The planned rerun of primary elections in some states by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has been described as a deliberate attempt to truncate Nigeria’s frail democracy. A press statement issued in Abuja yesterday by the chairman, Publicity Committee of the Patriotic Alliance of Nigeria, PEAN, Engr Damian Ogbonna condemned in strong terms, PDP’s […]
Major General Asif Duraiz Akhtar (rtd), the Pakistani High Commissioner to Nigeria, in this interview, speaks on the challenges of his country, Pakistan’s relationship with Nigeria, terrorism, among other issues. Excerpts: How is Pakistan coping with flood problems? The flood was devastating. It was a calamity of great magnitude, one of the worst floods in […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested the Chairman of Biliri Local Government Area, Gombe State, Mr. Rabenson Zebulum Wasa. According to the anti-graft agency, the chairman’s arrest is in connection with a multi-million-naira fraud case whose investigation has been on since December 2008. In a statement yesterday by Mr. Femi Babafemi, EFCC […]
A PRO-DEMOCRACY and development focused non-governmental organization, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has threatened to drag President Goodluck Jonathan before the International Crimes Court (ICC) if he disregards its advice to take practical and effective measures to stop the killings in Jos and Maiduguri. HURIWA in a statement made available to The Guardian indicated […]
There are indications that at least three sitting Peoples Democratic Party governors in the North are currently desperate for the support of President Goodluck Jonathan in the run-up to April’s governorship election. Investigations by our correspondents on Friday showed that there was concern among the supporters of Zamfara State Governor, Alhaji Aliyu Shinkafi; his Sokoto […]
Barely 48 hours after the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) issued a communique denouncing the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) primary that produced President Goodluck Jonathan as its presidential candidate, a pro-Jonathan member of the ACF and former secretary of the forum’s political committee, Alhaji Mohammed Abdurrahman, has called the bluff of the Arewa chieftains, whom he […]
Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, witnessed pandemonium on Friday following the killing of All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) candidate in the forthcoming April poll, Alhaji Modi Fannani Gubio, and six other persons, including blood brother of Governor Ali Modu Sheriff, Alhaji Goni Modu Sheriff. The men were killed by gunmen suspected to be members of […]
When Alhaji Awana Ngala, an in-law to the Sheriff’s family and then chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) was shot dead last October, allegedly by Boko Haram men, not many believed that his death had anything to do with his political ambition. However, with the killing, yesterday, of Alhaji Modu Fanami Gubio, ANPP’s […]
Leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, has said that the struggle for the state of Biafra is still on. He said that his group will keep pressing for the state of Biafra until this is achieved, revealing that MASSOB has built an estate for […]
Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, was thrown into chaos yesterday afternoon following the killing of the governorship candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Modu Fanami Gubio, the younger brother of Gov Ali Modu Sheriff and five others by unknown gunmen. Saturday Sun gathered that Gubio, who was on his way to his father’s […]
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