UNITED Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon is dispatching his deputy, the most senior UN official besides him, and other top officials of the UN to Abuja to find out details of yesterday’s attack on the UN building in Abuja. Speaking with reporters at the UN headquarters after the attack, Ban said: “I am asking the Deputy […]
UNITED States (US) President, Barack Obama, has condemned the bombing of the United Nations building in Abuja, saying that “the lasting bond” between the American people and Nigerians would only emerge stronger in the wake of the attack, which he described as a “murderous act.” In a release by the White House after the attack […]
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan on Friday “utterly” condemned the suicide attack on the United Nations’ Building in Abuja, describing it as “barbaric, senseless and cowardly.” The President said “the attack is a most despicable assault on the United Nations’ objectives of global peace and security, and the sanctity of human life to which Nigeria wholly subscribes.” […]
According to Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), it is studying the amount the CBN had invested in Islamic banking and would demand the same treatment when the Christian outfit is set for take-off. The new initiative of the association was made public yesterday in Benin City, Edo State, by CAN President, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafo He […]
Leader of Movement for the Actualistion of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike and 281 of his followers who were arrested by the police on Wednesday, were yesterday remanded at the Enugu Prisons on the orders of a magistrate court in the state. Uwazuruike was detained late Wednesday when he went to […]
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, yesterday said critics of President Goodluck Jonathan over his approval of National Judicial Council (NJC)’s suspension of the President of the Court of Appeal (PCA), Justice Ayo Salami are biased and partisan in their views. He accused them of ignoring the provisions […]
President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday said he should be assessed after one year before passing judgement whether he has failed or passed. He threw the challenge when members of the Yoruba Council of Elders, led by its President, Maj. Gen. Adeyinka Adebayo (retd) paid him a courtesy visit at the State House, Abuja. The group had […]
The Nigerian Army has carried out a major shake-up involving over 30 senior officers from the rank of Colonel to Major- General. The changes are coming on the heels of the first anniversary of the current service chiefs on September 8, 2011. Those affected in the new postings in the top echelon of the army […]
THE investiture of the ailing Biafran leader, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, by Igbo Youths Movement (IYM) was almost disrupted in Enugu on Wednesday, as about 1,000 youths suspected to be members of the outlawed Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), who came to witness the event, were arrested by the police […]
Former military president, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, yeterday, doused the tension generated by his recent verbal war with former president Olusegun Obasanjo, saying he would not hesitate to embrace him whenever they meet. Babangida exchanged greetings with aviation correspondents on his way to Minna after he had paid a condolence visit to the family of […]
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