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, the President said he received with sadness, the […]

WHO declares Ebola ‘an international emergency’

Posted by admin Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories Friday, August 8th, 2014

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the spread of Ebola in West Africa an international health emergency. WHO officials said the possible consequences were “particularly serious” because of the virulence of the virus. The announcement came after experts convened an emergency meeting in Switzerland. So far more than 930 people have died from Ebola […]