A Mafia-like movie was almost witnessed at the weekend at the Government House, Owerri Imo State, when Owelle Anayo Rochas Okorocha the Governor of Imo State was held hostage by his black suites-wearing Body Guards, who blocked his movement while demanding for the sum of N5 million (Five Million Naira) and a car each as…
A plot by top government agents to portray Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State as working with the North to stall the re-election of President Good-luck Jonathan was uncovered in Kaduna yesterday. Under the scheme, which is being financed by a serving minister in the present administration, N11 million has reportedly been paid to two…
The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, on Monday, in Abuja expressed concern on the nation’s state of affairs, saying only revolution would address the imbalances in the system. Chukwu, who made the suggestion during the inauguration of councils and boards of health professionals regulatory bodies, was reacting to fresh threats by some unions in…
Niger State Governor, Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has expressed the need to open up the inland basins for the exploration of hydrocarbon, especially as experts in the oil and gas industry have predicted that by 2030 petroleum would account for two third of the world’s energy needs. To this end and to ensure a successful exploration…
Former Lagos State Police Commissioner, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav, has said that any northerner conniving with others to thwart the efforts of the region in actualising the dream of having the presidency come 2015, should be placed on surveillance. According to him, punitive measures should be meted out to such people as deemed fit by the…
The FCT Police Command on Monday in Abuja confirmed that gunmen fired shots at the car of the Minister of Aviation,
The Arab world desperately wants Nigeria dead or under their firm control. In June 2010, Gadhafi announced in Libya that Nigeria should split into several countries or at least on religious basis of Islam versus Christians or North versus South. If this failed, the Arabs want a Somali or Sudan situation in Nigeria, preferring the…
This weekend, it was a time of bashing for churches, both orthodox and Pentecostal, over the commercialisation of funerals, which ordinarily should be a time of sorrow and the offering of condolences to the bereaved. Writing on her Facebook wall, Maero Ozako, a Lagos-based writer and newspaper columnist, expressed shock over the new practice by…
The Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta, codenamed Operation Pulo Shield, said its operatives have dismantled a militant camp in Bakassi local government area of Cross River State. The force disclosed that its operatives destroyed 59 illegal refineries, arrested seven suspects, and 4 barges in its offensive against oil thieves. These disclosures were…
The Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has said the reduction in oil production and receipts caused the shortfall in the federal allocation to the other tiers of government. The minister debunked the claim that politics was behind the dwindling allocations to the states. She attributed the reduction in…