A former military Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon; a former United Nations Secretary-General, Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali; and a former Zambian President, Kenneth Kaunda, are among eminent Africans that will intervene in the current political impasse in Rivers State. The Secretary of the Akasoba Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Dr. Jen Clarence, stated this…
Thirty-one migrants, including nine women, drowned off the coast of Libya during an attempted crossing to Italy according to survivors who managed to complete the journey, Italian media reported. A dinghy carrying 53 migrants capsized on Friday evening, and witnesses said 31 of those who had been thrown off it drowned in the accident. Some…
Forty-two suspected Boko Haram members were paraded yesterday by the Army in Lagos. They were arrested in various parts of Lagos and Ogun states, after fleeing the military intervention in some parts of the North. The suspects were arrested between July 12 and 23. Parading the suspects at the headquarters of the 81 Division, the…
The feuding leaders of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State and the party’s National Chairman, Chief Victor Umeh, yesterday met and resolved crisis tearing the party apart. Speaking after the closed-door meeting at the Government House, Awka, Obi said the crisis which they had fully resolved would never come…
AHEAD of the 2015 presidential election, Igbo youths have vowed not back President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election bid unless he fulfills his 2011 campaign promises to the South-East geo-political zone. According to the youths, of 10 promises, the President as of now is only tackling one and appears bent on shifting the rest to his second…
NATIONAL leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Monday named Second Republic Minister of Transport,
FORTY-SIX years ago, the counter coup to the first coup of that January claimed the lives of Gen Thomas Johnson Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi and his host Lt-Col Francis Adekunle Fajuyi. Ironsi was in Ibadan as part of his reconciliation tour, after the first coup that killed mostly prominent Northern politicians and army officers. Both Ironsi and…
The trouble-shooting efforts by five northern governors, all of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to “save the country’s democracy,” which began on July 20, 2013, with a visit to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, may have paid off, Daily Sun has learnt. This is so because President Goodluck Jonathan, who seemed unperturbed by the political…
The last may not have been heard of the controversial Malabu oil deal. Mohammed Sani, one of the children of the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, is locked in a battle with a firm owned by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mr. Dan Etete, over N34.4billion ($215m) which accrued from the sale…
Barely one week after he stated that Igbo should not aspire to the Presidency, Senator Arthur Nzeribe has been taken to the cleaners. Commenting on the former senator’s remarks, Senator Emmanuel Onwe, Director of Operations, Njiko Igbo, stated that Nzeribe had no moral right to make such a statement, since he has not, in recent…