The Senate Committee on Defence and Army yesterday directed the Chief of Army Staff to temporarily relocate to the 7th Division of the Nigerian Army, Maiduguri and take appropriate steps to quell the ongoing orgy of violence in the North East. The directive followed the unabated killings by the Boko Haram sect in Borno and…
President Goodluck Jonathan, Thursday, urged Nigerians to seize the opportunity of the national conference at the beginning
As early as 7.00a.m. on Monday, February 24, 2014, thousands of Imo women stormed the streets of Owerri to protest against the PDP and its leaders over the provocative statements they had made during their party’s rally last weekend, with the women saying that the PDP leaders had come to provoke Imo people.The women who…
The price of premium motor spirit, popularly called petrol has risen above the approved pump price of N97 per liter to N125 in Umuahia and its environs. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that apart from few major marketers that occasionally sell at the regulated pump price, independent marketers have hiked the price to between…
The Governors in the South East zone met in Enugu on Tuesday to discuss issues of common interest. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the meeting, which lasted for seven hours, ended without a communiqué. The meeting, which held at the Governor’s Lodge in Enugu, was attended by the former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi,…
UGHELLI—THE Ovie of Uvwie Kingdom, HRM Emmanuel Abe 1, has condemned the planned demolition of buildings in Ohore village, Uvwie Local Government Area, Delta State by men of the Nigerian Army, describing it as oppressive. The monarch, who addressed women of the kingdom, who embarked on a protest against the alleged harassment and dispossession of…
The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has demanded to know the whole truth about the alleged missing $20b which the suspended Central Bank Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi said is missing from the federation account. A statement Wednesday from the finance ministry to the BBC, said the minister,…
GUNMEN suspected to be members of Boko Haram sect, on Tuesday, opened fire on students of Federal Government College in Buni Yadi, Yobe State, in their sleep at their hostel, with over 40 students said to have been killed in the attack.ADVERTISEMENT Casualty figures from the attack in the town, about 60 kilometres from the…
SECURITY outfits operating in Bayelsa State have been on their toes following Sunday’s abduction of the 70-year-old Inengite Nitabai, the cousin of President Goodluck Jonathan.ADVERTISEMENT Forty eight hours after 10 heavily armed men stormed the expansive compound of Nitabai at Otuoke, hometown of President Jonathan in Ogbia Local Government Area and whisked the old man…
SUSPENDED Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has dragged