The Supreme Igbo Security Council, a group committed to peace on Thursday said it would support President Goodluck Jonathan for second term if he indicated his interest. The President of the council, Mr Bobby Ukadike, made the declaration while addressing journalists in Abuja. He said that the North and South had had a fair share…
Constitutional lawyer, Prof. Ben Nwabueze yesterday in Enugu made public the Igbo position on the proposed
YOLA— WITH the nation yet to recover from the shock arising from the massacre of about 58 students of Federal Government College, Bunu Yadi, Yobe State and abduction of 16 female students by Boko Haram insurgents last Tuesday, the sect, yesterday, moved to Adamawa where it attacked two local government council areas which share common…
President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, challenged African leaders to come together to fight the menace of terrorism in the continent, noting that terrorism is undermining the development of the continent.President Jonathan’s remarks came on the day the French President, Francois Hollande and the British Prime Minister; David Cameron assured Nigeria and indeed Africa of their support…
by GEORGE OPARA Gunmen and Kidnappers appear to be on the prowl again in Abia State as they have kidnapped two market women and a six-month old baby boy.They perpetrated their nefarious act by feigning to be operators of taxi cabs and motorcyclists Aba, the commercial nucleus of the state, and Umuahia, the state capital.Yesterday,…
George AgbaPresident Goodluck vowed yesterday that security forces in the country would adopt whatever means to totally end the sourge of terrorism and other gory activities of the Boko Haram sect. The president, LEADERSHIP gathered, had on Tuesday morning shed tears when he got the news of the gruesome killings of about 43 students in Yobe…
Uni-OsunArmed hoodlums, yesterday, invaded the hostel of students of the Osun State University main campus in Osogbo and allegedly raped some female students while some male students were injured.The hoodlums, according to sources, stormed the hostel located at Oke Bale area outside the university campus in the evening and stole some property belonging to the…
From EMMANUEL UZOR, OnitshaUneasy calm reigns in Onitsha, Anambra State as child theft has assumed a dangerous dimension in the commercial city with the emergence of a syndicate that allegedly steals children from Calabar, Cross River State and uses Onitsha as its sales point.However, luck ran out on two suspected female members of the syndicate…
Nigeria’s oil production has dropped by at least 95,000 barrels per day as the Royal Dutch Shell said on Wednesday it had closed the Nembe Creek Trunk oil pipeline to stop leakage caused by oil theft.The oil major said that it shut the pipeline on Sunday night.The pipeline pumps the Bonny Light grade of crude…
Being a national broadcast by President Goodluck Jonathan on the centenary celebration, last night, I extend warm greetings and felicitations to all Nigerians as we celebrate our nation’s centenary, a significant milestone in our journey to Nationhood. One hundred years ago, on the 1st of January 1914, the British Colonial authorities amalgamated the Southern and…