The Federal Government is “playing to the media and not the problem” in its approach to the al Qaeda-linked insurgent group Boko Haram,former Abia State Governor Orji Uzor Kalu has said.Kalu is calling for direct talks with Boko Haram militants, who have killed thousands of Nigerians since 2009, and he has offered to be an…
{mp3}5_June_2013{/mp3}
The British government has promised to support Nigeria’s move to secure a permanent seat at the United Nations (UN), especially for being a stabilising force in Africa.The British government reiterated its commitment to building and strengthening its relationship with Nigeria.The British High Commissioner in Nigeria, Mr. Andrea Pocock, who gave the hint yesterday during a…
The Senate Committee on Constitutional Review yesterday said that out of the 61 requests it received from new state agitators, none of them fulfilled the constitutional requirements provided for state creation as enshrined in Section 81 of the 1999 Constitution.Consequently, the committee has turned down the requests for additional states creation.Chairman of the committee and…
The Senate Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution on Wednesday presented its amendment bill detailing the contents of the third alteration to the nation’s foremost document.Highlights of the bill are the rejection of proposal for state police; abolition of states/Local Governments Joint Accounts; adoption of a single six-year tenure for President and governors…
Natives of the ceded Bakassi Peninsular are demanding $200bn from the Nigerian and Cameroonian governments as damages for the alleged neglect and killings of their relatives.They also sent an appeal to the United Nations Security Council to take over the territory on trusteeship in order to prepare it for self-determination.
Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State on Wednesday ordered the closure of Anambra State University after a student demonstration paralysed activities at the Igbariam campus of the university.Students had poured into the streets on Wednesday morning after gunmen, suspected to be armed robbers, killed a female student on Tuesday.
Imo State Deputy Governor, Chief Eze Madumere, has said his boss, the Governor of the state, Chief Rochas Okorocha, has presidential ambition in 2015.Madumere said there was no reason for him or his boss to deny the presidential ambition, adding that the public was aware of it.The deputy governor, who spoke with reporters in Abuja…
The North on Wednesday disagreed with the National Assembly on the proscription of two Islamic miltant groups – Boko Haram and Ansaru–by President Goodluck Jonathan.While the North through its two prominent groups, the Arewa Consultative Forum and the Northern Elders Forum, faulted the ban, the National Assembly insisted that it was a welcome development.
The United States has issued fresh travel alert on Nigeria, warning its citizens not to travel to North and nine other states in South.The US predicated the alert on the emergency rule in Yobe, Adamawa and Borno states, saying extremists could expand their operations beyond the three states to other parts of the country.“The ability …