Barring any last-minute change in plan, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will, at its National Executive Committee meeting on Monday (today), ratify a former governor of Bauchi state, Adamu Muazu, as its new national chairman, party and presidency sources have said.The usually reliable sources told PREMIUM TIMES early Monday morning that Mr. Muazu emerged…
Maiduguri (Nigeria): Villagers and police say that more than 15 people have died in attacks by militants in northeast Nigerian villages and hundreds have fled their homes for safety.Borno state police spokesman Gideon Jibrin said at least seven people were shot dead and three others drowned while fleeing Thursday when gunmen believed to be Boko…
The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Hassan Kukah, on Monday said that he felt more secure in Sokoto than in any other part of the country.Kukah made the assertion in Sokoto during a media round table.“Sokoto is the most peaceful state where Christians and Muslims stay with one another peacefully”, he said.He said that…
Indications emerged on Friday that President’s choice of General Kenneth Minimah, as the new Chief of Army Staff may have been informed by the need to intensify the campaign against the insurgency in the north-eastern part of the country.Investigations by SUNDAY PUNCH showed that Minimah belonged to fighting corp of the army as an infantry…
A former Minister of Education and Vice-President of the World Bank, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, has said the greatest failure of the regimes in the current democratic dispensation, including that of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, has been military approach to developmental issues.Obasanjo, Nigeria’s former Head of State, handed over to Alhaji Shehu Shagari in 1979.The retired General…
The Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, yesterday slammed political leaders from Anambra State, accusing them of cash and carry politics which had sabotaged the efforts of Ndigbo in achieving the age long ambition of producing the President of the nation.Okorocha stated this at the inauguration of the Southeast interim executive committee of the All Progressive…
The immediate Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika (retd.) on Sunday carpeted members of the Northern Elders Forum for vowing to drag him and six others to the International Criminal Court of Justice in the Hague over their alleged role in last year’s violence in Bama, and Giwa Barracks all in Borno State while…
President of Christian Welfare Initiative (CWI), who doubles as the chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), South-west Zone, Archbishop Magnus Atilade, had recently urged Christians to join in the 31-day fasting and prayers programme for the persecuted Church in Nigeria which started on January 14, noting that denominations/ministries which had begun fasting and…
Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State on Saturday said three presidents had at different occasions attempted to lure him to join the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, but that he declined their overtures.He, however, mentioned only two of them – Olusegun Obasanjo and the late Umaru Yar’Adua.President Goodluck Jonathan is the third president under the…
The Supreme Court on Friday in Abuja dismissed an appeal filed by Mohammed Abacha, son of late former Head of State, General Sani Abacha, against his prosecution for corruption.The apex court in a unanimous judgment led by Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, therefore, ordered Abacha to return to an Abuja High Court and face criminal charges bordering…