Gunmen return, kill more in Kaduna LG where 200 were massacred last month
Unknown gunmen in the early hours of today killed five people,
Reject Jonathan’s $1bn loan request, Falana tells N’Assembly
by Olusola Fabiyi, Adelani Adepegba, Everest Amaefule and Ade AdesomojuA National Conference delegate, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, has asked the National Assembly to reject the request made by President Goodluck Jonathan, asking for the Assembly’s approval for a $1bn loan to aid the war against the Islamic sects, Boko Haram.Falana said the President must explain…
Nigeria holds great hope for Africa – Akpabio
Governor Godswiill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State has said Nigeria holds great hope for Africa and called for unity among the people despite their political and religious differences.Akpabio made the observation after the ground-breaking ceremony of the state’s permanent headquarters of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at Atan Offot in Uyo performed by the National Chairman…
Bill Clinton’s Visit To Bayelsa State: A Blessing Or Curse? By Fortune Godsson Alfred
The Bayelsa Social Media scene has been buzzing with the reports from the Government’s Social Media players that Ex U.S. President, Bill Clinton is billed to deliver the keynote address titled “unlocking Bayelsa State’s economic potential: Opportunities and challenges,” on July 16, 2014, at the state’s two-day maiden Investment and Economic Forum, which will hold…
Igbo group slams ACF’s position on civil war reparation to Ndigbo
BY NWABUEZE OKONKWOONITSHA—Ndigbo Unity Forum, NUF, has said that the objection being raised by Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, against the demand by Ohanaeze Ndigbo that the federal government pay N2.6 trillion to Ndigbo as civil war reparation was sabotage against national unity.NUF also said it was absurd that the northerners who seemed to be clamouring…
Court orders Anambra govt to release N1.5bn workers’ salary arrears
BY NWABUEZE OKONKWOONITSHA—Reprieve may have come the way of staff of Anambra State Water Corporation and Environmental Protection Agency, as the Industrial Court sitting in Enugu has ordered First Bank of Nigeria Plc, Awka branch, to release N1.5 billion for payment of salary arrears owed them by the government of immediate past governor of the…
Confab logjam: Ex-militants plan return to creeks
BY Emma AmaizeWARRI—SOME groups in the Niger Delta are preparing to return to the creeks following the standoff at the national conference over resource control.The Niger Delta People Salvation Front, NDPSF, led by Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo, in a statement, yesterday, said: “We are stating that going back to the creeks may be inevitably preferable, rather…
PDP govs caution President Jonathan don’t declare 2015 mbition now
President Goodluck Jonathan has been advised to tarry a little, before attempting to declare his second term ambition. Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, stated this at a meeting they had with the President at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Monday night. Though the governors were in support of the…
Nigeria’s oil exploration drops by 12%
Oil exploration activities in Nigeria and other African countries have dropped by 12 per cent between May and June, this year. The drop, according to Global oil industry analysts at Baker Hughes, reflected in the rig count during the period under review. The implication of the finding means that the continent may be producing at…
Gov Aliyu It’s insulting to describe Northerners as leeches
Chairman, Northern States Governors’ Forum, NSGF, and governor of Niger State, Dr Babangida Aliyu, has described as insulting and sad, insinuations by certain members of the National Conference that the north was leecherous. In a statement signed by Aliyu’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Israel Ebije, the governor said he was saddened that some members of…