BOKO HARAM WILL DEFEAT NIGERIA AND EMERGE VICTORIOUS: If the US could not defeat militant Islam in Afghanistan how do you think a diseased corrupt zoo like Nigeria can. It is not too late to support Biafra now. Nigeria is finished and it will consume millions of lives…yours could be included unless you do something…
At least 23 persons including nine students and one examination official were yesterday killed by gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect in separate attacks in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The incidents came barely 24 hours after seven students and two teachers of Government Secondary School, Damaturu, the Yobe State…
The Federal Government yesterday withdrew charge against nine out of 15 Russians being tried before a Federal High Court in Lagos for illegal arms importation into the country last year. The Russians, who had all earlier been arraigned before Justice Okechukwu Okeke (now retired), are Myre Seadiver, Zhelyazkov Andrey, Savchenko Sergel, Chichkanov Vasily, Varlygin Igor,…
Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State yesterday presented 200 Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV) to all traditional rulers in the state. He said the gesture, which was free from any charge, was in recognition of the pivotal roles of traditional rulers in the state and the need to ensure they work in relative comfort for the…
The Ebonyi State Government yesterday shut over 700 private adult education centres in Abakaliki, the state capital. The government said it shut the schools because of their non-functionality. Addressing journalists in his office, the Commissioner for Education, Mr. Ndubuisi Chibueze-Agbo, said the government revoked the licences alleged to have been given to the private adult…
The Eze Ndigbo of Ibadanland and Oyo State, Dr. Alex Anozie, yesterday said the people of the South-East would support any political party that picks its presidential candidate from the region in 2015.
The President of the National Association of Imo State Students, Madumezim Chukwuma Lugard and his deputy, Progress Aaron, have been impeached for what was described as gross misconduct and abuse of office. The students’ leaders were impeached specifically for giving an award to the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chief Emeka Ihedioha.
Prominent Igbo personalities, including Anambra State governor, Peter Obi, who is the chairman of the South- East Governors’ Forum; Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha and the former Governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzo Kalu, are expected to lead the way forward for a peace summit aimed at restoring the lost glory of core Igbo…
Governor Rochas Okorocha’s convoy was attacked yesterday in Oguta Council Area of the state by youths allegedly recruited by a candidate for the rescheduled Imo House of Assembly elections scheduled to hold next week.
ABUJA FORMER President of Ghana, Flt. Lt. Jerry Rawlings, Monday said if Nigeria and other parts of Africa must get it right and strengthen democracy, corrupt politicians must not be allowed to go scot-free. This came as former Interim Head of State, Chief Ernest Shonekan, declared that religious fundamentalism poses a serious threat to the…