Ojukwu for burial next Feb –S’East governors

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 […]

Picture: Boko Haram: Father declares suspect insane

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. […]

Fall-out of Trial: Tinubu threatens to sue FG

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 […]

Fake NYSC certificate: Court dismisses case against Diezani

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 […]

Ojukwu: Biafra would have been the toast of Africa – Ogbemudia

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 […]

What Ojukwu told me before, during and after the war —Sam Aluko

•Ojukwu Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section This interview is the most intimate account of the thoughts and actions of Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu before, during and after the Nigerian civil war. The account is coming from Professor Sam Aluko, the respected Nigerian economist, who has revealed that he was the most trusted […]

Boko Haram: 140 killed in 138 attacks –Army chief

The Army High Command yesterday disclosed that the dreaded Boko Haram Islamic fundamentalists group killed 140 people in 138 attacks carried out between the year 2010 and 2011. This is coming at a time the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, said that the sect was a product of bad governance and […]

Rescind decision on gay marriage or else… •Britain gives Nigeria condition for partnership •No country can dictate to us -Senate president

THE Federal Government on Thursday disagreed with the British Government over the recently passed same-sex marriage bill as the Senate president, David Mark insisted that the law is irrevocable in spite of the threat by the foreign nations to withdraw assistance to Nigeria on account of that law. While the British Government said that Nigerian […]

Bianca expresses gratitude to Nigerians in UK

Bianca, widow of the late Chief Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, on Thursday, expressed gratitude to Nigerians resident in the United Kingdom (UK) for their support to the family during the period of her husband’s hospitalisation. She expressed the gratitude when a delegation from the Central Association of Nigerians in the UK (CANUK), led by its chairman, Mr Bimbo Folayan, […]

Senate rejects state burial for Ojukwu

THE Senate, on Thursday, opposed a proposal for state burial for the late Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, arguing that the former  Biafran leader did not fall in the category of those who should be so honoured. They, however, advised the South-East governors to come together and give him a befitting burial. While paying glowing tribute to […]

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