DESPITE internal challenges of stability and the slur of electoral violence, Nigeria’s foreign policy would remain unchanged, Foreign Affairs Minister, Odein Ajumogobia, has said. Addressing members of the diplomatic corps accredited to Nigeria at the weekend in Abuja, the minister explained that although there may not be changes in the foreign policy, what might […]
WORRIED by the recent murder of some National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members in the post- polls violence in the Northern part of the country, the Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okogie has called on the Federal Government to compensate families of the slain youths. The call came as the Niger Delta Nationality […]
FORMER Edo State Governor, Chief Lucky Igbinedion, yesterday denied paying N10 billion to a judge in order to thwart his ongoing trial. The allegation was reportedly made by a senior Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) official. Meanwhile, a Federal High Court in Benin City will on May 31 rule on the preliminary objection […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) moved swiftly to respond to claims of underhand occurrences in the last presidential election by raising four points which it believed would easily knock off the petition by the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari had on Friday filed a notice at the […]
GOVERNOR Isa Yuguda of Bauchi state disclosed, Sunday, that over 600 suspects have so far been arrested and being prosecuted in connection with the murder of nine members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC during the post election violence in the State. Speaking with Journalists in Abuja, Sunday, Yuguda who noted that he stands […]
Indications emerged on Saturday that some of the Peoples Democratic Party governors who failed to secure a second term in office in the just concluded elections are lobbying for ministerial appointments in President Goodluck Jonathan’s new cabinet. Also, some ex-governors, particularly those whose tenures were cut short at election tribunals, are also making moves […]
The flurry of messages congratulating President Goodluck Jonathan from all over the world may have finally persuaded northern elements who were once opposed to his emergence as the nation’s number one citizen into soft-pedalling. SUNDAY PUNCH investigations showed that this change of heart and the consequent thaw in the attitude of some key northern […]
President Goodluck Jonathan and the defeated governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, have congratulated the All Progressives Grand Alliance candidate, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, on emerging victorious in the governorship poll concluded in the state on Friday. Speaking through a statement from his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Ima Niboro, Jonathan said, […]
The trial of Nigerian militant leader in South Africa, Mr Henry Okah, may have run into stormy waters as he has reportedly refused to take his meals for about three weeks. Okah is facing terrorism-related charges, following the October 1, 2010 bomb explosion in Abuja, Nigeria, that claimed about a dozen lives. He is linked […]
The newly-elected governor of Imo state, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, on Saturday declared that his victory at the polls is the triumph of truth over falsehood, maintaining, ‘this will be beginning of the end of the attitude of people foisting leaders on the people of Imo.” Speaking in an interview, the elated APGA candidate also disclosed […]
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