President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday in Abuja urged ambassadors serving in Nigeria to do their best to convey the positive realities of the country to the world.Speaking at an audience with the outgoing Italian Ambassador, Mr. Roberto Colamine, President Jonathan said that by doing so, the envoys will help immensely in correcting current misconceptions and adverse…
NORTHERN opposition to President Goodluck Jonathan’s second term ambition was yesterday fragmented with the emergence of a new group of elders supportive of the president and his policies towards the region.The Northern Elders Council, NEC led by elder-statesman and Second Republic Presidential Adviser, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, which was inaugurated in Kaduna by Governor Mukthar Yero…
Second Republic lawmaker, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, yesterday, dismissed as non-existent northern groups parading themselves as the major political platforms whose support President Goodluck Jonathan needed to win the 2015 election.Mohammed, who was reacting to the inauguration of the Northern Elders Council, NEC, in Kaduna on Thursday, described the group as alien to the political history…
Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah has said that the proposed National Conference scheduled to begin next month will not achieve any tangible thing for the people of Nigeria. Speaking to Hausa Service of the BBC, monitored in Abuja, the cleric said that the proposed conference would not be an avenue to tackle …
The president of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, is currently being interrogated at the headquarters of the State Security Service in Abuja. Dokubo was invited by the SSS, following his alleged inflammatory statements in connection to the 2015 election, in which he stressed in unequivocal terms that there will be bloodshed, if…
The Muslims Rights Concern (MURIC) on Wednesday advised the leader of the out-lawed Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Asari Dokubo, to stop heating up the polity by making unguarded statements. Dokubo had on Tuesday reiterated that his kinsmen in the oil-rich Niger Delta would foment trouble if President Goodluck Jonathan failed to secure second term…
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said the Defence and Service Chiefs have a tough time ahead unless the Boko Haram war is won.Decorating them with their new ranks at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Jonathan said he did not know whether to congratulate them or not because of the circumstances of the moment.The military chiefs, he…
The oil spill in Bonga occurred in December 2011.The National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, NOSDRA, has imposed a $5 billion dollars (about N800 billion) fine on Shell Petroleum and Development Company, SPDC, for the 2011 Bonga oil spill incident.The Director-General, Peter Idabor, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria…
Nigeria’s Chief of Defense Staff (CDS), Air Marshal Alex Sabundu Badeh, has clarified his controversial statement on the fight against the Boko Haram insurgency.Badeh had on January 20, stated that the security situation in the northeast would be brought to a halt before April 2014.The statement, which was widely reported generated massive reactions from citizens,…
Hell was let loose on Monday evening in Aba, Abia state as more than fiftysoldiers invaded the Aba Area Command of the Police threatening to burndown the station if they did not produce a policeman who allegedly slappedtheir colleague. Trouble started when a policeman in company of his pregnant wife who isalso a police officer, rammed…