KADUNA (AFP) – A car bomb attack outside a church in Kaduna on Easter Sunday left at least 20 dead and scores wounded, a rescue source said. The explosion, a stark reminder of Christmas Day attacks that left dozens dead in the country, occurred where motorcycle taxi drivers and passersby caught much of the blast. At […]
Action Congress of Nigeria has asked the National Assembly to commence impeachment proceedings against President Goodluck Jonathan for admitting openly that he solicited “a bribe” from a foreign construction company, in violation of the Constitution that he swore to uphold. In a statement on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party […]
Lagos – (NAN) A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday dismissed the criminal charges filed against the former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank ( now Access Bank), Dr Erastus Akingbola, for lack of diligent prosecution. The EFCC had on Dec. 31, 2010 arraigned Akingbola on a 22-count amended charge of misuse of depositors’ fund, […]
PRETORIA (AFP) – Nigeria’s finance minister will run for the World Bank top job, her South African counterpart announced on Friday, the deadline for nominations to succeed Robert Zoellick. “We are proud to confirm that the Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will be a candidate,” Pravin Gordhan told reporters at a press conference, standing alongside […]
By Dan Udoh Abuja — As violence continues to rock parts of the North, the Federal Government may have opted to appease some northern states with the payment of 13 per cent derivation on solid minerals with immediate effect. A competent source told Vanguard that government was worried about rising insecurity in the northern part […]
Newly promoted Deputy Inspector General of Police, John Haruna was among several other senior police officers confirmed dead in a Surveillance helicopter that crashed at noon today in the crisis ridden Jos, North Central Nigeria. The police helicopter which crashed into four houses in Kabong on a security facility occurred just as it was conveying […]
The timely intervention of security operatives prevented another bloodbath in Jos on Monday following Sunday’s bombing of the St. Finbarr’s Catholic Church, Rayfield, even as the death toll rose to 19. Tension mounted as the hostilities between Christian and Moslem youths that started on Sunday, escalated on Monday with unconfirmed reports of the disappearance of […]
Fears have gripped ministers over President Goodluck Jonathan’s plan to reshuffle his cabinet and drop three members of the Federal Executive Council. SUNDAY PUNCH’s investigations in Abuja showed that the ministers and some chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party have been pressurising the president since they got the information about the planned cabinet reshuffle. It […]
ABUJA (AFP) – A British and an Italian hostage killed on Thursday were murdered by “their Boko Haram captors” and those responsible have been arrested, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said in a statement. Jonathan “condemned the killing of two kidnapped foreigners — an Italian and a British citizen — in Sokoto state Thursday by their […]
Fed Govt issues five conditions to end diplomatic row FIFTY-Six South Africans were barred last night from entering Nigeria through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. Twenty-eight were stopped on Sunday – in retaliation for the deportation of 125 Nigerians last Friday – as reported exclusively yesterday by The Nation. The government […]
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