ON a day that the Adamawa State House of Assembly served Governor Murtala Nyako and his deputy impeachment notices, Vanguard gathered yesterday that there are plots to impeach Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State. Both governors are of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Sources said, yesterday, that the fresh plot, being coordinated by a serving…
The Adamawa State House of Assembly yesterday continued of its probe into the utilisation of public accounts of the state and unanimously agreed to serve Governor Murtala Nyako and his deputy, Bala James Ngillari, an impeachment notice. This followed the discovery of alleged corrupt practices involving billions of naira in the administration. Member representing Numan…
Yenagoa—Angry indigenes of Okoroba community in Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State,
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) this morning expressed “serious concern” over Sunday’s arrest, by men of the Nigerian Army in Abia State, of 486 northerners described as suspected terrorists. The Defence Headquarters in Abuja late yesterday said that a Boko Haram kingpin who had been declared wanted had been found among the suspects. That notwithstanding,…
The Defence Headquarters said yesterday that a wanted terror suspect was among the 486. It also said other security agencies and para-military organisations had joined the ongoing screening of the suspects. The Director of Defence Information, Gen. Chris Olukolade, in a statement last night in Abuja, said: “A terror kingpin on the list of wanted…
Former Vice-President and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has appealed to the aggrieved members to remain loyal to the party “as there is reward for loyalty”. Top leaders of the party, including former Borno State governor, Modu Sheriff; Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi and Chief Tom Ikimi have expressed misgiving…
Niger Delta representatives at the on-going National Conference have been charged to insist on a 50 percent
Leader of the South- South delegates to the ongoing National Conference, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday, dissociated the region from a document insisting on self determination,total resource control for the oil-rich area. He said the zone did not know the source of the document and it did not represent the stand of leaders and residents of…
An explosion has hit northern Nigeria’s Yobe state at a venue televising a World Cup football match, residents and security officials say. The blast hit Damaturu town at about 20:00 local time (19:00 GMT), reports said. There were reports of casualties being brought into hospitals, but it is not clear if there were any deaths.…
National Conference Committee on Transportation yesterday advocated the urgent completion of the Ajaokuta Steel Company as a way of removing the nation’s economy from the woods. Presenting the report and recommendations of the committee at the plenary, chairman of the committee, Senator Musa Adede, said what is required to complete the project is less than…