President Goodluck Jonathan has been warned by his kinsmen under the auspices of the Forum of Past Youth Leaders of ethnic nationalities in the South South zone not to contest the 2015 general election, Vanguard reports. The ex-youth leaders threatened that if the President decided to go ahead and contest the 2015 general elections, he…
by Kayode Idowu The National Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday said that 400,000 persons had been internally displaced in the troubled North-eastern region of the country from January 2014 till date. Speaking to journalists in Maiduguri, Borno State capital, the information officer of the Northeast zonal office of the agency, AbdulKadir Ibrahim, said the number…
Says this is not time to criticise, but to join hands with FG to fight insurgency By Henry Umoru ABUJA — A group of Northern elders under the aegis, Northern Elders Council, NEC, yesterday, took a swipe at the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, for asking President Goodluck Jonathan to forget about contesting in…
by: Our Reporter Thousands of Nigerians fleeing Islamist militants are searching for sanctuary, say government and international relief officials. No thanks to the latest Boko Haram’s campaign to seize the Northeast. Gwoza, a town of about 50,000 near Nigeria’s remote border with Cameroon, is worse hit, reports Wall Street Journal Hundreds of thousands of Nigerians…
NORTHERN delegates to the national conference, on Tuesday, unanimously rejected the draft new constitution introduced by the leadership of the conference, describing it as a move to perfect third term agenda for President Goodluck Jonathan.The delegates, under the umbrella of Northern Delegates Forum (NDF), disowned the draft new constitution and emphatically dissociated themselves from…
By DOM EKPUNOBI, Onitsha No fewer than 40 houses were yesterday burnt by a mob, following a clash between Umusieme village in Nkpor and Ikenga village, Ogidi, both in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State. Daily Sun gathered that about 10 persons sustained bullet wounds, following gunshots in the area. Sources stated that…
Economic Community of West African States [ECOWAS] has announced the death of one of its staff, Jatto Abdulqudir, who died of the dreaded Ebola virus. “Mr Abdulqudir, a protocol assistant, was among those who assisted the Liberian delegate to a regional meeting Mr Patrick Sawyer, who died from the Ebola Virus Disease at…
Terry Paulson What would you say to the Founding Fathers who gathered in Philadelphia to craft the Declaration of Independence knowing that it would mean war with England? Would you have told them to wait, to keep trying diplomacy, or to wait for England to leave them alone? Would you support their taking up arms…
By Salisu MaradunGusau—Few days after the visit of the National President of the Cattle Rearers Association to Zamfara State, to reconcile the warning farmers/fulanis clans, no fewer than 23 were reported to have lost their lives in Hura Girke village of Wonaka district of Gusau Local Government Area of the state.About 80 are also currently…
by: Kolade Adeyemi, Kano Man believed to be training female bombers was arrested yesterday in Kano.Also arrested with Ibrahim Ibrahim, were the 16 girls who security agents said were being trained as would-be bombers.Sources in Kano said the teenage girls were arrested when security men swooped on the place were they were being trained following…