JUNE 12 was Wednesday elevated to an industry as five southwestern states, comprising Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun and Ekiti declared the day a public holiday to mark the 20 years of the annulled mandate of late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, who died in detention on July 7, 1998. Commemoration of the historic date, preserved […]
* Date embodies unity, equity, justice, says Nobel laureate * ‘Those who signed away victory’ LIKE a festering wound that defies treatment and sticks out implacably, June 12 re-awakens sore memories of the nation’s political failure, injustice and inequity. Twenty years ago, on June 12, 1993, the nation’s political march being led by the late […]
The co-owner of Amigo Supermarket, Mustapha Fawaz, and three Lebanese – Abdalah Tahini, Talal Rouda and Khosai Nouridine – arrested in connection with the armoury and Hezbolla terror cell in Bompai, Kano State, have filed a suit before the Federal High Court, Abuja. They are demanding N50bn as compensation from the State Security Service, Director-General […]
From ABDULGAFAR ALABELEWE, Kaduna Pioneer Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and 2011 presidential candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, yesterday urged Nigerians to unite and recover their country from alleged tyrants. He decried the reign of corruption and insensitivity to the plight of the common man, […]
Wanted Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, could be tried for terrorism in the United States or in courts of partner nations if caught, the U.S. Acting Assistant Director of Diplomatic Security Threat Investigations and Analysis Directorate, Kurt Rice, has said. Rice whose country on Monday placed $23m bounties on five leaders of terrorist groups in […]
Security operatives have begun a massive search for Hezbollah armoury and terror cells in the North. Security operatives had on Thursday found an armoury and terror cell at No. 3, Gaya Road, Off Bompai Road, Kano. The building was said to be owned by a Lebanese who was out of the country when the discovery […]
The fight for the control of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum between Rivers Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, and Plateau Governor, Jonah Jang, took a different turn on Friday as pro-Ameachi governors, represented by Lagos Governor, Babatunde Fashola, went to court to stop Jang from parading himself as the chairman of the NGF. Fashola, who filed the suit […]
The Federal Government has again stated that the on-going State of Emergency in Adamawa, Yobe and Borno is meant to protect the civilian population and the territory from the macabre and dastardly assault on the Nigerian rather than the country reports from some media houses. This was made known in a statement signed Saturday by […]
PRESIDENTIAL campaign posters featuring Jigawa State governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido, and his Rivers State counterpart, Rotimi Amaechi, surfaced in the Federal Capital Territory on Wednesday thus signalling an interesting twist to the 2015 elections. The coloured posters, versions of which had been reportedly sighted earlier in Kaduna and Niger states, bear portraits of Lamido and […]
American civil rights leader, Baptist Minister and two-time Democratic Presidential nominee, Rev. Jesse Jackson, was in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, as a Guest Speaker at Isaac Boro Day lecture. He spoke on a wide range of issues in this interview with journalists. MIKE ODIEGWU was there. An excerpt: You are from one of the most advanced […]
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