* Date embodies unity, equity, justice, says Nobel laureate * ‘Those who signed away victory’ LIKE a festering wound that defies treatment and sticks out implacably, June 12 re-awakens sore memories of the nation’s political failure, injustice and inequity. Twenty years ago, on June 12, 1993, the nation’s political march being led by the late […]
Wanted Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, could be tried for terrorism in the United States or in courts of partner nations if caught, the U.S. Acting Assistant Director of Diplomatic Security Threat Investigations and Analysis Directorate, Kurt Rice, has said. Rice whose country on Monday placed $23m bounties on five leaders of terrorist groups in […]
By Kingsley Omonobi, Abuja Indications that Boko Haram insurgents who say they are against Western education and anything to do with the west, have been deceitful, emerged yesterday after troops found packs of condoms, used and unused, in their camps. Also found were syringes and narcotic drugs believed to have been used by the insurgents […]
By Our Reporters LAGOS —Hours after he was suspended from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, yesterday, solicited prayers from citizens of the state against desperate persons who he claimed were after his life. The suspension of Amaechi from the party was agreed during an unscheduled and unusually early morning […]
By News Express, www.newsexpressngr.com, on 26/05/2013 A radical Nigerian Muslim has condemned Wednesday’s slaughtering of a British soldier in London by two young Muslim converts of Nigerian parentage but claimed that Britain was only reaping what it sowed. Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, both in their twenties, launched an unprovoked street attack on Lee Rigby […]
LONDON (AFP) – One of the suspects in the brutal murder of a soldier in Britain was arrested in Kenya three years ago and questioned over alleged links to Islamist insurgents, it emerged on Sunday. The Kenyan government confirmed that Michael Adebolajo was detained in 2010 but said he was handed over to British intelligence […]
Mr Achebe’s body arrived back in Nigeria on Wednesday from the US, where he died in March at the age of 82. Relatives and officials were at Enugu airport in southern Nigeria as the coffin was lowered from the plane. Mr Achebe is widely regarded as the founding father of African literature in English. His […]
Sultan of Sokoto and President-General of the Jama’atu Nasril Islam, Alhaji Muhammad Abubakar III, on Sunday decried the killings in Bama in Borno State and Alakyo in Nasarawa State by insurgents. Abubakar, also the President of Nigeria Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, noted that with the killings in Bama and Lafia, it had been shown […]
BY SONI DANIEL, REGIONAL EDITOR, NORTH Second Republic lawmaker, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, yesterday, slammed President Goodluck Jonathan for awarding multi-million Naira pipeline protection contracts to Niger Delta militants of Ijaw extraction, describing the action as illegal and self-serving. Mohammed, who spoke in an exclusive interview with Vanguard, noted that it was unbecoming of the administration […]
By Chris Ochayi ABUJA – The National Chairman of Labour Party, Chief Dan Nwanyanwu has criticised Nigerians, especially, those in political circle for being disrespectful to President Goodluck Jonathan, noting that the president was the most abused ever in the history of the country. Chief Nwanyanwu who made the remarks while receiving the leadership of […]
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