By New Nigerian Politics Staff Reporter Information reaching New Nigerian Politics from Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, has confirmed that the former First Lady of that state and current First Lady of Nigeria, Dame Patience Jonathan, had been employed in the State civil service since her husband assumed the deputy governorship in 1999 and […]
National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki By Muhammad Bello Issues bordering on global, transnational and internal security were top on the agenda of the meeting of the National Council of State (NCS) held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja Thursday. In attendance for the deliberation were former presidents of the country, the Senate President, Speaker of […]
A High Court in Ogun State on Thursday ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to return Chief Gbenga Daniel’s passport to enable him to travel overseas for medical attention. The former Ogun State governor is standing trial before the court on 38 counts of stealing, false declaration of assets and fraudulent conversion of land […]
July 13, 2012 by Chukwudi Akasike and Mike Odiegwu “Tanker exploded. The explosion sounded like an earthquake. Many of them could not come out alive,” a panic-stricken survivor of a petrol tanker fire that killed over 200 at the outskirts of Okogbe community, Rivers State, on Thursday narrated to The PUNCH. The survivor, whose car […]
July 13, 2012 by Eniola Akinkuotu A popular television presenter, Alhaji Razaq Gawat, has been abducted in Lagos, PUNCH Metro learnt on Thursday. Gawat, who is the anchorman of an Islamic TV programme during, E didè e ji sari, which is broadcast on Nigerian Television Authority Channel 10, was reportedly abducted around Apongbon end of […]
July 13, 2012 by Success Nwogu and Mike Odiegwu Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association, Ilorin branch, Mr. Rafiu Balogun, and leader of Committee of Muslim Organisations, Kwara State, Prof. Shehu Jimoh, on Thursday in Ilorin, described the appointment of the wife of the President, Dame Patience Jonathan as one of the 17 new Permanent Secretaries in […]
By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor Samuel Oyadongha & Dapo Akinrefon LAGOS—Reactions have continued to trail the appointment of the First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, as a Permanent Secretary in Bayelsa State Civil Service. While Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, described the appointment as sycophancy carried too far, Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, argued that with […]
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By OLASUNKANMI AKONI, EVELYN USMAN & MONSUR OLOWOOPEJO LAGOS—Pandemonium broke out yesterday at Ojuelegba, Surulere area of Lagos State when students allegedly from Yaba College of Technology, YABATECH, took to major highways and went after officials of the Lagos State Transport Management Authority, LASTMA, wounding at least four and abducting one in the process. The […]
By GBENGA ARIYIBI … How she was tortured in Ekiti palace, by daughter ADO-EKITI—A 70-year-old woman, Mrs. Rebecca Adewumi, was, yesterday, lynched by a mob in Omuo-Ekiti, Ekiti State, over alleged witchcraft, even as the deceased family petitioned the police, asking for justice. Narrating the ordeal her mother passed through to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, the first […]
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