Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday stated that Niger Delta amnesty programme influenced insurgency in the north east, describing the programme is a failure. Obasanjo also stated that Jonathan’s administration’s approach to curbing the activities of the militants “had taken the form of throwing money at the problem, particularly stuffing the pockets and bank of the…
The burial of the late Dr Ifeanyichukwu Nwobodo, the first son of former civilian governor of old Anambra State, Chief Jim Ifeanyichukwu Nwobodo, scheduled to hold yesterday in Enugu State was aborted following the disappearance of the deceased’s corpse, LEADERSHIP Weekend gathered. It was gathered that the two younger brothers of the deceased (Chukwudi and…
Police authorities are set to restore the security details of the speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, weeks after it was withdrawn in the wake of his defection from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress. Reports from the Police headquarters in Abuja indicate that the Police is hinging its decision…
Members of the #BringBackOurGirls (BBOG) advocacy will be writing a letter to the President of Chad, President Idriss Deby, concerning the whereabouts of the Chibok girls. The group said it would be writing to him with the hope of getting answers to the whereabouts of the girls and the status of the purported negotiations brokered…
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri The Federal Government, yesterday, described the N100million demand by Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche, the alleged mastermind of the April 14 bomb blast that killed over 75 persons and wounded 100 others at a crowded motor park in Nyanya Abuja, as a big joke. Consequently, the government sought an outright dismissal of the fundamental…
Ejiofor Alike The federal government and the oil and gas producing companies may have lost an estimated $11.5billion to the drop in the price of Brent crude oil from $115 per barrel in June to $68.62 yesterday, THISDAY has learnt. With Nigeria producing about 2.4 million barrels per day and exporting 2.2 million barrels per…
Since he escaped into the US in 1996 during the gestapo regime of the maximum ruler Sani Abacha who hanged his mentor Ken Saro-Wiwa, Anslem Dornu Bari John-Miller has used his Chicago based Council of Ogoni Professionals (COP) as the Diaspora wing of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP). The COP President…
with Yemi Adebowale Dear sir, I hope this letter meets you in good health. May the good Lord continue to give you good health and long life to witness the Nigeria of your dream. I wasn’t too sure if I would be allowed into your fortress in Ota; this is why I have chosen this…
The Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayo Fayose, flayed former President Olusegun Obasanjo for allegedly criticising Jonathan’s administration on corruption and insecurity. Fayose, who spoke at a summit in Ife, said that Obasanjo had no moral justification to criticise Jonathan’s administration because the former President’s government was far more corrupt than the one he criticised. The…
The Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba, who is representing Cross River Central Senatorial District in this interview with SUNDAY ABORISADE defends criticisms against the Nigerian senate and the recent police invasion of the National Assembly Some Nigerians believe that the executive has been taking the federal parliament for a ride because of the passive nature of…