Bill Clinton: Poverty fuels violence in the north

Former United States President Bill Clinton yesterday gave an insight into how Nigeria, given its abundant natural and human resources, can attain her full potential and bring development to the citizens. Clinton said Nigeria must strive to overcome her “three big challenges” – poor utilisation of oil money, bridging the widening gulf between the urban […]

Hurricane Mukthar: 3 judges to go

ABUJA—There were indications, yesterday, that the National Judicial Council, NJC, was not yet done with the cleansing of the judiciary of bad eggs that have significantly tarnished the image of that tier of government. In what has now been termed “Hurricane Mukthar,” three more judges, alleged to have been implicated in corruption-tainted matters are said […]

Good Governance tour, a fraud – CDHR

By LAJA THOMAS LAGOS—COMMITTEE for the Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, has said the ongoing “good governance tour” by the Federal Government is a fraud. Lagos State coordinator of the committee, Buna Isiak, in a statement said that what the Federal Government was doing by the tour was an aberration that should be condemned by […]

We can’t achieve our aim through violence – Boko Haram group insists

Maiduguri – A splinter group of the Islamic Boko Haram group, led by Sheikh Abdulaziz Ibn Adam on Saturday insisted that it was ready to dialogue with government to the group’s current bloody campaign. Ibn Adam made the announcement at a news conference in Maiduguri. He said that the group had come to realise that […]

Kalu, Saraki, Bode George, Ribadu, others form new group

A new political group with membership drawn from the nation’s crop of prominent politicians, has been formed. Chaired by the former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, the group parades an array of over 200 politicians in the country. According to a report by The Eagle Online, they include Senator Gbemisola Saraki who […]

Boko Haram denies kidnap of 7 French nationals

Abu Muhammad Ibn Abdulazeez, commander of the Boko Haram sect in charge of southern and northern Borno who has been speaking for the sect in recent times appeared again yesterday at a press conference with journalists in Maiduguri and absolved the Islamic militant sect of involvement in the kidnap of seven French nationals in the […]

100 opposition parties cannot defeat PDP (Because it always rigs?)

By HENRY UMORU ABUJA— WIFE of President Goodluck Jonathan, Dame Patience Jonathan Thursday boasted that 100 political parties put together can never defeat the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, come 2015 presidential election. Also Thursday aspirations of some politicians to the most exalted position in the land may have been dashed as the PDP through the […]

Atiku donates N75m to fight polio in Nigeria (Where did he get that kind of money?)

Former vice-president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has donated the sum of N75 million to the Rotary International, District 9110, Lagos, to help it fight polio in the country. he former vice-president, who was the guest speaker at the dinner and dance ball organised by the Rotary International at Muson Centre, Lagos, linked the increase in polio […]

13 govs threaten to pull out of NGF •As crisis tears forum apart

The division among the ranks of Nigerian governors under the aegis of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) appeared to have widened at the weekend, as no fewer than 13 governors have alleged that the last meeting of the forum was staged to scheme them out. Sources close to the forum told the Sunday Tribune in […]

EFCC ordered to reveal details of recovered Ibru’s properties

A federal high court, on Friday, ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to furnish Mr Boniface Okezie with details of properties recovered from Mrs Cecilia Ibru within 72 hours. Ibru, former Managing Director, Oceanic Bank Plc, was convicted of mismanagement of depositors’ funds and reckless grant of credit facilities in October 2010. Some […]

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