A diplomatic row seems to be brewing between Nigeria and the United Kingdom following a proposed policy by the British Government requiring Nigerian travellers to the UK to deposit £3,000 as bond in case they overstay their visa limits. On Monday, the Federal Government summoned the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Dr. Andrew Pocock, over […]
These are not the best of times for Godsday Orubebe, the Niger Delta Affairs minister. Still battling to wriggle himself out of the allegations of stealing and acquisitions of mansions in Abuja, made by the Dino Melaye, led network against corruption, Orubebe is again riding in another gathering storm of scandals. Indeed, playing the script […]
In order to stop crude oil theft in Nigeria, President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday night met relevant stakeholders in the oil sector to map out strategies to check the menace. Speaking with State House correspondents shortly after the meeting, the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison Madueke, said the president summoned relevant stakeholders in the […]
Ben Agande, Abuja. President Goodluck Jonathan has called on state governors not to shy away from signing death sentences passed on convicted criminals saying that as leaders, their responsibilities include doing both the “sweet and the ugly part” a long as it is sanctioned by law. In a message at the Villa Chapel to commemorate […]
KANO (AFP) – An armed gang has raided a northern Nigerian village and killed 48 people in an apparent reprisal attack targeting a local vigilante group, a state official said Wednesday. The attack saw gunmen move house to house as well as take positions atop a hill and open fire, the official said. Houses were […]
By Henry Umoru …Fundamentalism, corruption threaten democracy — Shonekan ABUJA — FORMER President of Ghana, Flt. Lt. Jerry Rawlings, Monday said if Nigeria and other parts of Africa must get it right and strengthen democracy, corrupt politicians must not be allowed to go scot-free. This came as former Interim Head of State, Chief Ernest Shonekan, […]
By CHUKS EZE (fazec1@yahoo.com) For Nigerians resident in Kenya, these are the worst of times. Their plight could be compared to the era of slave trade when able-bodied Africans could not tell what the next minute held for them because human traffickers could pick them up the next minute. Checks revealed that in recent times, […]
THE Presidency totally rejects the false, hypocritical and self-serving claim by Mallam Nuhu Ribadu at a lecture in Kaduna on Saturday that Nigeria under President Goodluck Jonathan is a “sinking ship” in which the yearnings of the masses are being neglected by a tyrannical leadership. We find it very sad and utterly deplorable that Nuhu […]
The Federal Government on Friday opposed a no-case submission filed by Kabiru Sokoto, a Boko Haram leader accused of masterminding the December 25, 2011 bombing of St. Theresa’s Catholic Church in Madalla, Niger State. Sokoto is being tried for terrorism-related offences before an Abuja Federal High Court presided by Justice Ademola Adeniyi. The Federal Government […]
Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, on Thursday in Kaduna said the greatest disservice to the country and its democracy was for Nigerians to keep silent in the face of injustice. According to Ribadu, citizens engagement is the fertilizer that aids the growth of true democracy. He said, “Without […]
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