Mordecai Sunday Ibrahim is the Chairman of the North-based Arewa People’s Patriotic Front (APPFRONT). In this interview with Correspondent, John Adi, he explained why corruption stands as a cog in the wheel of progress of the country. He also bared his mind on other national issues, including the forthcoming elections in 2015. Excerpts: What would…
In what appears to be a renewed tactics, some suspected Boko Haram terrorists have embarked on hunting of teachers. The sect members on Monday killed one Mallam Lawan Manga, aged 45, and injured Mallam Akura Walbintu, both staff serving in Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS) Wulgo town of Gamboru Ngala Local Government Area of Borno State. The…
President Goodluck Jonathan has described the activities of the Jama’atu Ahlus Sunnati Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram as the biggest headache of his government.“In terms of security, Boko Haram is the biggest challenge we have at the moment,” the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati had quoted the President.Jonathan spoke…
Nigerians have been warned against any action, inaction or comment that could incite the military to again take over the governance in the country. National Coordinator, Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), Otunba Gani Adams, who gave the advice in Lagos, said everyone must support the national conference recently sought by President Goodluck Jonathan. “We in OPC…
Minister of Finance and Supervising Minister of the Economy, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday, said Nigeria’s economy is under threat, following the continuous decline in its Excess Crude Account. Speaking in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Okonjo-Iweala said the depletion of the Excess Crude Account to about $2.5 billion, has made…
THE proposed plan by Professor Ango Abdullahi’s Northern Elders Forum to drag former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Azubuike Ihejirika, to the International
The honeymoon between the Governor Peter Obi the Governor-elect of Anambra State, Mr. Willie Obiano have may have come to an end as the later has began to grumble over the recklessness of his political god father, 247ureports is reporting.According to the report, the relationship between the two men began to soil during the later…
It is obvious the Nigerian economy is in a precarious situation. Is it anything new? Even oil theft, and the unclear accounts of oil receipts, coupled with corruption that are speedily draining resources available to governments, are not new. Nigerians do not need a warning from outsiders to know that an economy founded on one product,…
The House of Representatives yesterday issued a two-week ultimatum to President Goodluck Jonathan to sack the Inspector- General of Police, Muhammed Abubakar, and the controversial Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, Mr. Matthew Mbu. The House took the decision during a session after unanimously adopting a motion by Hon. Aliyu Madaki (APC-Kano). Madaki, who raised …
VANGUARD – Senator Smart Adeyemi, was a former president of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ before his entry into the political arena. Senator Adeyemi who represents Kogi West Senatorial District is also the vice-chairman of the Northern Senators Forum, NSF.In this interview on the fringes of an empowerment programme for constituents, he talks about…