Seven months after the ill-fated Nigeria Immigration Service recruitment, some victims of the stampede in Benin, the Edo State capital, protested the non-implementation of the compensation promised them by President Goodluck Jonathan.It will be recalled that 18 persons died including one at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, venue of the exercise in Edo while over 20,000…
ABUJA—Military authorities yesterday in Abuja arraigned 59 soldiers, who are taking part in the ongoing war to flush out Boko Haram terrorists in the North east, on a two-count charge of criminal conspiracy to commit mutiny and mutiny. The soldiers during thier mutiny tral The 59 soldiers, who are part of 97 officers and…
Jacob Segun Olatunji And Kolawole Daniel-Abuja The House of Representatives, on Wednesday, adopted the harmonised conference report on a Bill for an Act, to further alter the 1999 constitution, and rejected the amendment of section 9 to allow for a referendum in determining the fate of the National Conference recommendations.Both Houses of the National Assembly…
Nigeria’s richest televangelist, Pastor David Oyedepo, has been barred from entering Britain, Reuters international news agency has reported. According to Reuters in an article entitled ‘Nigeria’s ‘megachurches’: a hidden pillar of Africa’s top economy’, “Britain’s Charity Commission says it is reviewing potential conflicts of interest in his finances, and last month the Home Office (interior…
Chiefs of Defence Staff of Nigeria and Cameroon, yesterday commenced the Cameroon-Nigeria trans-border Military Operations Coordinating Conference, with the aim of evolving a joint military offensive strategy to tackle Boko Haram insurgency. According to Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, the conference was “part of the ongoing efforts at engaging relevant…
ONITSHA, the commercial city of Anambra State was yesterday thrown into confusion after the Police in the state set ablaze a building at Okpoko Layout, which the operatives described as a hide-out for members of the Movement for Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB.But the owner of the house, Mr. Ikechukwu Agude and his…
Nnewi—Over 4,000 workers at the Atani Road Industrial Estate, Ogbaru Local Government Area,
Kaduna State Governor, Mukhtar Ramalan Yero has assured the Igbo community in the state of his administration’s commitment to the security of their members and property.Speaking when he received a delegation of the Igbo community, who paid him courtesy call at the Government House yesterday, Yero said as law abiding citizens, members of the Igbo…
By Ameh Comrade Godwin Fulani Fulani chiefs under the aegis of Fulbe Lamibe Association of Nigeria, FLAN, have denied endorsing President Goodluck Jonathan for second term.The group was reacting to a recent endorsement of President Jonathan by some “self-appointed Fulani leaders” for the 2015 presidential election.FLAN, in a statement by its secretary, Hussaini Salisu Kachia,…
According to Manzini, South Africa will do everything to maintain cordial relations with Nigeria and would not do anything to hurt her national interests.He added that South Africa had been selling arms to Nigeria and that his country was prepared to sell arms to Nigeria to fight Boko Haram.The envoy, however, did not give the…