THERE are clear indications that the Inspector General of Police, Hafiz Ringim, may effect a mass transfer of officers from Force Headquarters to police zones and state commands. This follows last Thursday’s bomb blast, which killed about eight people and destroyed over 70 cars, at the Force Headquarters. The wreckage of the cars is now […]
Jonathan summons IG, officers shelve parley N’Assembly co-opts ballistic experts into security checks THERE was an uneasy calm yesterday at the Police Force Headquarters in Abuja as foreign and local security experts intensified the search for persons involved in last Thursday’s bomb blast at police prime office. Even police officers in the premises looked worried […]
AHEAD of next week’s expected submission of President Goodluck Jonathan’s list of ministerial nominees to the Senate, facts emerged, yesterday, that the former Minister of Education, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili was said to have been contacted, but she was not too keen about leaving her World Bank job for Nigeria now. Her former colleague in the […]
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, commenced a comprehensive re-jig of the Presidency with the prospects of an increase in the number of ministries. Vanguard gathered that the reappraisal of the instruments of government which has been delegated to some of the President’s trusted aides was aimed at formulating a new organogram in the executive branch of […]
ABUJA— President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, approved the elevation of Justice Nwali S. Ngwuta and Justice Mary Peter Odili to the Supreme Court bench. The duo who were promoted to the apex court following recommendations by the National Judicial Council, NJC, were before yesterday Justices of the Appeal Court. They were shortlisted by the legal body […]
The UN Special Envoy to Darfur, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, has said it would be difficult for Nigeria to get a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council unless issues of the country’s corporate existence were resolved. Gambari, who spoke in Abuja against the backdrop of the violence, inter-religious and inter-communal clashes in the country, […]
BEFORE, a cover note known in diplomatic parlance as note verbale from the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs for visa applications was given instant treatment by missions in Nigeria. But now, the situation has changed and concerns have heightened over the way some embassies and high commissions routinely breach this protocol by turning down requests […]
Former head of state, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd) and former vice president, Dr. Alex Ekwueme are leading a fresh war against religious intolerance, which has led to violent crisis that has claimed the lives of thousands of innocent Nigerians in some parts of the country. Other prominent Nigerians involved in this fresh attempt to stamp […]
Soldiers from the 33 Artillery Brigade Headquatres, Bauchi on Saturday beat the Deputy Registrar of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi and his wife to a pulp. Mr. Andee Iheme and his wife, Moji were almost sent to their early graves as about eight soldiers pounced on them, raining blows, whips and verbal insults […]
The leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike has threatened that his group may abandon its non-violent approach and toe the line of the Boko Haram since the Federal Government understands the language of violence. Uwazuruike, in an exclusive interview with Daily Sun in Owerri […]
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