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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency, Top Stories
Tuesday, July 9th, 2013
The Northern Elders’ Forum on Monday said that the North would not support President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 presidential election. The spokesman for the group, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, stated this in an interview with one of our correspondents, while reacting to a statement by the Chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum, Babangida Aliyu. Aliyu, […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines, Top Stories
Monday, July 8th, 2013
By SAM EYOBOKA Emmanuel Nuhu Kure is the National Secretary of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, but based in Kafanchan, Kaduna State where he is the pastor of Throneroom Ministry, Recently, he was in Lagos for a programme at the National Stadium, and took time off to speak with Sunday Vanguard. Excerpts of interview….. […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Latest Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Top Stories
Sunday, July 7th, 2013
Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, on Sunday boosted that the All Progressives Congress would triumph over the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in the 2015 general elections, especially if the conduct of the polls would be free and fair. He spoke in Zaria, Kaduna State at an event organised by the […]
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Action Congress of Nigeria, Headlines, Party Politics, State News, Top Stories
Sunday, July 7th, 2013
The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria has refuted speculations that Senator Oluremi Tinubu, the wife of the National Leader of the Party, Bola Tinubu, has been chosen to succeed Governor Babatunde Fashola as Lagos governor. The speculations, which have become a subject for debate on the Internet, has it that Tinubu […]
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American Politics, Headlines, Top Stories
Saturday, July 6th, 2013
A Boeing 777 aircraft has crash-landed at San Francisco international airport, killing at least two people and injuring dozens more, officials say. Pictures posted on Twitter showed passengers jumping down the inflatable emergency slides and leaving the area, as plumes of smoke rise from the plane. Fire fighters and rescue teams are at the scene […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines, National Politics, State News, Top Stories, Yobe
Saturday, July 6th, 2013
At least 29 pupils and a teacher have been killed in a pre-dawn attack by suspected Islamists on a school in northeastern Nigeria, reports say. Eyewitnesses said some of the victims were burned alive in the attack, in Mamudo town, Yobe state. Dozens of schools have been burned in attacks by Islamists since 2010. Yobe […]
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Headlines, Lagos, Oyo, Top Stories
Friday, July 5th, 2013
President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday inaugurated the reconstruction of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, with a pledge that the N167bn project would be completed in 48 months. He inaugurated the project as thousands of road users were grounded for about three hours on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and Abeokuta-Ore-Benin Expressway. The road users were prevented from accessing the […]
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General Politics, Legislature, Senate, Top Stories
Friday, July 5th, 2013
In this interview with JOHN ALECHENU, Senator George Sekibo speaks about the lessons he has learnt in politics How do you describe your brand of politics? I think I ‘m a progressive because if you are a conservative, your people may not understand you well. When you are a progressive politician, they will know your […]
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Ernest Shonekan (1993), General Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Presidency, Rivers, State News, Top Stories
Friday, July 5th, 2013
The Presidency on Friday said Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, was free to resign from the Peoples Democratic Party, if he was no longer ready to respect President Goodluck Jonathan and the leadership of the party. PDP leaders in Rivers State led by Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike, and a former governor of […]
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Headlines, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers, State News, Top Stories
Thursday, July 4th, 2013
LEADERS and elders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State, on Thursday, met with President Goodluck Jonathan at the State House, Abuja, on a solidarity visit. Among the delegation were the acting deputy national chairman of the party, Chibudom Nwuche; state chairman; Chief Felix Obuah; former governor of Rivers State, Dr Peter Odili; […]
