Sixteen lives were lost yesterday in Jos as armed youths took on soldiers in a free for all. The crisis was a fallout of Friday’s shooting of 15 students of the University of Jos. Also, filling stations, shops and several houses were burnt yesterday in the Farin Gada area. Speaking to newsmen in Jos, the […]
The Presidency has begun moves to contain the opposition of the apex socio-cultural group, Arewa Consultative Forum, to President Goodluck Jonathan’s ambition in the April election. A splinter group had issued a communiqué after ACF’s Tuesday meeting in Kaduna, spurning Jonathan’s emergence as the Peoples Democratic Party candidate for the election. Jonathan had emerged […]
President Goodluck Jonathan Friday arrived Ethiopia for the 16th Ordinary AU Summit. The Ethiopian Minister of Water Resources, Mr. Alemuyehu Tageru, received President Jonathan and his entourage at the Bole International Airport, alongside the Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Odein Ajumogobia and the Ambassador to Ethiopia, Mr. Thaddeus Hart. On the entourage of the […]
Still fuming over over the presidency’s recent comment that he is not a democrat, Senator Joseph Waku yesterday accused the presidency of rather being undemocratic. Waku, who represented Benue North-West Senatorial District between 1999/2003, had in a national daily (not Vangaurd) accused President Goodluck Jonathan of inducing delegates to secure his victory during the just […]
Former secretary of the Political Committee of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Alhaji Abdulrahman Mohammed, has distanced himself from the position of the group, insisting that the communiqué did not reflect what transpired at the meeting. The group had after its Tuesday’s stormy session, came out with a communiqué, signed by its Publicity Secretary, Anthony […]
President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the appointment of Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu as senior special assistant, Diaspora Affairs. Jonathan also appointed Mr. Kingsley K. Kuku as special adviser, Niger Delta Affairs, Dr. Zakari Ibrahim, coordinator, Anti-Terrorism; Oyewole Olugbenga Leke, senior special assistant, Maritime Services. The statement signed by the Special Adviser to the President, Media and […]
The wisdom and maturity, shown yesterday by the chairman of the foremost northern socio-cultural group, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Major General Ibrahim Haruna (retd), saved the meeting from degenerating into a free-for-all, Daily Sun learnt. This is even as the group came hard on the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, describing the emergence of President […]
Former PDP presidential aspirant, Rev. (DR) Emma Obianagha said the exit of Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo as chairman of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has again sent the party often referred to as the largest political body in Africa to the political market to shop for a new helmsman. He wondered whom the Wadaza Plaza […]
CHIEFTAINS of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) have, on Tuesday, unanimously agreed not to support President Goodluck Jonathan’s quest to remain as president in the forthcoming election ACF also expressed its disappointment with the conduct of presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying that it was below standard. The decision was reached and […]
THE ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) held its convention and presidential party primaries on Thursday January 13 at the Eagle Square, Abuja. The three candidates at the primaries were incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan, former Vice president Abubakar Atiku, and Mrs Sarah Jibril. In the run up to this, there had been much mudslinging and exchange […]
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