President Goodluck Jonathan has denied allegation that he is marginalising muslims in his policies rather the president reiterated on Wednesday his commitment to be fair and just to all Nigerian irrespective of religious and ethnic affiliation. The president said this in Abuja when he met in closed-door with a delegation of the Nigeria Supreme Council…
From ROSE EJEMBI, Makurdi and TIMOTHY OLANREWAJU, MaiduguriIt was a bloody day for residents of Benue and Borno states yesterday when suspected Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram killed 70 people, among them five policemen.The bloodbath came despite an appeal by Senate President David Mark, Tuesday urging terrorists to stop the killings even as the Inspector-General…
…Says: Confab Won’t Take Nigeria Anywhere Bashir Othman Tofa, former presidential flag-bearer of the defunctNational Republican Convention (NRC) and staunch member of the AllProgressive Congress in this interview with selected media men in Kanocondemned President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s style of leadership,insisting that the country is in dire need of change. He also spoke on howAPC…
The jet, a Global Express XRS plane, is allegedly chartered specifically for her private and official trips overseas.A return trip on the XRS plane is said to cost taxpayers €600,000.The jet is different from the Challenger 850, which the House of Representatives said gulped N10bn in the last two years to fly the minister.Investigation by…
The Head of UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UNOCHA, said the organisation would spend 75 million dollars on humanitarian assistance in Nigeria.The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, on Tuesday said that three million people were affected and a quarter of a million displaced by insurgency in the North-East between January and March.The…
IGNATIUS OKPARA, EnuguThe Enugu state police command has declared leader of Biafra Zionist Movement (BZM), Barrister Onwuka Benjamin Igwe wanted for treasonable felony.African Examiner reports that the group had two weeks ago, claimed responsibility of the early hour attack of Enugu state government House on 8th (March) 2014. Besides, BZM had also threatened to invade…
The Hausa service of the British Broadcasting Service (BBC) has aired the voice of a female escapee from Boko Haram’s captivity who painted a graphic picture of the operations of the sect.The former captive who was identified as Nineteen-year-old Janet by the BBC’s English language website was quoted as saying:“They went to Gwoza and brought…
The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Abubakar has said clashes persist between herdsmen and local farmers because they largely occur in remote locations that lack police stations and outposts.The IGP disclosed this in Abuja on March 24, 2014, Monday, before going into a closed door meeting with Deputy Inspectors General of Police (DIGs) and…
By Ameh Comrade Godwin A former Head of State and national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, Monday lambasted the federal government for wasting the nation’s hard-earned resources on the ongoing national conference.The former leader while speaking at the opening of the inaugural edition of the PGF Progressive Governors-Legislative-Civil Society Roundtable…
…Reps probe aviation company. THE probe instituted by the House of Representatives into allegations that the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Allison-Madueke spent N10 billion on a chartered plane appeared to have taken another dimension at the weekend with indications emerging that the probe has now extended to the owner of the Challenger 850…