Tension is rising at Orodo in Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State as the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and the police are spoiling for a bloody clash. This follows a threat by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of the area, Mr. Duru, to burn down…
The Speaker, House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, has said a revolution is due in Nigeria because of endemic corruption in the country, coupled with the general disaffection of the people with the ruling elite. He said the kind of conditions that must subsist in order for any talk of revolution to be taken seriously…
As tension continues to mount in the aftermath of last Saturday’s Oguta re-run election, Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has called on INEC to release the result. He however stated that the APGA candidate in the election, Hon Walter Uzonwanne won about 9,000 votes plus, defeating PDP candidate, Hon Eugene Dibiagwu. Okorocha who spoke…
Following the released list of Interim Officers of the yet-to-be-registered All Progressives Congress, APC, indications are clear that the camp of the former Governor of Imo State, Chief Achike Udenwa, within the ACN has lost out completely in the composition of the Party’s National Executive Council NEC. Information available to us has it that no…
Eighteen soldiers, including a lieutenant, on Monday appeared before a General Court Martial in Jos, Plateau State for aiding members of the fundamentalist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, and other insurgent groups in their activities. The soldiers are members of the Joint Task Force code named Operation Restore Order in Borno State and the Special Task…
Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State on Monday gave out N733m to Catholic and Anglican churches to run their schools in the state. He said the money was for the rehabilitation of primary schools taken over by the state government in 1970 but returned to the missions in 2011. The governor, who made the donation…
THE Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People has declared that it will not accept anything less than the governorship position of Rivers State in 2015.
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday nullified the appointments of the nation’s security chiefs. Those affected by the judgement are the Chief of Defence Staff, Admiral Ola Saad Ibrahim; the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Azu-buike Ihejirika; Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh and the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice-Admiral Dele…
Gunmen yesterday shot dead two persons and used explosives to free 175 inmates in Akure, the Ondo State capital. The about 30 gunmen invaded the Olokuta Medium Security Prison, setting 175 inmates free.
Chairman, Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution on Security Challenges in the North, Tanimu Turaki, on Sunday ruled out any form of compensation for victims of the Boko Haram insurgency in some parts of the North. Addressing Muslim leaders, who gathered at the National Conference on the Role of Muslim Scholars, organised by the…