President Goodluck Jonathan and a former Minister of Defence, Lt.-Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd.), held a closed-door meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Sunday. The meeting, which a Presidency source described as one-on-one, came less than 24 hours after the media reported Danjuma to have said the country’s economy was in tatters. The source said…
Nigerians above age 18 years, who intend to travel to Britain may be forced to pay a deposit of £3,000 (N720,000) to obtain a six month visa, according to a new policy being considered by the government. According to a report yesterday in British newspaper, The Independent, the new immigration policy when enforced, would target…
Roadside shops by day, brothels at night. I can take on 20 men on a good day’. Pregnant hawkers charge N400, sell babies for N80,000 – N120,000 To the uninformed, Oba junction near Onitsha, which leads to Nnewi, the acclaimed ‘Japan of Africa’, along the Onitsha- Owerri expressway in Anambra State, is a mere stop-over…
The state of emergency declared in the North-Eastern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa by President Goodluck Jonathan has forced about 1,500 refugees into the northern part of Cameroon, Nigeria’s ambassador to that country has said.
Anarchy is looming in the polity as churches are determined to battle the Governor of Central Bank, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi over the freezing of the accounts
Fleeing members of the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram, on Thursday attacked a Mobile Police transit camp located in Limankara village, Borno State, killing many people. The pastor of a local church was said to be among those killed by the gunmen that attacked the village. The violent sect had last week killed 22 people…
The Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze, has renewed its call for the creation of at least one more state in the South-East geopolitical zone. The Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze, Mr. Tony Oganah, told SUNDAY PUNCH that the group had been in support of all applications for a new state in South-East, insisting that the National Assembly…
Former Minister of Defence, Lt. General Theophilus Danjuma (retd.), said on Saturday in Zaria, Kaduna State, that Nigerian leaders had failed the nation. Danjuma, who said this at his conferment with a traditional title of Jarma Zazzau by Emir of Zazzau, Shehu Idris, also lamented that the Nigerian nation and its economy were now in…
TRAGEDY struck in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital on Saturday, when a fire outbreak claimed the lives of a couple and their four children.
Ten people drowned and another 20 could not be unaccounted for after a boat carrying migrants from Nigeria, Benin and Burkina Faso sank off the coast of Gabon, a police official said on Friday. The boat had left Nigeria and was within 15 minutes of arriving in Gabon’s capital Libreville when it went down late…