More issues emerged today at the on-going 2014 National Conference in Abuja as the debate on the inauguration speech by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan continued. Issues bordering on national security, economic development, true federalism, restructuring of the polity, among others took centre-stage as delegates spoke passionately on the need for the country to look back…
Barely 24 hours after the military deployed to contain the recent attacks that has claimed over 200 lives and displaced thousands of the Tiv people of Nasarawa and Benue states, success was Thursday recorded as troops killed over 50 Fulani insurgents in Keana local government area of Nasarawa State in a gun duel. Fulani insurgents…
ABIA State governor, Chief Theodore Orji, has said there was no going back in his promise to cede power to Ukwa/Ngwa people of the state, but urged them to help him realise the project. According to Governor Orji, ceding power to Ukwa/Ngwa people was the only way to ensure justice and fairness and eliminate marginalisation…
The increasing rate of insecurity in Imo state has reached alarming dimension with women and children
by Kene Amazuoke Baring last minutes manoeuvres, the former governor of Abia State Dr. Orji Uzor-Kalu is set to bounce back to political reckoning through the forthcoming elections of the Apex Igbo socio-cultural group Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth and Women wings which is coming up on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th April 2014 in the Ohanaeze…
By Emma Ogoigbe Gunmen yesterday struck at Kiagbodo in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, seizing and taking away Ebikeme Clark, son of elder statesman and Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Clark. A top police source in Delta, who confirmed the kidnap, said Ebikeme’s abductors emerged from the water in the evening and whisked…
A Federal High Court in Lagos has restrained the Nigeria Police and the Department of State Services from arresting or harrassing the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido. The court also ordered the DSS to release Mr. Sanusi’s passport to him immediately while also awarding the embattled CBN boss N50 million…
Some delegate at the on-going National Conference taking place in Abuja has made a strong case for the issue of indigene and settlers that has impacted negatively to be brought to an end after the conference. Speaking during plenary on Wednesday, a delegate from North East and representative of minority nationalities, Dr Dauda Sale said…
Some delegates at the ongoing national conference yesterday advocated death by hanging for corrupt officials to tackle the growing incidence of graft and large scale theft of public funds in the country. A retired general in the Nigerian Army, Geoffery Ejiga, lamented that the country was deteriorating and urged his colleagues to rise up and…
The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, yesterday, lamented that the entire northern states were being consumed by crises, saying 17 of the 19 states in the region were either being attacked by criminal gangs including Boko Haram insurgents and herdsmen. ACF said the massive attacks had led to the death of thousands of innocent citizens as…