The United Nations (UN) yesterday said over 1,200 people have been killed as a result of the Boko Haram insurgency in the Northeast of Nigeria since a state of emergency was declared in the region in May. According to the World body in a statement, the figure is related to killings of civilians and the…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has promised the people of Rivers State that it will ensure the return of all its oil well ceded to other states, if voted into power in the 2015 general elections. This was even as the senator representing Rivers South-East gave reasons why the Governor of the state, Hon. Rotimin…
Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, on Monday kicked against the Presidency’s threat to charge some members of the All Progressives Congress with treason. The President, through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, had on Sunday said that those “threatening fire and brimstone” and calling for his removal should be…
Indications emerged last night that prominent Nigerians of Ijaw extraction might take former President Olusegun Obasanjo
Islamic cleric and scholar Sheikh Ahmed Gumi has praised former President Olusegun Obasanjo for standing up for his conviction and for being bold to confront the government of President Goodluck Jonathan. In the words of the Kaduna-based cleric, Mr. Obasanjo has “washed his hands off innocent blood” by speaking up against the lapses of the…
The controversial letter by former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, to President Goodluck Jonathan is causing a sharp division in the House of Representatives. Vanguard learnt that while lawmakers sympathetic to Jonathan wanted the letter to be formally tabled and discussed in plenary and to caution Obasanjo for disparaging the President, legislators opposed to Jonathan do not…
ABEOKUTA — Men of Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 45-year-old man, Pastor Daniel Samuel, for stabbing his wife over the later’s refusal to attend church activities. Daniel, an ApostolicChurch pastor, was reported to have used a cutlass to inflict a deep cut on his wife, Patience’s, neck in Owode-Egba in Ibafemi Owode Local…
Seven more governors of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will join the All Progressives Congress (APC) by the first quarter of 2014,
President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, warned those opposed to his administration, including former political allies trading allegations of his sponsorship of a terror squad that they were treading the path of treason. The strong word of caution from the President followed the call for his impeachment by the All Progressives Congress, APC, in which he also…
Nelson Mandela’s coffin has arrived in his childhood home in Qunu in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa, the final leg of its journey. Large numbers of people lined the roads in the rural region to pay their respects as the cortege passed by.