The 20th Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, could easily be mistaken for an ordinary man when one hears him speak. He cracks jokes freely and takes special interest in making you feel that he is just one of you. But the Sultan is also a practical man as he does not hide […]
The abducted father of Chelsea and Nigerian star, John Mikel Obi, has been found alive in Kano, Nigeria. Michael Obi was last seen on August 12, 2011 in the city of Jos, where his car was found last Wednesday. The Obi senior told BBC that he was kidnapped in Jos before being transferred to Kano. […]
Shortly before the swearing in of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the Minister of Finance, President Goodluck Jonathan threatened to sack any minister that failed to cooperate with her. Investigations by SUNDAY PUNCH showed that the president met with the ministers behind closed-doors last week before the inauguration of the former World Bank Managing Director as […]
The current face-off between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and former military President Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida has been generating mixed feelings among eminent leaders. Where some of them see it as a ripe time for the government of the day to launch into the much demanded probe of failed past administrations of this country, others brush […]
THOUSANDS have fled the Ikarama community, Bayelsa state following an inferno triggered by an oil spill from a Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) pipeline. No fewer than 100 houses were also burnt by the fire, which has compounded the problems arising from the spill. Saturday Tribune gathered that the damage could have been worse, but […]
Former Chief of General Staff (CGS) and military Vice-President under the regime of General Ibrahim Babangida, Admiral Augustus Aikhomu, is dead, aged 72. A personal aide to the ex-CGS, Mr. Clement Iriata, a lawyer, confirmed Aikhomu’s death, yesterday. He was said to have passed on at a Lagos hospital after a prolonged illness. In a […]
This news from Germany is really disturbing. Why is it that our leaders make us laughing objects before the international community and they will turn around to accuse us, the poor and voiceless masses? This accusation from “The Voice Baden Württemberg” in Germany that most Nigerian refugees are deported without proper identification or procedure is […]
A deadly explosion was yesterday averted by the police in Borno when a 25-year-old suicide bomber with heavily wired Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) was gunned down by policemen at the entrance of the state headquarters of the police in Maiduguri. The bomber had defiled attempts to check his Honda Accord car at the command’s gate […]
ABUJA— NOTWITHSTANDING the spate of criticisms that greeted the plan by the presidency to send a bill containing a single term proposal for president and governors to the National Assembly, it emerged, yesterday, that President Goodluck Jonathan is not about to jettison the plan. Those wishing that the idea would be dumped have therefore been […]
The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has asked the Presidential Election Tribunal to enter judgment in favour of its presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari on the grounds that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has flouted the order of the tribunal directing it to allow the party to inspect the materials used for the April […]
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