by: Yusuf Alli, ManagingThe police yesterday launched a search for more than 100 mobile police trainees who are missing as a result of the attack on Thursday by Boko Haram on the Nigeria Mobile Police Academy in Gwoza.There were indications that some of the fleeing trainees were sighted in Yola and Mubi in Adamawa State.The…
By Our ReporterContrary to official claims that President Goodluck Jonathan travelled to Germany on a private visit, Nigerian news source Leadership Newspapers is said to have gathered yesterday that the president actually took ill and left for Germany to seek medical care.Efforts to get a confirmation from the Presidency failed up until the time of…
“Nobody has a right to stop him from contesting,” he said. “Every President who have ruled this nation spent two terms.”Nigerian Former Minister of Information, Edwin Clark, announced today in Abuja that President Jonathan can–and will–contest for the Presidency in 2015. At a meeting of the group “Northern Women in Politics”, Clark said that Jonathan…
Barely 24 hours after suspected members of Boko Haram sect dislodged the National Police Mobile Training Camp in Limankara Village of Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State, another set of heavily armed terrorists members stormed Pulka Village of Gwoza and sacked the whole community before hoisting their black and white flags. Pulka is north…
The federal government, yesterday, charged soldiers in the ongoing military
THE 160 Biafran soldiers who were granted presidential pardon are among military pensioners that would be paid balance of their 20 per cent pension arrears.This came as the Federal Government vowed to do everything within available resources to pay the military pensioneers the balance of their arrears with effect from 2010 to 2013, running into…
CHAIRMAN of the just concluded national conference, Justice Idris Kutigi (retd), has said the final submission of the conference report to President Goodluck Jonathan has laid to rest, the apprehension that the conference will lead to disintegration of Nigeria.He said those who thought that Nigeria would break up would be disappointed that the national conference…
By IHEANACHO NWOSU, JULIANA TAIWO-OBALONYE and FRED ITUA, AbujaContrary to his March 17, 2014 promise while inaugurating the National Conference in Abuja, that the outcome of the dialogue would go into referendum, President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday reversed himself, saying the final document will be forwarded to the Council of State and the National Assembly for…
By GEORGE ONYEJIUWA, Owerri Following the fracas between Chief Ralph Uwazuruike’s supporters and some dissatisfied members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), in which two persons died, the Imo State Police Command has summoned the group’s leader to explain his role in the crisis.The Police warned that the…
By Our Reporter(ABUJA)The United States’ Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle, has promised that his country will support Nigeria to ensure successful general elections in 2015.He made the promise when he paid a courtesy call on members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abuja on Wednesday.Ertwistle said: “From our…