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Governors, Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Niger, Presidency, State News
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Buhari Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the April general elections, General Muhammadu Buhari, has said that Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State is unfit to hold a responsible office in Nigeria. Governor Aliyu had lashed out at the former head of […]
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Borno, Latest Politics, State News
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
SUSPECTED Boko Haram gunmen have shot and killed three prisons warders, along with a housewife, in two separate attacks on Monday and Tuesday in Abaganaram ward of Maiduguri metropolis. One of the prison warders and his wife, were ambushed on Monday night at the Abagaram ward shop at about 10.35 p.m., while the two other […]
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Judiciary, Latest Politics
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday sent names of three Justices of the Court of Appeal to the Senate for screening and confirmation as Justices of the Supreme Court. Their appointments followed the retirement of Justices of the apex court, Justices G. A. Oguntade, J. O. Ogebe, Niki Tobi and I. F. Ogbuagu. In a letter addressed […]
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Latest Politics
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
The helicopter carrying members of the United States special security force, Navy SEALs, malfunctioned as it approached Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on Monday morning. This heightened the tension that gripped President Barack Obama and members of his war cabinet in the White House Situation Room where they monitored the raid. But […]
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Latest Politics
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
There was pandemonium in some areas in the Kano metropolis on Monday as residents scurried to army and police barracks for fear of reprisal attack on them over the killing of the Al-Queda leader, Osama bin Ladin. In Hotoro, in Nassarawa Local Government area, one of the places that recorded heavy toll during the […]
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Kano, Latest Politics, State News
Monday, May 2nd, 2011
The ancient city of Kano was once again plunged into confusion yesterday, following reports of the death of Osama Bin Laden, the world’s most wanted man and the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade centre (WTC) in New York. As the news hit into the city, non-indigenes living […]
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Bauchi, Latest Politics, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), State News
Monday, May 2nd, 2011
ABUJA-Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State has said reports quoting him in a section of the media which portrayed him as being insensitive to the death of some members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, in the state during the recent political riots that trailed the presidential election was done out of context. Some […]
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Latest Politics
Monday, May 2nd, 2011
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday directed all national security agencies to remain on full alert in order to thwart any further attempt to breach the peace. The President, who is still on his seven-day retreat at the Obudu Cattle Ranch, Cross River State, told security agencies, especially those deployed “in identified flashpoints across the country”, to […]
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Bauchi, Latest Politics, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), Raw Politics, State News
Sunday, May 1st, 2011
Denunciation and condemnation on Saturday trailed the comments attributed to the governor of Bauchi State, Alhaji Isah Yuguda, that the National Youth Service Corps members who were murdered in the state were destined to die the way they did. Some corps members were killed in the state as well as in some other northern […]
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Latest Politics, National Politics, Niger Delta
Saturday, April 30th, 2011
Leader of the Niger Delta Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujadhadi Asari Dokubo, has said that presidential candidate of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari, should be arrested and prosecuted over the riots that claimed lives and properties in the North. Speaking with Saturday Sun, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Dokubo said that the violence […]
