Governor Peter Obi on Wednesday wrote President Goodluck Jonathan to investigate the dumping of 72 homeless people at the Upper Iweka Bridge, Onitsha, Anambra State, by suspected agents of the Lagos State Government. In a letter titled, “Unconstitutional, Illegal and Forced Deportation of Nigerians to Anambra State from Lagos State,” Obi described the action of…
The Federal Government on Wednesday said the co-owner of Amigo Supermarket, Mustapha Fawaz, and two other Lebanese, facing terrorism charges, spied on Israelis and other foreign nationals in Abuja. The suspects, the Federal Government also said, placed some strategic buildings in Abuja under surveillance. Federal Government prosecutor, Simon Egede, stated this after tendering a video…
What appears a non-relenting spat of Jihadist based violence against the Nigerian social structure may have conclusively begun exhibiting symptoms of what may become of the federal government’s battle against the ongoing religious insurgency in northern Nigeria. And as the electioneering campaign of 2015 presidential exercise nears, concerned quarters within the Nigerian security force fear…
The casualty fig-ures from the multiple blasts that rocked the predominantly Christian quarters in Kano, Monday evening, has increased to 45 dead, according to Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Kano. Briefing newsmen on the development in Kano, yesterday, Chairman, Kano chapter of the pan-Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Chief Tobias Idika, said: “We counted 45 dead bodies and they have…
The Anambra Women Organisation, AWO, has pledged to contribute money to support in Dr. Chris Ngge’s governorship campaign. The women also promised to mobile their over 122,000 members in 346 wards, including non-indigenes, to vote for him in the scheduled November 16 governorship election. The group made the pledge when Ngige visited the women yesterday…
The Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Rev. Mathew Hassan Kukah has alerted leaders and politicians in the country to take proactive measures in addressing the lingering crisis and insecurity bedevilling the nation. Kukah said: “Time is not on our side and the country is falling apart if care is not taken.” Speaking in an interview at…
DEPUTY governor of Borno State, Zannah Umar Mustapha, has said the state is still having some problems, though relative peace is being restored, adding that the state, for now, was not interested in the restoration of GSM network services. Mustapha said this while receiving members of the Senate Committee on Defence, Police, Army and National…
The former leader of the Niger Delta Volunteer Force, Alhaji Asari Dokubo,
Former Presidential candidate of the defunct Nigeria Advance Party (NAP) Dr. Tunji Braithwaite on Tuesday, faulted the planned centenary anniversary of Nigeria’s amalgamation by the presidency in 2014, describing it as a celebration of slavery and bad history. The Human Rights Activist and lawyer who wondered why despite the myriad of problems confronting the country,…
Umaru Dikko the former Aviation Minister under the administration of Shehu Shagari in the second republic is the arch looter and an extraordinary criminal of international repute. He singlehandedly put Nigeria on the map in the league of African treasury robbers.