Futile or fruitful? That’s the big question one week after the National Conference began in Abuja. In the real sense, the confab is supposed to be two weeks old having been inaugurated on March 17. But it deferred the commencement of technical session by one week. The adumbration started on March 24.. Seated in the…
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday took a swipe at governors for accusing the Federal Government of bad leadership, asking them to stop pushing blames when they have failed on their part to provide primary and secondary education for their citizens. Speaking in Bauchi during the North-east Zonal Rally of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Jonathan also…
Nigerian journalists today expressed outrage over yesterday’s abduction and continued detention
Wednesday’s threat by the Lamido of Adamawa, Alhaji Muhammadu Mustapha to lead his people in seceding from Nigeria if the situation warrants it is not a Northern agenda,several Northern delegates have said.Alhaji Mustapha caused a storm when he said at a session of the National Conference that he was prepared to lead his people to …
Information reaching 247ureports.com from Umuahia reveals that the noise generated over the accidental death of the cousin to Engineer Chinedu Orji [Governor Orji’s son] recently may have been result of blackmail ‘reports’ authored by some of Orji Uzor Kalu’s aides and published on Igbere TV – an outfit financed by Orji Uzor Kalu – the…
The British High Commission says two British men have been arrested in Nigeria this week in connection with an alleged attempt to steal oil. Nigeria says an estimated 200,000 barrels of crude worth more than $20 billion on the international market is stolen daily in the West African nation. Analysts say high-ranking politicians and military…
The former Secretary of the Oputa Panel on Reconciliation as well as the Constitutional Conference submitted that the country faces severe leadership challenge because of flawed recruitment. Speaking on “After the insurgency: Some thoughts on Reconciliation in Nigeria” as the lecturer for the 43rd convocation of University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Kukah decried the current situation.
Tragedy has hit the National Conference, following the untimely death of one of the members from Bauchi State on Thursday. Hamma Misau, a retired Assistant Inspector of Police, represented the Association of Retired Police Officers of Nigeria, ARPON and hailed from Misau in Bauchi State.Conference Chairman and former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Idris Legbo…
After escaping the bullets of suspected Fulani mercenaries who are sacking communities in parts of Benue state, no fewer than 32 Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs have been reported dead in the last one week in makeshift camps scattered around North Bank area of Makurdi town for the IDPs. Saturday Vanguard’s investigation revealed that among the…
Plateau State Governor, Dr. Jonah David Jang, is being targeted by the Boko Haram terrorist sect, a report from Jos, the state capital, has said. The report, which appeared in today’s edition of the authoritative Guardian newspaper, has it that a State House of Assembly member, Daniel Dem, is also being trailed by Boko Haram,…