Former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar has again expressed concern over the scary security situation in the North-east zone of the country, occasioned by incessant Boko Haram attacks. The former vice president yesterday cautioned against buck passing by the political class, as he noted that “ex-pending endless energy on hand-wringing and the trading of blame” would not…
There is an indication that the choice of who emerges as presidential candidate of the All
AS the National Conference gets underway, Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State has suggested that advocates of Nigeria’s partitioning should be stoned out of the venue of the dialogue.Yuguda, who spoke exclusively to Vanguard after being conferred with the African Achievers Award in Education Attainment in Accra, Ghana, stated that delegates to the conference should…
As the Federal Government honours 100 persons today with Centenary awards as part of Nigeria’s Centenary celebration, the families of late human rights activist, Chief Gani Fawehinmi and afrobeat king, Fela Anikulapo Kuti have rejected the post humous awards for both late Fawehinmi and Fela even as Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka also mulls rejecting…
The Supreme Igbo Security Council, a group committed to peace on Thursday said it would support President Goodluck Jonathan for second term if he indicated his interest. The President of the council, Mr Bobby Ukadike, made the declaration while addressing journalists in Abuja. He said that the North and South had had a fair share…
Constitutional lawyer, Prof. Ben Nwabueze yesterday in Enugu made public the Igbo position on the proposed
YOLA— WITH the nation yet to recover from the shock arising from the massacre of about 58 students of Federal Government College, Bunu Yadi, Yobe State and abduction of 16 female students by Boko Haram insurgents last Tuesday, the sect, yesterday, moved to Adamawa where it attacked two local government council areas which share common…
President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, challenged African leaders to come together to fight the menace of terrorism in the continent, noting that terrorism is undermining the development of the continent.President Jonathan’s remarks came on the day the French President, Francois Hollande and the British Prime Minister; David Cameron assured Nigeria and indeed Africa of their support…
Being a national broadcast by President Goodluck Jonathan on the centenary celebration, last night, I extend warm greetings and felicitations to all Nigerians as we celebrate our nation’s centenary, a significant milestone in our journey to Nationhood. One hundred years ago, on the 1st of January 1914, the British Colonial authorities amalgamated the Southern and…
The Senate Committee on Defence and Army yesterday directed the Chief of Army Staff to temporarily relocate to the 7th Division of the Nigerian Army, Maiduguri and take appropriate steps to quell the ongoing orgy of violence in the North East. The directive followed the unabated killings by the Boko Haram sect in Borno and…