AN overhaul of Nigeria’s security architecture was approved yesterday by the National Council of State in an emergency meeting in Abuja. The nation’s top advisory body indeed put the issue of security on the front burner. National Security Adviser, Gen. Owoye Andrew Azazi, who briefed the meeting said that the issue of terrorism has not […]
Fresh revelations have emerged on how the former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, mounted undue pressure on the Supreme Court justice to get his way in the 2003 presidential election. A just released Wikileaks cable revealed how the then Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Muhammed Uwais, confided in the then US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. […]
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has received the report by the Emeka Anyaoku-led Presidential Advisory Council on International Relations which carried out a comprehensive review of Nigeria’s foreign policy, declaring that a stable domestic political and economic environment was essential for a successful and robust foreign policy. The review was handed to the president in State House, Abuja on […]
FOUR years after leaving office, it has been revealed that the second term ambition of former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, in 2003, did not receive the blessings of some people in certain quarters, as the Nigerian Tribune gathered that former head of state, General Abdulsalami Abu-bakar, was not in support of the ambition. According to a […]
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has vowed that his administration will not shield any corrupt person from investigation or prosecution by the anti-graft agencies in the country. The president, who gave the assurance on Monday, at the opening ceremony of the 8th national seminar on economic crimes holding at the Training and Research Institute of the Economic […]
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) said the speedy disbandment of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal constituted by Justice Ayo Salami may have finally exposed the real reason he (Justice Salami) was removed as the President of the Court of Appeal (PCA). In a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, […]
Sokoto: Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III yesterday condemned last Friday’s bomb explosion at the UN Secretariat in Abuja describing it as an abominable act in Islam, especially in the blessed month of Ramadan. This is just as Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano has ordered the security agencies to release suspected members of the […]
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, on Monday announced that the police had arrested some suspects in connection with last Friday’s bombing of the United Nations office building in Abuja. The IGP, however, did not mention how many suspects were arrested or the identity of the suspects. Rather, he said President Godluck Jonathan […]
R–L: Regional Chief of Communication, UNICEF in Dakar, Mr. Martin Dawes; Under-secretary General for Security, Mr. Gregory Starr; and Deputy Secretary General, United Nations, Dr. Asha-Rose Migiro, at a press conference on the United Nations House bombing, in Abuja … on Sunday. Photo: Sam Adeko. Nigerians should expect more bombings in the months ahead, sources […]
ABUJA- (AFP) – Investigators probed a Nigerian Islamist sect on Monday over the suicide bombing of UN headquarters here that killed at least 21 people in one of the bloodiest attacks targeting the world body globally. Fresh violence hit Sunday when gunmen stormed the home of a local government chairman in the northeast and shot him […]
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