NO fewer than three people were confirmed dead while 14 others were seriously injured, when unknown persons threw a locally made bomb into some beer joints on Sunday, at about 8.30 p.m., in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Mike E. Zuokumor, addressing newsmen on Monday in his office, […]
A strong indication has emerged that the recent post-presidential election violence which erupted in the North was carefully organised to cause unrest across the country with a view to forcing the armed forces to take over government in the country. However, a source who preferred anonymity told the Nigerian Tribune that those who allegedly sponsored […]
Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has appealed to the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) to toe the path of honour by intervening in the post-election violence in some parts of the North by appealing to rampaging youths in the affected areas to sheathe their swords. […]
Maiduguri — Bomb blasts have killed at least three people in Maiduguri, while at least 15 were wounded, the police said today. The police said they suspected the Islamist sect known as Boko Haram was behind the attacks on Easter Sunday night at a hotel tavern and transport hub in Maiduguri, as well as a […]
A prominent politician and one time presidential candidate of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC), Alhaji Bashir Othman Tofa, had opened up to LEADERSHIP SUNDAY on how he escaped death when irate youths stormed his house last Monday in the wake of the riot to protest preliminary results of the presidential election. Tofa, who lost […]
Dutse-The NYSC coordinator in Jigawa, Mr Baba Ahmed, said he has withdrawn 350 corps members serving in Hadejia local government due to insecurity resulting from post election violence in the area. Ahmed told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview, Friday, in Dutse that the corps members were taken from their places of […]
That confidence was shattered on Thursday when the Director General of the National Youth Service Corps in the company of Governor Isah Yuguda of Bauchi State addressed about 600 corps members who had been evacuated to the state capital following the violence that greeted the outcome of the presidential election. Four of the corps members […]
The controversy trailing the last presidential election took another dimension yesterday when members of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) disowned the party’s standard-bearer, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. They said that the election was the freest ever conducted in Nigeria. After the results of the presidential election were announced, Buhari had rejected results in the South […]
Former Minister of information and Communication, Prof. Dora Akunyili, has sensationally revealed what transpired in the inconclusive Anambra Central Senatorial District election on April 9, which she contested. In an interview, in her Abuja residence, Akunyili dismisses the bribery allegation made by the former returning officer in the election. She told Saturday Sun that there […]
Barely one week after the presidential election, tragedy struck the household of vice presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Pastor Tunde Bakare, when his Lagos home was gutted by fire yesterday. No life was lost. Saturday Sun gathered that the fire, which affected a section of the building, on Abiodun Olaiya Street, […]
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