Service chiefs Minimah: No news yet on Chibok girls NPAN: Polls must hold as scheduled Jaiyeola Andrews in Abuja With the rescheduled elections less than two weeks away, the Chief of Army Staff (CAS), Lt-Gen. Kenneth Minimah, said on Tuesday that though several towns and villages had been liberated by the military and regional…
R-L; APC Presidential Candidate, Gen Muhammadu Buhari, Publisher Thisday Newspaper, Nduka Obaigbena annd Publisher of Vanguard Newspaper, Chief Sam Amuka during a meeting with Nigerian Publishers at the Sheraton hotels and Towers in Abuja. PHOTO; SUNDAY AGHAEZE Declares Nigerian media will be free under APC rule Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja Despite his recent assertions that…
Late Gen. Sani Abacha Obinna Chima with agency report Swiss officials have said they will be returning about $380 million stolen by former dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha, to Nigeria. Geneva prosecutors, according to the Associated Press (AP), said on Tuesday that they ordered the money seized in Luxembourg starting in 2006. It was transferred…
A “naive” solicitor fell victim to a classic scam when he handed over €242,000 client monies on the promise of getting €26.8 million from a Nigerian oil company, the High Court in Dublin, Ireland, has been told. No client of James J Maher, formerly practising as a partner in James Maher & Co, Essex Quay,…
APC National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed Opposition should stop scare-mongering and prepare for defeat, says Fani-Kayode OPC breaks up, faction disowns Gani Adams Chuks Okocha and Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja and Gboyega Akinsanmi in Lagos 
 The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused President Goodluck Jonathan of carrying his re-election desperation to a new…
Unfolds agenda on socio-economic rejuvenation Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja 
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), has entered into a covenant with Nigerians highlighting his plan to tackle the challenges currently facing the country, including a Marshall Plan on the Boko Haram insurgency and insecurity. In a document released…
Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda To investigate first lady over APC petition Tobi Soniyi in Abuja 
 Ahead of the general election, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, has for the second time reminded Nigerian politicians that they risk being hauled to The Hague, Netherlands, for trial…
Leon Lotz, a white South African military ‘advisor’ who died in battle with Boko Haram last week, was a Koevoet man. In post-Apartheid South Africa, this tag hardly draws any admiration. Koevoet was an Apartheid paramilitary organisation established at the height of the South African Border War in 1979. After the fall of Apartheid, many…
President Goodluck Jonathan Says Fashola’s comment on Lagos armed robbery incident irresponsible ‘Jonathan did not have telephone conversation with Morocco king’ APC tells President to apologise to Nigerians over row Jaiyeola Andrews and Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja The Presidency on Friday rebuffed claims by the former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu,…
Director of Defence Information (DDI), Maj-Gen. Chris Olukolade Says alleged ‘mercenaries’ are technical advisers Senator Iroegbu in Abuja The military has disclosed that the ongoing cordon and search by troops in Buni Yadi in Yobe State has led to the discovery of a bomb making factory, where improvised explosive devices (IEDs) used by terrorists…