The Bishop of Lagos, Anglican Communion, Rev. Adebayo Akinde, has decried the high rate of evil in the country and warned judges not to deprive the poor and the vulnerable of justice.Akinde spoke yesterday at a special church service held at the Christ Cathedral, Marina, Lagos, to mark the commencement of 2013/2014 legal year in…
President Goodluck Jonathan Monday in New York called for a stronger global consensus and determination to end the scourge of terrorism as quickly as possible. Speaking with President Barrack Obama of the United States ahead of the opening of the 68th session of the United Nations tomorrow, President Jonathan said that unless the international community…
ABUJA—AHEAD of October 7 meeting called by President Goodluck Jonathan with the seven aggrieved governors, the former acting National Chairman and head of the new Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, Alhaji Kawu Baraje Tukur, the national leadership of the party has concluded plans to drag former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and others before the disciplinary committee…
More daring revelations of the person who lodged in room 102 of Upper Class hotel, Onitsha demolished allegedly for harbouring kidnappers
No fewer than 40 condemned criminals who are of Benue State origin are on death row out of the 80 criminals awaiting the hangman’s noose at the Federal Prisons, Jos in Plateau State. Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General of the state, Mr. Alex Adum, disclosed this at the weekend, during the accountability press briefing…
A frontline NGO has released details of the various government offices and officials, as well as other organisations through which Nigeria is being milked dry by about 5% of her estimated 170 million populations while the greater majority wallows in poverty and misery. In the third of series of reports focusing on the rot in…
The death toll in suspected Boko Haram’s latest attack at Benisheik in Borno State has risen to 142. During the attack, the suspected insurgents dressed as soldiers, mounted checkpoints and shot travellers on a highway. “We recovered 55 bodies on Wednesday and 87 on Thursday,” Abdulaziz Kolomi, an official of the Environmental Protection Agency in…
FOLLOWING indications of a total collapse of the ongoing peace talks between the presidency and aggrieved governors of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) under the aegis of New PDP, the mainstream PDP was said to have prepared its war team in the affected G7 states. Investigations by the Nigerian Tribune confirmed that the mainstream PDP,…
Pioneer chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, returned yesterday to the Southwark Crown Court, London where he was crossexamined by lawyers for former governor James Ibori of Delta State. Ribadu also expressed the belief that Ibori was receiving police undue protection in the era of former Inspector- General, Mike…
The death toll from last week’s attack in Borno State that saw insurgents dressed as soldiers, set up checkpoints and gun down travellers on a highway, has risen to, at least, 142. Abdulaziz Kolomi, an official with the Environmental Protection Agency in the state said, yesterday, that “we recovered 55 bodies on Wednesday and 87…