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Biafran struggle still on —Uwazuruike

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Top Stories Saturday, January 29th, 2011

Leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, has said that the struggle for the state of Biafra is still on. He said that his group will keep pressing for the state of Biafra until this is achieved, revealing that MASSOB has built an estate for […]

Boko Haram kills Borno ANPP guber candidate, 6 others

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Top Stories Friday, January 28th, 2011

Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, was thrown into chaos yesterday afternoon following the killing of the governorship candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Modu Fanami Gubio, the younger brother of Gov Ali Modu Sheriff and five others by unknown gunmen. Saturday Sun gathered that Gubio, who was on his way to his father’s […]

Jonathan appoints Ojukwu’s wife, others special assistants

Posted by admin Presidency, Top Stories Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the appointment of Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu as senior special assistant, Diaspora Affairs. Jonathan also appointed Mr. Kingsley K. Kuku as special adviser, Niger Delta Affairs, Dr. Zakari Ibrahim, coordinator, Anti-Terrorism; Oyewole Olugbenga Leke, senior special assistant, Maritime Services. The statement signed by the Special Adviser to the President, Media and […]

Uche Okafor was murdered – FBI

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports, Top Stories Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

The Federal Bureau of Investigation believes former Super Eagles defender Uche Okafor was murdered. On Tuesday the FBI said the former Kansas City Wizards player, who was found dead in an upstairs hallway in his United States home on January 7, might not have killed himself as believed. His family and the Nigerian community in […]

INEC discovers four centres inside thick forest

Posted by admin Elections 2011, Top Stories Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

The Independent National Electoral Commission has discovered four voter registration centres in a thick forest in Anambra State. The centres were found six kilometres deep into the Nziko forest at Nteje, Oyi Local Government Area. The Resident Electoral Commissioner, Prof. Chukwuemeka Onukogu, led a team that included the state’s Deputy Governor, Mr. Emeka Sibeudu, to […]

Wikileak Cables: ‘Aides hid Yar’Adua’s illness with stuffed clothes, makeup’

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Presidency, Top Stories, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (2007-10) Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

Controversial whistleblower website, WikiLeaks, has claimed that aides of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua stuffed his clothes to hide his weight loss during the peak of illness. WikiLeaks, in some United States diplomatic cables it released on Saturday night, also disclosed that makeup was used to cover the signs and symptoms of illness on his […]

Classless Atiku – We’ll ruin PDP –Atiku’s man on why they won’t leave party

Posted by admin Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Top Stories Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

•Atiku Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section The chairman of Katsina State PDP Concerned Elders’ Forum, Aliyu Sani, says the decision of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar not to challenge the outcome of the party’s convention reflects the ugly reality of the situation in the party. He lamented that the usurpers in […]

Jonathan manipulated PDP to get ticket — Waku

Posted by admin General Politics, Top Stories Friday, January 21st, 2011

Senator Joseph Kennedy Waku is a founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who represented Benue North/West senatorial district between 1999 and 2003 in the Senate. In this thought-provoking interview with Saturday Sun, Waku takes a look at the just-concluded primary elections of the PDP and concluded that President Goodluck Jonathan stole victory at […]

Ojukwu leaves intensive care-Returns home soon

Posted by admin Top Stories Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Tension over the state of health of the first Nigerian graduate soldier and ex-Biafran warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu was yesterday doused by Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State who said the Ikemba Nnewi was doing very well at a United Kingdom hospital. Obi, who just returned to the state from the UK told newsmen […]

Anti-Jonathan Protests in Katsina, Bauchi

Posted by admin Bauchi, Katsina, State News, Top Stories Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Hundred of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members in Katsina State took to the streets protesting the emergence of President Goodluck Jonathan as the PDP presidential candidate during the just concluded party presidential primary. The protesting members of the party also burnt over 40, 0000 PDP membership cards, stating that they have dumped the party because […]