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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to urgently address critical issues bordering on the Nigerian state, so as not to jeopardize the continuity of the federation. He said multifarious problems buffeting the nation must be addressed comprehensively, without which, an ominous fear and uncertainty would continue to loom over the […]
The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier-General Ismaila Tsiga, yesterday, berated governors in Northern states where corps members were killed in post-presidential election violence, penultimate weekend, and said he was ready to quit. Speaking on an African Independent Television, AIT, programme, monitored in Abuja, the D-G said governors of states where the […]
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