Fundamental Islamist sect, Boko Haram, has vowed to mow down nine more persons in addition to a groom that was shot dead after a wedding fatiha in Maiduguri, Borno State on Saturday. The disclosure came yesterday as the sect’s spokesman, Abu Kaka, dissociated the group from the death of two men shot dead on Sunday […]
The Federal Government has been advised not to yield to pressure from the Western nations to legalise same-sex marriage in Nigeria. The Chairman of the Kwara State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Rev. James Foloranmi; his Committee of Muslim Organisations counrterpart, Prof. Shehu Jimoh; and the Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association, Ilorin branch, Mr. […]
Worried by the upsurge in violence in some states in the North, the Women General Assembly of the Tarraya Ekklisiyoyi Kristi A Nigeria (Fellowship of the Churches of Christ in Nigeria) on Saturday in Kaduna urged the government to punish anyone funding the violent acts in the region. The General Assembly of the fellowship also […]
Miffed by the extravagant lifestyle of key government officials during foreign trips, the Presidency has introduced new initiatives that would monitor the spending habits of all principal office holders while abroad. To this end, the Presidency will today hold a conference for governors, ministers, directors of ministries, council chairmen and other key government officials to […]
Barring any last minute changes, President Goodluck Jonathan is expected to present estimates of the N4.8 trillion 2012 budget to the National Assembly on December 13. The expected presentation is coming amid unresolved issues on the propriety of the removal of the oil subsidy. The House of Representatives had been vocal in its opposition to […]
Monday, December 05, 2011 Ojukwu Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section The South-East governors yesterday in Enugu announced that the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu would be buried in his Nnewi country home in Anambra State next February. Chairman of the South-East Governors’ Forum and Anambra State Governor Peter Obi, who made this […]
By Jide Ajani The investigations by the Department of State Service (SSS) into the alleged complicity of Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume and the activities of the Boko Haram sect, took a new twist, as one Alhaji Sanda Konduga, whoclaimed to be the father of a suspect, Ali Sanda Konduga, declared that his son is insane. […]
BY WALE AKINOLA The last appears not to have been heard on the operation of foreign accounts charges levelled against Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu while in office as Lagos State governor by the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) as Tinubu is threatening to seek redress. The charges weer last week dismissed by the Code of […]
By Emma Ujah, Abuja A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed a suit filed against the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke, challenging her appointment by President Goodluck Jonathan over alleged fake National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) certificate. Justice Gabriel Kolawole, on Friday, dismissed the suit in its entirety, and awarded N150,000 […]
By Taye Obateru & Gabriel Enogholase TWO-time governor of defunct Bendel State, Dr. Samuel Osaigbovo Ogbemudia, has described the late Ikemba Nnewi, Chief Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, as a “gallant nationalist and freedom fighter” who fought for his rights and for the rights of the overwhelming majority of his Igbo people. In reminiscence of their days in […]
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