Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer to late Head-of-State, Gen. Sani Abacha, has challenged ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, to a public debate on any issue concerning Nigeria.Al-Mustapha threw the challenge in an interview with the Hausa Service of the Voice of America, monitored in Abuja, on Wednesday.The former CSO was reacting to news reports about…
President Goodluck Jonathan has again hit back at former President Olusegun Obasanjo, saying he and his like do not own Nigeria, reiterating that Nigeria does not belong to any politician or group of politicians.In his remarks at Christmas Day service held at the Cathedral Church of the Advent, Life Camp, Abuja, the president, who was…
Vice President, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Issa Aremu, has said it is saddening that 53 years after Nigeria’s independence, the country still relied on oil as the mainstay of its economy.Aremu, who made the statement at a press conference yesterday, said it was high time the country diversified into sectors such as automobile, food and…
Bola-Ahmed-TinubuAll Progressives Congress National Leader and former governor of Lagos state, Bola Tinubu, in a Christmas message to Christians, urged Nigerians to remain steadfast in their faith that Nigeria will someday be lifted from its present predicament to a better society.Our hope for a better Nigeria, where the people are the core of governance and…
Governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday berated the Federal Government, Presidency and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, describing them as dishonest and completely insensitive to the basic requirement of protecting the lives and property of Nigerians.The governors, who made this known in their Christmas message to Nigerians under the aegis of Progressives Governors’…
Northern Youth Movement For Positive Change has call on the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi to resign from his current position as the governor of the apex bank.The group made the call in a statement signed by its coordinator, Mr David Glavda, yesterday in Abuja, saying it is pertinent for…
Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Okoi Obono-Obla, has stated that President Goodluck Jonathan’s reply to an earlier letter sent to him by former President Olusegun Obasanjo has given the North and the party’s leader, Muhammadu Buhari, of involvement in the activities of Boko Haram.Obono-Obla, founding member of APC, who stated this on Tuesday…
The Presidency has taken its case against ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).It asked the commission to investigate the allegation of keeping over 1,000 people on a political watch list and training snipers.Jonathan made the demand in a letter to the Executive Secretary of the NHRC, Prof Bem Angwe.A source in…
THE Rivers State Governor and Chairman of Nigerian Governors’ Forum, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has called on the country’s military to shun partisan politics.Amaechi expressed the need for them to remain neutral and avoid taking sides in the current struggle by politicians for 2015, adding that doing otherwise would portray grave consequences for the country.The governor…
THE military operation to track insurgents who carried out the last Friday pre-dawn attacks on Mohammed Kur Barracks, Bama, has led to the killing of 50 insurgents and destruction of over 20 vehicles conveying escaping terrorists.The vehicles were the ones used during the attack on the barracks and were sited through air surveillance, as the…