By TAYE OBATERU, SAMUEL OYADONGHA & UMAR YUSUF It was a black weekend in Bayelsa State as 13 policemen were feared dead in a boat attack along the creek of Azuazuama in the Southern Ijaw local government area of the state. 26 others were killed in separate attacks in Adamawa, Plateau and Borno States. The […]
Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido, has said the Peoples Democratic Party will not embarrass its National Chairman, Dr. Bamanga Tukur. He said the problems in the party were not strange. Lamido said this in Abuja on Thursday while addressing journalists after the meeting of the committee set up by the governors to handle […]
Governor Idris Wada of Kogi State and his Anambra State counterpart, Peter Obi, have promised to collaborate to restore peace in the boundary communities of Odeke and Aguleri. The people of Odeke in Kogi and Aguleri in Anambra have been at war over the ownership of an oil well in the area. The governors, who […]
A bomb exploded in Kano metropolis on Thursday, throwing the area into pandemonium. Eyewitnesses said the bomb exploded on Zoo Road near a local pharmacy. A JTF source however said no casualty was recorded in the explosion. The source added that troops had already condoned off the area. Two weeks ago, no fewer than 80 […]
A 13-year-old girl, Precious Edu, has accused the brother-in law of her employer of pouring hot water on her. Edu, who said she was denied the opportunity of attending school after she was brought to work with Esther Amunde and her brother-in-law, Papa, in Calabar, Cross River State, said Papa poured the water on her […]
Operatives of the Joint Task Force on Sunday averted another major attack by terrorists in Kano by raiding their hideouts at Unguwa Uku area of the ancient city. The operatives, acting on a tip off, were said to have raced to the area around 4am and intercepted a Volkswagen Golf, primed with explosives, which some […]
President Goodluck Jonathan had a good dose of the epileptic state of the nation’s power supply as his Easter message during a service at Our Saviour’s Church (Anglican Communion), Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos, was punctuated by an outage on Sunday. Power supply to the church auditorium went off about six minutes into the President’s speech […]
BY NDAHI MARAMA, Maiduguri A policeman was killed by unknown gunmen at the wedding of his two daughters in Damboa town in Damboa local government area of Borno State, local sources said yesterday, saying the incident happened on Friday. Residents told our correspondent that the deceased policeman was shot dead in front of his house […]
BY ANAYO OKOLI THE new Assistant Inspector General of Police [AIG], Zone 9, Umuahia, Abia State, Mr. Tambari Yabo Muhammad, has called on the governors in the zone to set up security trust fund to assist in providing logistics for security agencies in the zone. Muhammad, who spoke to journalists shortly after meeting with police […]
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | March 27, 2013 – The recent presidential pardon of Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha, Governor of Bayelsa State, from 29 May 1999 to 9 December 2005, has generated an understandable sense of outrage across the country. Alamieyeseigha is credited with plucking President Jonathan from total political obscurity and […]
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