The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, on Thursday received a letter of invitation from President Goodluck Jonathan to attend activities marking the nation’s centenary scheduled for February 27.The UN Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria reports that the UN Deputy Secretary-General, Jan Eliasson, received the invitation on behalf of Ban who was in Kuwait for…
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has said the unity of Nigeria is non-negotiable even as he commended the Nigerian Armed Forces for their defence of democracy. The governor, who stated this yesterday at the grand finale of the Armed Force Remembrance Day celebration in Benin City, said: “Presidents will come and go, governors will…
A Federal High Court yesterday rejected the report of a medical examination conducted on suspected terrorist, Charles Okah, by the Federal Government. The trial judge, Justice Gabriel Kolawole, in a ruling, ordered that a fresh medical assessment that will reveal Okah’s current mental state be conducted within 15 days.His decision was sequel to observation raised…
A Maiduguri-based group, Borno Elites for Peace, Stability and Progress, has called for the arrest and interrogation of the former governor of the state, Alhaji Modu Sheriff over Tuesday suicide bombing that killed 30 people in Maiduguri.The call, according to the group, was necessitated by a statement allegedly credited to the campaign organization of the…
Onitsha in Anambra State, yesterday erupted in a turmoil following riots at the Old Motor Spare Parts market, Mgbuka along the
There is confusion and chaos in the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State, where some youths have gone on the rampage in reaction to the alleged killing of a traffic personnel by occupants of an articulated vehicle.The part of Onitsha affected by this violence is the Upper Iweka – Headbridge axis. Reports had it that…
President Goodluck Jonathan and those within his inner circle simply hate the yoruba. And we the yoruba did not resist, fight and defeat the hegemony of other nationalities in the last 100 years just for it to be replaced with Ijaw domination.I have said it before and I will say it again, if we cannot…
PM NEWS LAGOS – The General Overseer of Nigeria’s Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has said that the country called Nigeria was born deformed 100 years ago, adding that it died when Major General Aguiyi Ironsi abolished the regions in 1966.The convener of the Save Nigeria Group, SNG, said this while speaking on the…
In recent years, the Nigerian government has been accused of indiscriminate arrests, harassment, and prosecution in its fight against crimes and terrorism. There are allegations that many innocent citizens had been killed; while others had been starved, poisoned, brutalised and dehumanised in prisons.On Friday, January 10, 2014, however, The PUNCH reported that President Goodluck Jonathan…
Former governor of Anambra State Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, has declared that Nigeria may break up if President Goodluck Jonathan was disallowed from running for a second term in office. Ezeife, who stated this in an interview with Vanguard in Abuja, said: “At this juncture in Nigerian history, President Jonathan’s interest in a second term and…