Yaqoub Popoola Correspondent, Ado-Ekiti The Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) and Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, has said the much spoken transformation agenda of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration is nothing more than a deceit.Speaking in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday while commissioning the ultra modern Pharmacology/Biochemistry building of the Medical School in Ekiti State…
Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, said on Wednesday there were “fifth columnists’’ in the armed forces leading to conflicting information emanating from the military.Badeh made the allegation in Abuja, while reacting to some presentations at the start of a three-day workshop on “Security/Media Relations in Crisis Management”.The News Agency of Nigeria…
Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu has lashed out at the American government for making a failed and what was seen a deceitful promise to assist Nigeria with 30 walk through body temperature detector . The Minister made the disclosure today at High level expert meeting on Ebola Virus Disease in Abuja organized by the…
By Sylvester UgwuanyiThe All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed the denial by Asari Dokubo of the allegation that says he was aboard the plane carrying the $9.3m arms money that was impounded by the South African Government. The party said Asari’s denial was lacking in substance, arguing that he remains a suspect until the Federal…
by The Advocate The Director of Catholic Social Communication of Maiduguri Diocese, Rev. Gideon Obasogie has said that two months after the capture of 11 towns in Borno and Adamawa states by Boko Haram, residents could not return to their houses and places of worship, as 185 churches in the diocese were torched and 190,…
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a British bishop who stood down after admitting to an affair with a married parishioner, the Vatican said on Monday.“The Holy Father Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Kieran Conry from the dioceses of Arundel and Brighton,” a statement said.Conry, 64, had said in a letter to…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked President Goodluck Jonathanto urgently address Nigerians on the serial embarrassments to which hisadministration is subjecting the country in the comity of nations, afteranother seizure of $5.7 million of Nigerian arms money by the SouthAfrican authorities. In a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday by its National PublicitySecretary, Alhaji…
Chris Agbambu -Abuja SOME soldiers and officers are said to be outraged and bitter over the decision of the General Court Martial, convened by the Army authorities, to try a Lieutenant-Colonel (names withheld) and 37 soldiers for mutiny. This was as they claimed the authorities shunned the heroic operations of the officer and his…
Abuja – The Federal Government has appealed to financiers of the Boko Haram insurgents to desist from sponsoring the terrorists and surrender to security forces as some members of the sect had done recently.Mr Mike Omeri, the Coordinator, National Information Centre, made the appeal in statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja.The statement which was personally…
By Ikenna Asomba, with agency report LAGOS—Three weeks after 116 people, of whom 84 South Africans lost their lives when a six-storey guest house attached to the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, Ikotun-Egbe, Lagos, collapsed, fresh indications have emerged that the South-African government and the Nigerian authorities in Lagos are bickering over alleged inadequate…