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Boko Haram, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Latest Politics
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012
By Emeka Mamah & Wole Mosadomi … as Aliyu proffers solution to security challenges Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has blamed the inability of the Federal Government to find lasting solution to the Boko Haram phenomenon on what it described as its “cavalier” approach to the problem. Moreso Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State has […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012
BY Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA—An event or ganised in honour of the retiring Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Dahiru Musdapher, in Abuja, Tuesday, took a different dimension, after a member of the Board of Trustees, BoT, of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and publisher of Champions Newspaper Ltd, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, urged the Federal Government to […]
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Latest Politics
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012
Owode-Ede (Osun) – The Federal Government is to create 3.5 million jobs in the agricultural sector by 2015. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, made this known on Tuesday at Owode-Ede in Osun during the launch of the Growth Enhancement Support Scheme on Fertiliser and Seeds. Adesina also said government had […]
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Latest Politics
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012
June 20, 2012 by Ademola Babalola and David Attah VIOLENCE in the northern states of Kaduna and Yobe spread on Tuesday, necessitating an imposition of a 24-hour curfew on the two states where the death toll in three days of attacks rose to 99. The casualty figure is made up of 74 deaths recorded in […]
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Kaduna, Latest Politics, State News, Yobe
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
2012 VICE-PRESIDENT Namadi Sambo, on Tuesday, met in an emergency session with service chiefs over escalating violence in parts of the country. The National Security Adviser (NSA) to the President, General Andrew Azazi, who fielded questions from State House correspondents after the meeting which took place at the vice-president’s wing of the Presidential Villa, said […]
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Latest Politics
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
2012 Share THE presidential committee set up by the Federal Government on the security challenges in the North-East zone of Nigeria has come down hard on Nigerian judges for aiding the activities of Boko Haram by setting arrested members of the sect free on technical grounds. In a White Paper released by the Federal […]
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Latest Politics
Monday, June 18th, 2012
FORMER Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Abubakar Tsav, has cautioned security agencies handling the bribery allegations against the Chairman of the House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy Regime, Farouk Lawan, against destroying evidence. Lawan was suspended by the House last week after the Zenon Oil Chairman, Mr. Femi Otedola claimed that […]
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Latest Politics, Nigerian Police
Monday, June 18th, 2012
June 19, 2012 by Niyi Odebode and Adelani Adepegba 113 Comments Three policemen consisting of a superintendent and corporals have been detained for allegedly allowing the suspended Chairman of the House of Representtaive Ad hoc Committee on fuel Subsidy Regime, Mr. Farouk Lawan to go home at night while in detention. It was learnt on […]
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Latest Politics
Monday, June 18th, 2012
The Federal Government has taken of about N100 billion in loans in the past one year. The borrowings were inclusive of external and domestic financial facilities for the running of the administration. The figure was disclosed by the Director-General of the Debt Management Office (DMO), Dr. Abraham Nwankwo in an official statement yesterday. The statement contained […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Latest Politics, State News
Friday, June 15th, 2012
Borno elders, led by a former Minister of Petroleum, Dr Shettima Monguno, has said the face-off between the aggrieved sect of the Jama’atu Ahlus Sunnah Lid da’waati Wal Jihad a.k.a Boko Haram and federal law enforcement agents has denied the people of the state the peace they had enjoying and almost brought the society to […]
