NIGER DELTA youth leaders, yesterday, described the recent call by a Northern leader, Mr. Junaid Muhammed, for a reduction of the current 13 per cent derivation to five per cent, scrapping of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, and Ministry of Niger Delta, as an invitation to war. The youth leaders, Austin Ozobo, National President…
A group of Canadian activists yesterday evening came together in Ottawa in an information session to promote awareness of the plight of the 230 still-missing schoolgirls kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram in Nigeria, and to call on the Nigerian government to act more responsibly. A spokesman of one of the groups at the…
Contrary to the claims in some quarters, the people in the video released yesterday by Boko Haram terrorists
A prominent member of the National Conference, Sen. Femi Okurounmu, yesterday caused a stir when he claimed former President Olusegun Obasanjo was rigged into office in 1999 by those he called “powers that be”.He alleged Obasanjo did not win the poll. Okurounmu, who is one of the delegates representing South-West at the ongoing conference, released…
Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State has again opposed the move by President Goodluck Jonathan to further extend the state of emergency currently in force in his state and two others in the North-East. Nyako’s opposition followed Jonathan’s request to the National Assembly to grant him power to further elongate emergency rule for six more…
FORMER governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2011 gubernatorial election in Edo State, Major General Charles Airhiavbere (rtd), has said that no amount of distraction or intimidation from the Boko Haram insurgents or any other group can stop President Goodluck Jonathan from seeking re-election in the 2015 general elections.General Airhiavbere, who is…
Former Nigeria’s President, Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, condemned the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls in Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State. Obasanjo spoke in Dutse, the Jigawa State capital during the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with the state government on the adoption of a junior secondary school and a primary school…
The Nigerian Government this afternoon swiftly rejected the condition set by Boko Haram terrorists for the release of the over 200 teenage girls it abducted from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, in the night of April 14. Boko Haram Abubakar Shekau had in a video released earlier today by French news agency, Agence…
After seven hours of closed-door deliberations today, the Committee on Devolution of Power emerged without a decision on the twin issues of resource control and derivation principle at the on-going National Conference in Abuja. The committee could equally not resolve the argument and counter argument by some delegates from different geo-political zones that the onshore-offshore…
Justice James Tsoho of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Monday stopped the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRCN) from further investigation of the suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. Specifically, the court held that the FRCN which had earlier indicted the suspended CBN governor, lacks the…