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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
The Islamist sect, Boko Haram yesterday threatened fresh attacks on the media in Nigeria, including foreign agencies, and journalists in an 18-minute video posted on YouTube. The video also showed how a suicide bomber drove into ThisDay Newspaper office in Abuja and blew himself up, an attack, which claimed at least three lives last week. […]
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Boko Haram, Governors, Jigawa, Latest Politics, State News
Monday, April 30th, 2012
From: ISMAIL OMIPIDAN, Kaduna Tuesday, May 01 , 2012 Gov. Lamido Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State has challenged the National Security Adviser, NSA, General Andrew Azazi, to name the sponsors of Boko Haram, within the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, since by his (NSA) own […]
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Latest Politics, Presidency
Sunday, April 29th, 2012
Umoru ABUJA — FORMER Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, yesterday, threw his weight behind the embattled National Security Adviser, General Andrew Owoye Azazi (rtd), saying he only confirmed what some people have been saying that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is the cause of all politically-related violence and terrorism […]
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Latest Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Sunday, April 29th, 2012
April 29, 2012 by Olusola Fabiyi and Olalekan Adetayo National Security Adviser, Gen. Owoye Azazi (retd) | credits: File copy President Goodluck Jonathan indicated on Saturday his willingness to summon the National Security Adviser, Gen. Owoye Azazi (retd), for linking the Peoples Democratic Party with the spate of bombings in the country. Also, the PDP […]
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Bayelsa, Enugu, Latest Politics, National Politics, Plateau, Raw Politics, State News
Sunday, April 29th, 2012

More ex-gover-nors who allegedly looted public funds and laundered them in the United Kingdom, are in trouble, as the authorities there are buoyed by their success in the trial of a former governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, to activate their files. Ibori was on April 17, sentenced to 13 years imprisonment for money […]
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Latest Politics, Oil Politics
Friday, April 27th, 2012
April 27, 2012 by John Ameh, Abuja A member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Robinson Uwak, on Thursday repeated his call on the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, to resign her appointment following the uproar over the N1.07tn fuel subsidy scam. Uwak had made the same call on the floor of the […]
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Katsina, Latest Politics, State News
Friday, April 27th, 2012
In a swift reaction to the bombing of the Kaduna offices of The Sun, Thisday and Moment newspapers yesterday, the Kaduna State Governor, Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa has described the incident as sad, unbelievable and shocking. In a statement issued by the governor’s media spokesman, Reuben Buhari, it noted that it was inhuman to subject journalists […]
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Latest Politics
Friday, April 27th, 2012
When Senator Iroegbu, a reporter with ThisDay Newspapers, Abuja, left his house yesterday morning for the office at Jabi, Abuja, the least he had on his mind was bomb blast even though he has been reporting bombing incidents. However, his wife had a premonition that something bad was going to happen and tried to prevent […]
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Latest Politics
Friday, April 27th, 2012
Among the early callers at the ThisDay bomb blast scene yesterday were former minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir el-Rufai and immediate past governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel. Speaking with Daily Sun, El-Rufai said the situation was very sad that Nigerian lives continued to be lost to the incapacity of […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Friday, April 27th, 2012
The Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram, has said it attacked media houses in Abuja and Kaduna yesterday to send a message to the media that it would no longer condone reports misrepresenting it in the press or blaming it for acts it knows nothing about. Abul Qaqa, spokesperson for the […]