For the second time in less than one week, Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos High Court in Igbosere on Monday shielded the former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, from being cross-examined on a vital document in the trial. However, she admitted the document […]
President Goodluck Jonathan has written to congratulate former President Ibrahim Babangida on the occasion of his 70th birthday which comes up tomorrow, August 17, 2011. In a letter to General Babangida, President Jonathan prayed that God Almighty will bless him with “many more years of robust health, prosperity and continued distinguished service to our nation”. […]
The Finance Minister designate, Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has said her role won’t put her in opposition with Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor,Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. Apparently dousing speculations that she would clash with the CBN Governor on the demarcation between fiscal and monetary policies, Okonjo-Iweala said both of them would work together for the […]
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Until Saturday, July 9, 2011, when Tavershima Olayinka, Orkar, an architect, and second son of the late Major Gideon Gwadza Orkar, got married in Ogbomosho, Oyo State, not much had been heard of the family of the man who led one of the bloodiest revolts in Nigeria’s political history: the putsch against the General Ibrahim […]
The Delta Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Mr Richard Mofe-Damijo, has blamed “excessive stress” for the death of veteran actor, Sam Loco Efe. Efe, 66, died in a hotel in Owerri, Imo State on Sunday after a post-production work on the Unknown Prophet a film he directed Mofe-Damijo told the News Agency of Nigeria in […]
Disturbed by the continued incarceration of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, a former Chief Security Officer (CSO)to the late head of state, General Sani Abacha, youth groups in the North that met under the aegis of Arewa Youth Forum(AYF), at the weekend, appealed to former Head of State, General Abdusalami Abubakar, to clarify the issues raised by […]
What they told Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar Although late in the day, the revelations of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, the once dreaded Chief Security Officer, CSO, to the late maximum dictator, General Sani Abacha, in a Lagos courtroom last week created what some are describing as comic distraction to other pressing national issues. Mustapha’s revelations eclipsed the […]
Former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the late General Sani Abacha, Major Hamsat Al-Mustapha, yesterday has stirred the hornet’s nest by mentioning names of two leading Yoruba leaders who are already late as beneficiaries of the Federal Government’s largesse to scuttle the June 12, 1993 presidential poll struggle. He mentioned Senator Abraham Adesanya, the leader […]
President Goodluck Jonathan said yesterday that the death of Chief Edwin Ume-Ezeoke, erstwhile national chairman of All Nigerian People’s Party (ANPP), is a national loss. The President led other eminent Nigerians including the leadership of the House of Representatives, presidential candidate of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the last April elections, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari […]
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