This report by JIDE AJANI will show that whereas members of the Jama’atu Ahliss-Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram, may have started out as a rag-tag group of Islamic evangelists who came in handy for political domination, it became a veritable tool of distraction to President Jonathan’s government in the build-up to…
President Goodluck Jonathan’s perceived mishandling of the case of the more than 200 school girls abducted by Boko Haram in Borno State got further knocks yesterday in South Africa. Crowd at the inauguration of President Jacob Zuma for a second term in office registered their disapproval of government’s inability to rescue the girls one month…
Troops on the hunt for the more than 200 school girls abducted last month in Chibok, Borno State are up against a fresh challenge. Their navigation of the massive Sambisa forest where the girls are believed to be kept by their abductors is being restricted by land mines laid across the area by Boko Haram,…
A fresh moveby former President Olusegun Obasanjo to regain relevance in the PDP is being resisted by President Goodluck Jonathan. President Jonathan is said to have rejected Obasanjo’s proposal to replace Vice President Namadi Sambo with Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State as his running mate in next year’s election.
The relative peace enjoyed by the people of Ogui-Agu Eke community in the Udi Local Government Area of
Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Prof Tam David-West, has said Nigerians should not expect any serious fight against corruption from the present administration since President Goodluck Jonathan himself has said stealing is not corruption.Speaking with Saturday Sun in Ibadan yesterday, the retired university teacher and Professor of Virology said his earlier posture that President Jonathan…
Former Governor of Abia state, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, while speaking with airport correspondents yesterday as he returned from a trip to the UK, said if things are not properly checked politically,
Federal Government yesterday said that it has so far released the sum of N130.7 billion of the 2014 bugdet to the military between January and April, this year.Out of this amount, N86.9 billion is for personnel cost.Briefing newsmen in Abuja, Co-ordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said that the…
• Emir of Zazzau, Tor Tiv also victimsThis is certainly not a good season for Vice President Namadi Sambo. He is not only battling to be relevant in a government he is second in command, the former governor of Kaduna State is equally contending with influential forces within the rank of some Northern governors angling…
THE Movement for Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Friday raised an alarm over what it called a plot by members of the Boko Haram sect to bomb the popular Onitsha main market and some other markets in the South-East geo-political zone.It therefore warned that MASSOB would resist any attempt to perpetrate such terrorism…