FEBRUARY 23, 2013 BY JOHN ALECHENU, ABUJA 1 COMMENT The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Nigeria on Friday officially denied links to terror suspects paraded by the State Security Service in Abuja, on Wednesday. The denial came 48 hours after the affair was made public. In a statement sent via e-mail to […]
President Goodluck Jonathan will receive President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil on Saturday in Abuja and hold talks with her on the further expansion of trade and economic relations between Nigeria and Brazil. President Rousseff’s official visit to Nigerian is in furtherance of efforts to boost economic and developmental cooperation between Nigeria and Brazil which were […]
The Federal Government and Britain have tightened their grip on funds flowing to the Boko Haram and its breakaway faction, Ansaru, in their determination to cripple the activities of the terror groups. Saturday PUNCH learnt that Nigeria and Britain had in conjunction with some other countries intensified the search for sources of funding for these […]
The Chief Executive Officer, Transcorp/Woodrock, the consortium that won the bid for Ugheli Power Plc, Mr. Tony Elumelu, on Thursday said with the signing of transaction and industry agreements for the Power Holding Company of Nigeria’s successor companies, the stage was set for the citizens to enjoy uninterrupted power supply. Elumelu spoke with State House […]
Abuja – President Goodluck Jonathan has reversed the change of name of the University of Lagos which he renamed Moshood Abiola University in a broadcast to mark the 2012 Democracy Day. Chairman, Governing Council of University of Lagos, Professor Jerry Gana disclosed this yesterday in Abuja during his inauguration alongside three others by the Minister […]
The suspect was recruited to target hotels and offices frequented by Americans and Israelis Iranian extremists trained and equipped a Nigerian accomplice to go after American and Israeli interests in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, in a broad-based plot that would have killed many, the State Security Service said on Wednesday. The proposed attacker, Abdullahi Mustapha […]
Federal Government has arraigned 15 Russians for unlawful importation of arms and ammunition. The Nigerian Navy on October 18, 2012, arrested the accused foreigners and arraigned them before Justice Okechukwu Okeke of a Federal High Court, Lagos, on Tuesday. The accused, who pleaded not guilty to the four counts in the charge are Zhelyazkov Andrey […]
President Francois Hollande confirmed that seven French tourists from one family, including four children, were kidnapped Tuesday in northern Cameroon and said he suspected a Nigeria group was responsible. “What is most probable is they were taken to Nigeria,” Hollande said, adding that they were seized by a Nigeria-based “terrorist group that we know well”. […]
BY EMMANUEL AZIKEN, DAPO AKINREFON, CHARLES KUMOLU & GBENGA OKE The disclosure by First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan of the critical nature of her health, Monday, aroused scathing criticisms from opposition political parties and some of the country’s leading civic society groups. The opposition parties and civil society advocates slammed Federal Government for projecting a […]
BY SONI DANIEL & KINGSLEY OMONOBI ABUJA— There were indications, Sunday, that the embattled Pension Reform Task Team, PRTT, Chairman, Alhaji Abdulrasheed Maina, had fled the country to escape arrest by the police and other security agents on his trail. Maina is reported to have moved to one of the Middle East nations, following the […]
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