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Education, Latest Politics, Nigerian Police, Top Stories
Saturday, October 26th, 2013

By ANAYO OKOLI, UmuahiaIn support of continued strike of the university teachers, ASUU chapter of the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia state yesterday held a peaceful rally to enlighten the public on the ASUU/FGN 2009 Agreement and MOU of January 24th 2012.However, scores of policemen stormed the university campus, venue of the rally […]
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Aviation, Headlines, National Politics, Top Stories
Thursday, October 24th, 2013

MINISTER of Aviation, Ms Stella Oduah, has taken the lobby to retain her job to Israel, where she plans to see President Goodluck Jonathan. The minister, who was said to have found it difficult to see the President in Abuja since the scandal broke out, was said to have also sent many emissaries to […]
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Biafra, General Politics, Headlines, Top Stories
Thursday, October 24th, 2013

BY LUKMAN OLABIYI Some family members of the late Biafran leaders and Ikemba Nnewi, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, has challenged the Nigerian Ambassador to Spain, Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu to show proof that she was legally married to the deceased. This was the fresh twist introduced into current legal battle rocking the family of the late Ikemba […]
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Aviation, Headlines, National Politics, Top Stories
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013

By Femi Kehinde, Lagos The Executive Director, Anti-Corruption Network and former member of the House of Representatives Hon. Dino Melaye, was arrested this afternoon by police in Abuja and whisked away in a Toyota Hilux van, marked NPS 21280 at about 1pm over a protest calling for the removal of the Minister of Aviation, Ms. […]
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General Politics, Headlines, Niger Delta, Oil Politics, Rivers, State News, Top Stories
Monday, October 21st, 2013

FROM CHRIS ANUCHA The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), has said that it was responsible for the damage of Shell facilities, which caused further pollution of the environment in Ogoniland and other communities in the Niger Delta region. The pollution was said to have been due to crude oil spills and […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, General Politics, Latest Politics, State News, Top Stories
Monday, October 21st, 2013

Members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect may have killed 19 people in Borno State on Sunday. AFP reported that the insurgents who were dressed in military uniforms and wielding AK 47 assault rifles killed the 19 motorists by blocking the highway near Logumani which is 19 kilometres from the nation’s border with Cameroun. It […]
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Headlines, National Politics, Top Stories
Saturday, October 19th, 2013

Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah The Federal Government has begun a manhunt for the whistleblower that broke the story of the two BMW armoured cars bought for Aviation Minister, Ms. Stella Oduah. The cars, valued at N225m, were purchased for the minister by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority. The Director-General, NCAA, Capt. Fola […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), First Ladies, General Politics, Latest Politics, Party Politics, Patience Jonathan, Top Stories
Wednesday, October 16th, 2013

Mrs. Patience Jonathan | credits: news.naij.com The All Progressives Congress has said the decision of the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, to receive a honorary doctorate degree from a South Korean university while Nigerian universities have been shut for months was the height of insensitivity. This was contained in a statement signed by […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Governors, Latest Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Top Stories
Wednesday, October 16th, 2013

The ongoing efforts to reconcile aggrieved Peoples Democratic Party members with the Bamanga Tukur-led National Working Committee of the party,appear to have finally hit a brick wall. A hint of this emerged when Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako, told a visiting All Progressives Congress delegation on Wednesday, that himself and the six other aggrieved […]
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Latest Politics, National Politics, Nigerian Police, Top Stories
Wednesday, October 16th, 2013

Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Abubakar Mohammed Some police inspectors and rank and file from the Imo State Police Command have threatened to go on strike over their redeployment to some violence-prone states in the North. The aggrieved policemen who met in Benin, the Edo State capital, said they would start the strike in November. […]