Indications emerged on Friday that President’s choice of General Kenneth Minimah, as the new Chief of Army Staff may have been informed by the need to intensify the campaign against the insurgency in the north-eastern part of the country.Investigations by SUNDAY PUNCH showed that Minimah belonged to fighting corp of the army as an infantry…
A former Minister of Education and Vice-President of the World Bank, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, has said the greatest failure of the regimes in the current democratic dispensation, including that of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, has been military approach to developmental issues.Obasanjo, Nigeria’s former Head of State, handed over to Alhaji Shehu Shagari in 1979.The retired General…
The Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, yesterday slammed political leaders from Anambra State, accusing them of cash and carry politics which had sabotaged the efforts of Ndigbo in achieving the age long ambition of producing the President of the nation.Okorocha stated this at the inauguration of the Southeast interim executive committee of the All Progressive…
The immediate Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika (retd.) on Sunday carpeted members of the Northern Elders Forum for vowing to drag him and six others to the International Criminal Court of Justice in the Hague over their alleged role in last year’s violence in Bama, and Giwa Barracks all in Borno State while…
President of Christian Welfare Initiative (CWI), who doubles as the chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), South-west Zone, Archbishop Magnus Atilade, had recently urged Christians to join in the 31-day fasting and prayers programme for the persecuted Church in Nigeria which started on January 14, noting that denominations/ministries which had begun fasting and…
Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State on Saturday said three presidents had at different occasions attempted to lure him to join the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, but that he declined their overtures.He, however, mentioned only two of them – Olusegun Obasanjo and the late Umaru Yar’Adua.President Goodluck Jonathan is the third president under the…
The Islamic sect, Boko Haram has lost the strategic Banki town and its bridge in Borno State to Nigerian troops at what sources described as a great cost to its members. No fewer than 50 insurgents were killed in a 72 hour battle with soldiers deployed to seize the border town between Nigeria and Cameroun.…
Abia State governor, Theodore Orji, has described General Azubike Ihejirika, as a great soldier who represented Abia State to his best, stressing that his removal as the Chief of Army Staff was a normal thing in the military formation and that it is part of the re-engineering in the military by President Goodluck Jonathan. “General…
The Peoples Club of Nigeria yesterday said it has concluded plans to hire a Professor of Medicine to be at its headquarters in Onitsha to attend to people at no cost within six months. The medical doctor will be rendering free health services to the indigent persons in the society from 8 am to 4…
The former senator who represented Kaduna Central senatorial district at the National Assembly and chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),in Kaduna state, Senator Mohammed Mukhtar Aruwa has declared that he would have staged a coup ahead of 2015 elections tension if still in the military. Speaking with journalists in his farm along Abuja- Express Way,…