The alleged resolve by majority of the governors of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to remove the embattled National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, forced the Presidency to suspend the meeting of the Board of Trustees (BoT) and National Executive Committee, NEC, Sunday Vanguard has learnt. It also emerged that President Goodluck Jonathan…
In terms of power politics, this year promises to be action packed. Already, the main actors have been working some political permutations. How these will endure is what most sideline spectators will be looking forward to in the months ahead. It can only get more exciting as the nation inches towards the next general election.In…
Primate Babatunde Elijah Ayodele is the founder of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Oke-Afa, Isolo, Lagos. Renowned as a seer, he tells KEHINDE OYETIMI, in this interview, some of the occurrences Nigerians should expect in 2014 and in the nearest future.ADVERTISEMENT MANY people only know you as a prophet but few know your background. Can you…
A former Senator representing Ebonyi North, Anthony Agbo, yesterday urged the federal government to enter into deeper security collaboration with the United States and Israel to win the war against insurgency in the north. He spoke in Abakaliki with reporters. Agbo said such pact will enable security agencies to gain access to intelligence and infrastructure…
THERE is unlikely to be any let up in the mutual animosity between the House of Representatives and the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in 2007 general elections and currently Special Project Director in the office of Delta State Governor, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, says Professor Ango Abdullahi and his northern associates threat of war should President Goodluck Jonathan contest in 2015 will not stop the president from contesting. Onuesoke, in a press…
There appears to be a major crack in northern solidarity against President Goodluck Jonathan’s supposed ambition to contest the 2015 elections as over 50 top politicians including former governors, ministers and senators from seven northern states met in Kaduna State weekend to strategise on how to neutralise the opposition All Progressive Congress, APC, in the…
AS the PeoplesDemocratic Party (PDP) meets next week to put its house in order, opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) is deepening its agenda to wrest power from the ruling party. Investigation by the Saturday Tribune revealed that the opposition is focusing on areas likely to weaken it in the 2015 presidential poll, such as the…
Boko Haram insurgents yesterday invaded Kayamula Village of Konduga Local Government Area of Borno State, killing no fewer than nine people. Several other people sustained gunshot injuries in the attack. Kayamula Village is on the outskirt of Maiduguri metropolis and is located about ten kilometers away from Giwa Military Barracks where several members of the…
The Onitsha Federal Prisons which was originally meant to accommodate 326 inmates now has 793 inmates or 467 more inmates.