The Special Task force (STF), Operation Save Haven, said the command has uncovered plans by groups in the state to carry out massive attack on worship places, homes and settlements within Jos, the Plateau State capital. Commander of the STF, Brigadier General Hassan Umoru revealed this to journalists in his office yesterday. According the commander, […]
While some people applauded the federal government over the plea bargain option in the celebrated Halliburton bribery scandal, others have strongly criticised it. In this interview, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC), Farida Waziri explains why the federal government opted for the deal. She also opens up on other issues of […]
A former Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, has reacted to the Wikileaks exposure of US diplomatic cable of plans by the former United States Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, to remove him from the United Nations assignment in Myanmar. According to Empowered Newswire, Gambari said that though the cable was dated October 2008, […]
OUTRAGED by the claim of a terrorist group that claimed responsiblity for the Jos mayhem, the Nigerian Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, headed by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, the Council of Ulama in Jos, the Ja’amatu Nasril Islam, JNI, and other Islamic groups in the country, yesterday, dismissed the group’s […]
CRISIS reverberated in two communities in Rivers State and left six people dead on Tuesday with about 20 houses said to have been burnt in the process. This is just as two youths, in a confrontation with members of the Special Task Force (STF), were shot in Jos, the Plateau State capital. The six people […]
FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Monday, slumped during a church service to mark the 70th birthday of one of his associates, General Olu Bajowa. The former president was said to have slumped during the service that took place at the St. Stephens Anglican Church, Igbotako, in Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State. Nigerian Tribune […]
IT is Christmas season again and all the cities and neighbourhoods are bubbling with activities. The most common of the activities is carnivals. In Lagos Island, the Offin, Olowogbowo and Fanty carnivals have become the benchmark for other carnivals. In Ibadan do not be fazed when you learn of Mokland and Falkland carnivals. They are […]
A group of young men numbering about 60 that claimed to be ex-militants from Bayelsa State, yesterday, attacked the Abuja headquarters of the Presidential Amnesty Office. According to the group, it was protesting their non-inclusion in the benefits of the amnesty programme, especially the N65,000 stipend and feeding allowance paid to their colleagues on a […]
THE Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta is considering a final push to rid the Niger Delta of impenitent militants, especially the leader of the Niger Delta Liberation Force, ‘General’ John Togo, The Nation has gathered. It was learnt that the task force was only awaiting a final nod from the Defence Headquarters, Abuja, […]
AS 2011 general election draws near, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega has warned political gladiators to be mindful of actions capable of sabotaging the efforts of his commission to bequeath to the nation credible elections. Professor Jega gave the warning on Thursday, when he paid a working visit […]
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