By JULIANA TAIWO-OBALONYE, ABUJA •Jonathan also honours taxi driver, traffic warden, State House cook At last, honour has come the way of Pa Michael Akinkunmi, the designer of the national flag. President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday ordered the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, to place him on the salary…
By EMMANUEL UZOR, Onitsha Three people yesterday lost their lives, while 30 others sustained various degrees of injuries yesterday when a gas laden tanker reportedly had a brake failure on Nkpor Bridge in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State and hit the protector pillars before bursting into flame. It was gathered that the ill-fated…
by Fidelis Soriwei and Ade AdesomojuAnother set of 60 soldiers are to be arraigned before a General Court Martial by military authorities in Abuja on Tuesday (today) for mutiny.The soldiers allegedly committed mutiny on August 4, 2014 by refusing to join troops in Maiduguri for “an operation.”Their arraignment which is to take place at the…
By Geoffrey Anyanwu, Awka… As South-East govs, others shun Igbo Day Apex Igbo organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo yesterday vowed that the South East would produce the next leader of the country after President Gooodluck Jonathan’s second term.Ohanaeze’s position came just as governors of the South-East geo-political zone and other prominent sons and daughters of Igbo land…
Awka – The Igbo World Assembly (IWA), an umbrella of all Igbo-speaking people in the Diaspora, has called for the conduct of a credible census in Nigeria.The President of the assembly, Dr Nwachukwu Anakwenze, made the call on Sunday at the IWA Convention and Ohaneze Ndi-igbo Day in Awka.The theme of the convention was entitled…
LAGOS—No fewer than 300 Boko Haram fighters have surrendered in Nigeria’s neighbouring country Cameroon in the past three weeks, Cameroon’s defense ministry has said.Cameroon’s defence Spokesman Lt. Col. Didier Badjeck told The Associated Press that the militants have given up their arms and asked for asylum in Cameroon. Their fate has not been decided.Fighters from…
The 305 idiotic animals that got stupid Jonathan’s shameful award for a dying zoo today:: |:: 305 Nigerians get national awards todayTuesday, September 30, 2014 12:21 AMWale AkinselureEXACTLY 305 Nigerians, including the Accountant-General of the Federation, Mr Jonah Ogunniyi Otunla; Mr Jimoh Ibrahim; the Soun of Ogbomosho, Oba Jimoh Oyewumi; the Olugbo of Ugbonla, Oba…
THE Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Rules and Business, Honourable Albert Sam-Tsokwa, at the weekend, lambasted those who are attacking the House over killing of the motion on controversial $9.3 million allegedly smuggled into South Africa by two Nigerians and an Israeli to buy arms for security agencies in the country. He…
By PETRUS OBI, ENUGU Three students of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT, Agbani, were shot and injured Friday night, when suspected armed bandits invaded their hostel. The injured students are currently undergoing surgery at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu where they were taken to in the early…
By NGOZI UWUJARE Did 32-year-old Chinedu Nweke kill 45-year-old Philomina Nwega, a native of Ebuku Ndieze Amudda in Umuzeoka village, Ezza North Local Government Area, Ebonyi State, to avenge the serial rape of his wife by men in the murdered woman’s village, as he claims? That is the big question that the…