February 14, 2012 by Ozioma Ubabukoh The family of late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu on Monday expressed discontent with Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, over the body’s inability to pay the bereaved family a condolence visit since the death of the ex-Biafra warlord. Late Ojukwu’s wife, Bianca, who spoke for the family in Enugu, noted that […]
February 14, 2012 by Ihuoma Chiedozie President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday inaugurated the Public Works and Women/Youth Employment Project, which is targeted at generating 370,000 jobs across the country before the end of the year. The PWW/YEP is expected to generate 50,000 skilled and 320,000 unskilled job opportunities, and is to be implemented in partnership […]
February 14, 2012 by Friday Olokor Special Rapporteur on Women’s Rights of the ACHPR, Mrs. Soyata Maiga | credits: File copy The African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights has picked holes in the report presented by Nigeria at its 50th session between October 24 and November 7 in The Gambia last year. ACHCR, in […]
The Federal Government on Tuesday sough approval from the National Assembly for its intention to borrow $7.9 billion from the World Bank, African Development Bank, Islamic Development Bank, EXIM Bank of China and Indian lines of credit. The intention was conveyed in separate letters to the Senate and House of Representatives by President Goodluck Jonathan. The President […]
February 13, 2012 by Segun Olatunji, Kaduna The General Officer Commanding the 1 Division of the Nigerian Army, Kaduna, Maj.-Gen. Joseph Shoboiki, has alleged that Boko Haram decided to attack the division to avenge the arrest of a suspected gunrunner, Alhaji Nuhu Marafa. According to him, the sect also embarked on the unsuccessful suicide […]
February 13, 2012 by Adelani Adepegba, Olusola Fabiyi and Segun Alatunji The team investigating the January 15 escape of re-arrested Boko Haram kingpin, Kabir Sokoto, has concluded plans to bring him before Commissioner of Police Zakari Biu. Biu was in charge of the investigations launched by the police after Sokoto, the alleged mastermind of the […]
February 12, 2012 by Success Nwogu Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, has said the general attitude to work of police officers falls far below minimum standards. Speaking in Ilorin on Friday during his working visit to Kwara State, he said the Nigeria Police Force, therefore needed a rebirth. The acting IG visited the […]
February 12, 2012 by JOEL NWOKEOMA and ALLWELL OKPI In this interview with JOEL NWOKEOMA and ALLWELL OKPI, Jonathan Powell, an American foreign-affairs columnist talks about the violent activities of the Boko Haram sect and the unity of Nigeria You wrote a book portraying Islam as a religion of peace, how do you reconcile that […]
BURIAL rites for the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu are expected to begin this weekend in all parts of the old South East zone with the popular Igbo culture of “Icho mmadu” (searching for the dead) which will be carried out by the youths in the major cities. Releasing the new programme for the burial, the […]
THE controversial zoning of power by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) between the North and South resurrected yesterday as northern elders responded to issues thrown up by the Boko Haram insurgency. Through their umbrella platform, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), the northern elders expressed worry over leaders of the region being labelled as opposed to […]
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