Category Archives: NATIONAL NEWS

2015 Presidency:Nigeria is set for Break up as the battle line is drawn between Buhari B/H Sponsor Vs clueless Jonathan

By Dapo Akinrefon, Gbenga Oke, Levinus Nwabughiogu & Monsur Olowoopejo LAGOS—WITH 3,430 votes, former Head of State, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), yesterday, trounced his four opponents to emerge the 2015 presidential candidate of the main opposition All Progressives Congress (APC). His main challenger, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, a former vice-president, got 954 votes to come third…

Falling Oil Price Could Breed Political Instability – Experts

Analysts have continued to predict hard times for countries like Nigeria whose foreign exchange income is largely dependent on oil export. They fear that the steady decline in prices of crude oil poses great danger for them. According to The New York Times, the price of crude oil continued to collapse on Monday, plunging to…

Nwobodo’s Son’s Corpse Missing, Burial Postponed

The burial of the late Dr Ifeanyichukwu Nwobodo, the first son of former civilian governor of old Anambra State, Chief Jim Ifeanyichukwu Nwobodo, scheduled to hold yesterday in Enugu State was aborted following the disappearance of the deceased’s corpse, LEADERSHIP Weekend gathered. It was gathered that the two younger brothers of the deceased (Chukwudi and…

Police To Restore Tambuwal’s Security Detail

Police authorities are set to restore the security details of the speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, weeks after it was withdrawn in the wake of his defection from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress. Reports from the Police headquarters in Abuja indicate that the Police is hinging its decision…

Obi Ezekwesili, other campaigners to write Chadian President over Chibok girls

Members of the #BringBackOurGirls (BBOG) advocacy will be writing a letter to the President of Chad, President Idriss Deby, concerning the whereabouts of the Chibok girls. The group said it would be writing to him with the hope of getting answers to the whereabouts of the girls and the status of the purported negotiations brokered…

Nyanya bombing: Ogwuche’s N100m demand a big joke — FG

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri The Federal Government, yesterday, described the N100million demand by Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche, the alleged mastermind of the April 14 bomb blast that killed over 75 persons and wounded 100 others at a crowded motor park in Nyanya Abuja, as a big joke. Consequently, the government sought an outright dismissal of the fundamental…

A country that only depend on Crude Oil, sorry nigeria :-: Nigeria Loses $11.5bn to Tumbling Oil Prices

Ejiofor Alike The federal government and the oil and gas producing companies may have lost an estimated $11.5billion to the drop in the price of Brent crude oil from $115 per barrel in June to $68.62 yesterday, THISDAY has learnt. With Nigeria producing about 2.4 million barrels per day and exporting 2.2 million barrels per…

‘Corruption Is Part of the Underdevelopment of Ogoniland’

Since he escaped into the US in 1996 during the gestapo regime of the maximum ruler Sani Abacha who hanged his mentor Ken Saro-Wiwa, Anslem Dornu Bari John-Miller has used his Chicago based Council of Ogoni Professionals (COP) as the Diaspora wing of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP). The COP President…

Ring Truth, Kettle that Calls Pot Black :-: Letter to Chief Olusegun Obasanjo

with Yemi Adebowale Dear sir, I hope this letter meets you in good health. May the good Lord continue to give you good health and long life to witness the Nigeria of your dream. I wasn’t too sure if I would be allowed into your fortress in Ota; this is why I have chosen this…

Fayose blasts Obasanjo for criticising Jonathan

The Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayo Fayose, flayed former President Olusegun Obasanjo for allegedly criticising   Jonathan’s administration on corruption and insecurity. Fayose, who spoke at a summit in Ife, said that Obasanjo had no moral justification to criticise Jonathan’s administration because the former President’s government was far more corrupt than the one he criticised. The…