By Levinus NwabughioguChief Mike Ozekhome, an accomplished lawyer and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) is one of the country’s foremost advocates of civil rights. In this exclusive interview, Ozekhome who is currently a delegate to the ongoing National Conference bares his mind on his experience in the hands of kidnappers, the issues at the…
BY NDAHI MARAMA, MaiduguriNO fewer than 15 passengers including motorists were killed when some gunmen suspected to be members of dreaded Boko Haram terrorists laid ambush along Maiduguri -Mafa- Dikwa Road yesterday at about 2:30pm.Also two suicide bombers suspected to be member of dreaded Boko Haram sect in a golf saloon Volkswagen car laden with…
South East Governors’ Forum has commended delegates at the ongoingconstitutional conference in Abuja for their unanimous recommendation thatan additional state be created for the zone to bring it at par with othergeo-political zones of the country.Chairman of the forum and Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, in apress statement made available to newsmen in Umuahia,…
By Abdul Jelil Adebayo, Abuja, Akure, Folorunso Ojo, Ibadan, Lagos Bureau Chief, Muyiwa olaleye, Osogbo and Sunny Adeloye, Richard Akintade Politicians across political divides in the South-West are unanimous that the supposed stronghold by the All Progressives Congress, APC and its leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on the political zone is rapidly coming to an end.In…
YETUNDE DANIELThe Nigeria Labour Congress NLC, on Wednesday, June 4, lamented that the non-passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB by the National Assembly is making the country loose trillions of naira.The Vice Chairman of NLC Comrade Issa Aremu said this at an interactive workshop on the PIB organized by the Unite Consult Limited in…
Rukayat YisauDino Melaye, former member of the House of Representatives, has described the present administration under the leadership of Goodluck Jonathan as the worst the country has ever had.Melaye stated this on Wednesday at an anti-corruption symposium organised by Gani Fawehinmi Students’ Chambers held at Julius Berger hall, University of Lagos.He cited cases whereby President…
National Industrial Court, NIC, in Abuja presided over by Justice Babatunde Adejumo, yesterday struck out the suit filed by the Emir of Kano, Mallam Sanusi out Lamido Sanusi’s case in challenging his suspension as the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, by President Goodluck Jonathan. However, the matter which the suit sought relief remain…
Community leaders in the northern Nigerian town of Chibok have called on the United Nations to step in and rescue more than 200 girls taken from a school in April, by the extremist group Boko Haram.
It appears that the government of Jonathan is determined to implement ideas coming from Radio Biafra and her listeners in a bid either to appear as a man in touch with public opinion or to neutralise the potency of the current worldwide agitation for Biafra spearheaded by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The current…
Second Republic Governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, on Thursday, took a swipe at President Goodluck Jonathan, alleging that his incompetence has affected every part of Nigeria. Musa, who said this during an interview with The PUNCH, added that the fact that over 200 schoolgirls abducted by the Boko Haram sect from Chibok, Borno…