GUNMEN suspected to be members of the Boko Haram yesterday continued their attack and killing of security agents and community leaders in Bauchi, Borno, Plateau and Yobe states. The Federal Government is not however helpless over the situation as it unveiled more measures to check the development. It also announced a three-day national conference on […]
The people of Ondo State, especially the state’s stakeholders, last Monday were in festive mood as Governor Olusegun Mimiko rendered accounts of his stewardship for the last three years at a Stakeholders Forum in Akure, the state capital. Mimiko, who said he could not afford to let the state down disclosed that one thing that […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commsion (EFCC) says embattled former governor of Delta State, James Ibori, who is standing trial for money laundering in London Court will still be tried for corruption whenever he returns to Nigeria. This was contained in a statement issued on behalf of the commission by its acting head, Media and […]
Hell was let loose in Ejigbo and Mafoluku areas of Lagos State yesterday, as street urchins popularly called ‘Area Boys’ unleashed violence. In the melee, four persons were feared killed and over 50 people injured. About 20 vehicles were vandalized during the clash by the factional gangs, who were fighting over toll collection at a […]
Ibori Former Delta State Governor James Ibori yesterday pleaded guilty in a British court to money laundering and conspiracy to defraud. He admitted nearly £50 million fraud, said to be part of total embezzlement which could exceed £250m (about $400m). The British police accuse him of stealing the money over eight years and the […]
Former leader of the defunct Republic of Biafra, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, on Monday received a heroic welcome in death, at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The remains of the late presidential candidate and National Leader of the All Peoples Grand Alliance, which arrived the Abuja airport in the […]
Reports out of London are indicating that former Delta State Governor, Chief James Ibori has pleaded guilty Monday to 10 counts of money laundering and conspiracy to defraud in his UK trial. Initially the former number one citizen of Delta State had been insisting that he was innocent of the charges and was ready to […]
For the third time running, Senator Liyel Imoke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has emerged winner of the February 25 governorship election in Cross River State even as the ACN, HDP and CPC have rejected the result alleging electoral malpractices. Imoke scored 451, 544 votes, which was 90.11 per cent of total votes cast, […]
From EMMANUEL UZOR, Onitsha Monday February 27, 2012 Photo: The Sun Publishing More Stories on This Section Over 200 members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) yesterday took over major roads and streets of the commercial city of Onitsha in a roadshow as part of the burial rites […]
Monday February 27, 2012 Ojukwu Photo: The Sun Publishing More Stories on This Section The challenging security situation in Kano State notwithstanding, Igbo residents modestly came out at the weekend to bid their leader, Dim Chukwuemeka-Odumegwu Ojukwu, a deserving farewell. While Ohaneze Ndigbo, Kano State chapter, marked their mourning rites with traditional search of the […]
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