Chris Agbambu -AbujaANOTHER set of officer and soldiers are soon to face a court martial for negligence and destruction of military vehicles and equipment in the ongoing war against Boko Haram insurgents.ADVERTISEMENTAn authoritative military source disclosed to Saturday Tribune on Friday that a colonel and 15 of his soldiers had abandoned battle after first destroying…
by John Alechenu, Oluwole Josiah and Ihuoma Chidozie As the race for the 2015 presidential election gathers momentum, northerners as well as their southern counterparts, are putting final touches to plans to get the best out of the next dispensation.Saturday PUNCH gathered on Thursday that while the North appear divided over the endorsement of President…
In this report, the United Nations’ Refugee Agency (UNHCR)’s Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) tells a shocking story of the living conditions of the over 15,000 Nigerian refugees in Cameroon.Thousands of Nigerians who have fled attacks by Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, are crowded into Minawao refugee camp in Cameroon’s Far North Region, living in…
The quest of those campaigning for Jonathan’s victory at the 2015 presidential poll to achieve Ndigbo’s endorsement of the re-election bid of President Goodluck Jonathan in the next year’s election suffered a setback following a stalemate that ended its meeting with Igbo leaders.However, both parties agreed to constitute a committee to be headed by the…
A British man has died of causes very similar to the Ebola virus. The man who died yesterday in Macedonia in an hotel was suspected to have died of the virus.Macedonia authorities have sealed off the hotel and placed people who may have been in contact with him under quarantine. According to Reuters, the man…
Rev. Chris Okotie of the Household of God Church has called for the immediate and swift resignation of Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor as President of Christian Association of Nigeria [CAN] over the $9.3million botched arms deal scandal in which Oritsejafor’s private jet was involved in.Okotie took to his facebook to share a piece about the scandal,…
By Henry Umoru ABUJA— The National leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has cancelled all endorsements of candidates by the state executive officers. Rising from its National Working Committee, NWC, meeting yesterday, the national leadership of the PDP also warned all the zonal and state executives to jettison the idea of having any anointed…
The European Union (EU) has rejected the death sentence handed to 12 Nigerian soldiers by the General Court Martial in Nigeria for alleged mutiny. The EU in a statement issued yesterday on the occasion of the World Day against Death Penalty condemned all death sentences especially after mass trials as was the case with the…
by Kamarudeen Ogundele Governor Rabiu Musa Kwakwanso of Kano State has accused President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government of not being sincere over its defence of the seized $9.3m and another $5.7m by the South African government. He said the seized money by the South African government under the guise of procuring arms and ammunition to…
LAGOS—The World Bank has said that Nigeria will be one of 10 countries that, in the year 2030, will remain as the main contributors to global poverty.It said that the scenario requires that in Nigeria, currently contributing heavily to global poverty numbers, growth rates need to rise, but not to a degree that is entirely…