Izu Umunna Cultural Association, Nigeria, a Jos-based Igbo socio-cultural organisation, has warned that it will no longer fold its hands and watch the blood of innocent Igbo men and women spilled on the streets of Jos in the name of crises. The group, in a strongly worded statement signed by the President, Prof Zebulon Okoye; […]
Security operatives from the Federal Criminal Investigation Department in Abuja have detained the Saki of Arigidi-Akoko in Ondo State, Oba Yisa Olanipekun. The FCID operatives arrested the monarch in company with officers of the Oke-Agbe division of the Nigerian Police on Friday. The development marked the high point of the crises rocking Arigidi-Akoko in the […]
Kano – Gunmen killed three people at a movie theatre in a northern Nigerian city in an attack police believe is politically-motivated ahead of general elections due in April. The attack took place in Maiduguri where radical Islamist sect Boko Haram has been blamed for a series of attacks in the city where it launched […]
The Amaechi 2011 Re-Election Campaign organization has described the withdrawal of Celestine Omehia from the governorship race on the platform of the PDP in Rivers State as an expression of lack of confidence in himself and a sure sign that he would have failed woefully in the primaries. Chairman of the Amaechi 2011 Re-election Campaign […]
Pandemonium will best describe the scene that fateful Friday of December 31, 2010. This was after an explosive device was detonated at a part of the Mammy market located inside the Mogadishu Cantonment Barracks in Abuja where people sell roasted fish. When the dust finally settled, four people, including a pregnant woman and three others […]
No fewer than nine persons were killed in a fresh wave of violence that erupted in Jos, the Plateau State capital, during the ward congresses of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) at the weekend. Making the weekend bloodier, a group of masked and armed bandits walked into a beer parlour in Gombe, Gombe State, […]
The announcement of the final result of the Delta state gubernatorial re-run election may have once again thrown the state into another round of political brouhaha as some contestants have disputed the result, alleging gross electoral irregularities. PHILIP NYAM recounts how it all happened. After several weeks of mudslinging, muck raking, subterfuge and finally a […]
Jos, Plateau State capital, was again thrown into confusion as two separate incidents degenerated into violence resulting in the death of at least five people. A disagreement among members of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) over their ward congress held yesterday was said to have turned violent and was allegedly hijacked by some people who […]
AN orgy of violence yesterday swept across Bayelsa State as six people were feared killed in a clash between rival political groups. Trouble started at Port Harcourt where young men suspected to be hoodlums waylaid the convoy of the Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in Bayelsa, Timi Alaibe at the airport. The suspected hoodlums reportedly […]
By Sunny Chris Okenwa, Abidjan, Ivory Coast – Jan. 7, 2011 – Chief Great Ovadje Ogboru came into the national limelight and reckoning after the failure of the late Major Gideon Gwaza Orkar-led coup d’etat against the then dictator Gen. Ibrahim Babangida in April 1990. In the aftermath of the coup’s regrettable failure to achieve […]
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