A group of Boko Haram militants on Friday attacked the 202 Army Battalion Barracks located in Bama, about 40 kilometers outside Maiduguri town, and killed several women and children.The Islamic sect, according to a source in the barracks, struck around 3am local time, firing heavy arms and ammunition.Our source, a soldier, said that troops of…
Apparently referring to Former President Olusegun Obasanjo who recently wrote a letter to President Gooluck Jonathan which is still generating reactions from Nigerians, the apex Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere has branded the ex-president a failed leader.The National Publicity Secretary of the group,
Senator Adegbenga Sefiu Kaka, a member of the All Progressive Congress (APC) representing Ogun East in the upper legislative chamber, has defended the appeal by his party to the National Assembly to impeach President Goodluck Jonathan. Kaka, a former deputy governor of Ogun State from 1999 to 2003 during the governorship of Chief Olusegun Osoba,…
Former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (rtd) and former Minister of Defence, Gen Theophilus Danjuma (rtd), have berated former president Olusegun Obasanjo over his open letter to President Goodluck Jonathan, describing it as being capable of breaching the peace in the country.The duo stated this yesterday at the 6th edition of the Abuja Festival…
Kingsley Ubani, 26, from Eziama Nsulu in Isiala Ngwa North Local Government Area of Abi, has admitted selling his three-year-old son to raise money to bury his father.Mr. Ubani said this on Thursday in Umuahia when the Abia State Police Command paraded two child trafficking suspects and 19 pregnant young ladies.He said that he sold…
West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) released November/December 2013 result, Only 86,612 ( 29.17 per cent) out of the 296,827 candidates that sat for the November/December 2013 made the minimum benchmark of credits in five subjects including English and Mathematics.Mr. Charles Eguridu announced the result on Thursday at the council’s headquarters in Yaba, Lagos,…
The Afenifere, a Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, on Friday called on President Goodluck Jonathan to faithfully implement the agenda of the proposed national conference.The group led by its National Chairman, Chief Reuben Fasoranti and the Ondo State governor, Olusegun Mimiko, made the call at a meeting with the President at the State House.Addressing State House correspondents…
The Bureau of Public Enterprise, on Friday in Abuja announced that President Goodluck Jonathan had approved the privatisation of the nation’s four refineries.This is contained in a statement signed by the Head of Public Communications of BPE, Mr Chigbo Anichebe.It quotes the President as saying that privatisation of the refineries was in keeping with the…
Clark-OBJ-300x300Former Federal Commissioner of Information and elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to reply and address the allegations contained in a letter former President Olusegun Obasanjo wrote to him in the national interest.Clark, who was speaking with journalists at the Nigeria Centenary Lecture in London on Tuesday, said that the allegations,…
Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday stopped the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, the Senate President David Mark, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from declaring their seats vacant when they eventually defect to another political party.The…