The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) yesterday identified Mr. Adams Joseph Ashaba, as the Boko Haram suicide bomber, who allegedly masterminded the bombing of the Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) in Jos, the Plateau State capital on February 26, disclosing that he was actually a member of the church. The bomber had allegedly attacked COCIN that […]
Three members of Boko Haram yesterday met their waterloo in the hands of the Joint Task Force (JTF) soldiers while trying to burn another school in Maiduguri, Borno State. The Islamist sect has lately shifted focus on torching schools which the group said is in retaliation for the burning of Quranic Schools in the state […]
Following the deportation of 125 Nigerians from South Africa last Sunday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned the South African High Commissioner to Nigeria, Kingsley Mamabolo, over the unfortunate incident. At about 2:24p.m, Daily Sun had earlier sought for an audience with the High Commissioner but was told by an officials of the Commission […]
VIOLENCE continued to reign in some states of the north at the weekend as members of the Boko Haram sect killed five people, including a 10-year-old child. The sad incident persisted as three of the four victims of the February 26 bombing at the Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) Headquarters in Jos were buried […]
A WORKER verification exercise carried out by the Federal Government in Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) has shown that 17,000 “fake employees” are on the payroll of the firm. It was also discovered that PHCN has 6,000 casual workers. The biometric project was undertaken by Creative HR, which in its report, said there was […]
IT is one incident too many. But it is clear that the Federal Government is no longer ready to accept the frequent mistreatment of Nigerians by South African authorities and allow such actions go unnoticed. Prior to the latest indecent treatment of some Nigerians aboard Arik Air plane, past incidents had created spasms of tension […]
President Goodluck Jonathan has again described the late ex-Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu, Ojukwu as a selfless leader who fought against injustice while alive, just as the South East Governors said that Ikemba’s burial had brought to an end the wounds and pains of the Nigeria Civil War. Jonathn, who poured encomium on the late […]
The police, in Lagos on Friday, arraigned two men before a Magistrate’s Court in Yaba for allegedly stealing 391 Direct Data Capture (DDC) machines belonging to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The accused, Charles Awopetu (46) and Essien Godwin (42), were charged with conspiracy to commit felony and theft of the items. The police […]
The committee set up by President Goodluck Jonathan to restructure and rationalise the Federal Civil Service may have recommended a drastic pruning of the parastatals and agencies. Although the committee, headed by a former Head of Service of the Federation, Mr. Steve Oronsanye, was given eight weeks to conclude its work, its activities had been […]
By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South; Emma Ujah, Ben Agande & Gbenga Oke LAGOS— Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State joined elders and youths of the Niger Delta yesterday in dismissing demands by northern Governors for the scrapping of the derivation principle in revenue allocation just as it emerged that the restoration of peace to […]
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