$55bn: ‘You got it wrong,’ FG replies Obasanjo

The Federal Government, yesterday, responded to the allegations made by former President Olusegun Obasanjo against the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, including an alleged squandering of the nation’s $55 billion foreign reserve. The Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala explained that the former President got it wrong, stating that former President Obasanjo left a gross […]

Indiscriminate jail sentences of Nigerians in Ghana embarrassing -Ambassador

Ajayi Oluwapelumi Tuesday, January 6, 2015 advertisement                   In this interview by Ajayi Oluwapelumi, Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Ghana, Ambassador Ademola Oluseyi Onafowokan, shares his sympathy with Nigerian prisoners in Ghana, his efforts at ensuring their rights are not trampled upon and the constraints in prison exchange […]

The rise and rise of Diezani Alison-Madueke

    BY KAYODE OJO Whatever the Nigerian Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, has been doing in the past ten years, let those who know the woman encour­age her to keep doing them. Or how else can anybody explain her meteoric rise in the political waters like ours where danger­ous male sharks swim […]

Boko Haram: We’ll carry arms, if… –MASSOB scribe

»National»Boko Haram: We’ll carry arms, if… –MASSOB scribe   0 By Our Reporter on December 9, 2014 National From OKEY SAMPSON, Aba Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has said it will jettison its non-violent posture towards its struggle and carry arms if the Boko Haram insurgents threatening parts of […]

Super powers backing Boko Haram –Sheikh Abubakar Gumi

  Explains why Jonathan, Buhari should quit 2015 race FROM: ISMAIL OMIPIDAN, KADUNA Sheikh Ahmad Abuba­kar Mahmud Gumi is a reporter’s delight any day . Without pri­or appointment and long pro­tocols associated with public figures of his caliber in Ni­geria, Gumi, spoke for about 45minutes with Sunday Sun last Thursday in his Kaduna office on […]

$15m Arms Deal: Why we have been silent, says FG

By Sam Eyoboka THE Presidency, yesterday, opened up on the controversy surrounding the seizure by South Africa of Nigeria’s $15m meant for the purchase of arms for the Nigeria Intelligence Service. On September 5 this year, two Nigerians and an Israeli national attempted to smuggle into South Africa $9.3m cash conveyed in a chartered private jet which […]

$9.3m: Dokubo-Asari denies involvement, blasts Lai Mohammed

The Leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujaheed Dokubo-Asari, on Wednesday distanced himself from the $9.3 million botched arms deal in South Africa, saying he had not been to the country since 2002. His denial came on the heels of a call by the All Progressive congress that the  Federal Government should […]

APC, PDP Reps poised for showdown

  Members during plenary at the floor of the Nigeria House of Representatives THE Peoples Democratic Party and All Progressives Congress caucuses in the House of Representatives are set for another showdown when the House resumes on October 14 . The issue that will spark off the row is the latest seizure by the South […]

South Africa seizes another $5.7m Nigeria’s arms deal (How they fleece Nigeria & Nigerians remain silent)

By Kingsley Omonobi, Dapo Akinrefon, with Agency Reports ABUJA—Three weeks after South Africa confiscated $9.3m belonging to the Federal Government over an alleged illegal arms deal, the South African authorities have seized another $5.7m arms money from Nigeria. Last month, two Nigerians and an Israeli were arrested at Lanseria International Airport, Johannesburg, after they attempted […]

Synagogue miracles are not fake — TB Joshua

The founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Temitope Joshua, has refuted allegations that he performs fake miracles. The pastor has come under severe criticisms owing to the church’s collapsed building which killed at least 115 people. A South African journalist, Jacques Pauw had alleged that Joshua’s miracles were not genuine. In his report […]

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