An alarming United States (U.S.) travel advisory warns that the Boko Haram uprising could expand out of the North and counsels against travel to 16 states, saying Americans have suffered violent crimes from kidnappings and rape to home invasions. The advisory says nine foreign nationals including Americans died last year in kidnappings in southwest Nigeria,…
Doctors were battling all yesterday to save Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, who was shot at a rally in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, said that no Nigerian should kill or maim himself or herself because of his presumed 2015 second term ambition, saying that “any ambition I have at any time is not worth the blood of Nigerians.” Meanwhile, President Jonathan has told the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga…
The Rivers State political crisis worsened yesterday when Senator Magnus Abe representing Rivers South-East was hit by rubber bullets.
The Electoral Officer in charge of the council polls in Nnewi North Local Government Area of Anambra State, Mr Aloysius Muoka was yesterday arrested by the police from Nnewi Area Command at the council headquarters for his inability to explain an alleged disappearance of election result sheets in his custody.Sunday Sun gathered that at about…
LEADERS of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the North-West geopolitical zone are said have prepared a list of the ‘sins’ of Vice-President Namadi Sambo which they will soon present to President Goodluck Jonathan.Indications to this emerged following the anger among stakeholders in the zone in the aftermath of the visit to President Jonathan on…
In a swift reaction to Olusegun Obasanjo letter to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman on his withdrawal from the party activities due to the presence of Mr. Buruji Kashamu as the leader of the party, the accused have issued a statement calling Obasanjo a blackmailer.In a statement issued Saturday, he detailed how the…
NIGERIAN TRIBUNE – Contrary to allegations in some quarters that the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Akpabio is nursing an ambition to become president or vice-president of the country in 2015, the state government has stated that there was no iota of truth in the allegations, describing them as an “invidious campaign of…
Ahead of the national dialogue proposed by President Goodluck Jonathan, the Second Republic Governor of Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa, has said the conference should be for Nigerians and not for ethnic nationalities.In an interview with SUNDAY PUNCH, Musa, who has been a proponent for national dialogue, said contrary to the opinion of some groups, Nigeria…
•Deception… The signboard contravened what happened in the ‘home’James Ezuma, a medical doctor nabbed by the police in Owerri, Imo State, for operating baby factories, is the face of child trafficking in Nigeria •Ezuma: Serial polygamist with his third wife.•Ezuma: Serial polygamist with his third wife.The glassy signpost with blue, white and black lettering promises…