Posted by admin
First Ladies, Latest Politics, Rivers, Top Stories
Monday, July 15th, 2013

Wife of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, on Monday faulted the contributions of some unnamed persons she referred to as “otherwise respected elders” who, by their views, had been contributing to the crisis in Rivers State. While describing their utterances as unfortunate, she called on all feuding parties in the state to sheathe their swords […]
Posted by admin
Africa & World Politics, Top Stories
Monday, July 15th, 2013

WHEN Nigeria dispatched a jet from its Presidential Air Fleet late last month to fetch Malawi’s President, Joyce Banda, to Abuja, it unwittingly drew attention to our government’s fiscal recklessness. It was lost on President Goodluck Jonathan that while Banda had sold her cash-strapped country’s only presidential jet to save costs, he has, in three […]
Posted by admin
EFCC Politics, Headlines, Jigawa, State News, Top Stories
Friday, July 12th, 2013

Aminu Sule Lamido, the 34-year-old son of the Jigawa State Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for offences bordering on money laundering, was on Friday convicted by Justice Fatu Riman of the Federal High Court, Kano and ordered to forfeit 25 per cent of the undeclared […]
Posted by admin
Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Top Stories
Friday, July 12th, 2013

Flights have resumed at London’s Heathrow Airport after a fire on a parked Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet. All runways were closed for nearly 90 minutes after the fire at 16:30 BST. No passengers were aboard the plane at the time, a Heathrow spokesman said. Fifty Dreamliners worldwide were grounded in January after malfunctions […]
Posted by admin
National Politics, Presidency, Sani Abacha (1993-98), Top Stories
Friday, July 12th, 2013

A close aide to former Nigerian military ruler Sani Abacha has been acquitted of killing the wife of politician Moshood Abiola, after spending 14 years in prison. Major Hamza al-Mustapha was sentenced last year to hang for ordering the killing of Kudirat Abiola. She was shot dead in 1996, three years after the elections her […]
Posted by admin
Boko Haram, General Politics, Latest Politics, Top Stories
Wednesday, July 10th, 2013

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA -The alleged mastermind of the Christmas day bomb blast that killed about 44 persons and wounded 75 others at St. Theresa’s Catholic Church at Madalla, Niger State, in 2011, Kabiru Umar, a.k.a Kabiru Sokoto, Wednesday, told a Federal High Court in Abuja that though he was a high profile member of […]
Posted by admin
Action Congress of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Party Politics, Presidency, Top Stories
Wednesday, July 10th, 2013

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has heaped the blame for the ongoing crisis in Rivers State on President Goodluck Jonathan and asked the National Assembly to immediately commence impeachment proceedings against him, for failing to live up to his oath of office to uphold the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. In a […]
Posted by admin
General Politics, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency, Top Stories
Wednesday, July 10th, 2013

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday declared that he made “successful” mistakes as Military Head of State and civilian president. Obasanjo, who ruled the country between 1976 and 1979 as a military head and between 1999 and 2007 as a civilian President, however, took responsibility for all his actions. He spoke in Ibadan, Oyo State […]
Posted by admin
Headlines, Rivers, State News, Top Stories
Wednesday, July 10th, 2013

The political crisis in Rivers State degenerated on Tuesday as an attempt to impeach the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Mr. Otelemaba Amachree, sparked a free-for-all. Five members of the House opposed to Governor Rotimi Amaechi had engaged about 13 of their colleagues in a fight shortly after the pro-governor lawmakers resisted the move […]
Posted by admin
Boko Haram, Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Tuesday, July 9th, 2013

A Boko Haram commander accused of masterminding the December 25, 2011 bombing of St. Theresa’s Catholic Church in Madalla, Niger State, Kabiru Sokoto, on Monday informed an Abuja Federal High Court that he was tortured while being interrogated by security agents. Testifying in his own defence at the continuation of his trial, Sokoto insisted that […]