In what appears as a contradiction of a ceasefire deal announced last week by Special Duties Minister, Kabiru Turaki, President Goodluck Jonathan has denied any peace deal between the Federal Government and the Boko Haram islamist sect. Jonathan, who disclosed this in an interview broadcast by Cable Network News, CNN on Friday said his administration…
Residents of the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State are now living in palpable fear due to the constant bloody clashes between the members of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and the Association of Igbo Youths Organization (AIYO). Notable human rights groups and prominent individuals in the East have…
Women lawyers in Nigeria under the aegis of International Federation of Women Lawyers, have expressed dissatisfaction with the resolution passed by the Senate to retain the provision of section 29 (4) (b) of the 1999 Constitution. Under the section, a married underage girl is deemed to be an adult. But FIDA in a statement issued…
The Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Dr. Emeka Anyaoku yesterday absolved Nigeria of any wrong doing for refusing to arrest the Sudanese President, Omar Al-Bashir,
A British national has been kidnapped by gunmen shortly after landing at the international airport in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, a diplomat and a private security source told AFP Friday. “There was a kidnapping of a Briton and we are working with the Nigerian authorities,” said Wale Adebayo, spokesman at the Deputy High Commission in…
Dr. Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosumu, a former Nigeria’s ambassador to the Netherlands and Executive Director of Obafemi Awolowo Foundation, shares her experience in this interview with ADEOLA BALOGUN Somebody would think you would be more interested in politics than in the Obafemi Awolowo Foundation, why are you not in politics? Because if I go into politics, the…
Murder is a crime many people seek justice for. They crave for the day when a tooth will be pulled for a tooth and an eye for an eye. As great their eagerness for justice is, so is their aversion to its miscarriage? When the duo of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha and Alhaji Lateef Shofolahan were…
Wife of the Ekiti State governor, Mrs. Bisi Fayemi, yesterday condemned the Senate for voting to amend the aspect of the constitution forbidding underage marriage. Fayemi, who said the move was inimical to the growth and liberation of the female gender, urged the womenfolk to rise against the development, saying the need to press for…
The Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Maiduguri, Emmanuel Kana Mani, has called on former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, to retire from active politics and join the revered league of former Nigerian leaders. In a statement made available to journalists yesterday in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, Bishop Mani asked Buhari to abide…
A 54-year-old blind man, his daughters and others have been arrested in Anambra state for “running a baby factory.” Operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) arrested Geoffrey Okoli who hails from Aguata local government area but failed to apprehend another suspect one Catherine Eze, alleged to be the brain behind the sale of the…