Fresh facts have emerged on why President Goodluck Jonathan and four northern governors visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, on Saturday. Governors Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Aliyu Wammako (Sokoto) and Sule Lamido (Jigawa) met Obasanjo shortly after President Jonathan had left Obasanjo’s Hilltop Mansion. The governors, however, avoided…
Luck ran out of three suspected Boko Haram members at the weekend in Borno State as they were lynched by an angry mob. This was as about 50 other suspected terrorists were arrested in the state. The three suspects came all the way from Bama Local Government and invaded the El-Amin Daggash mosque in the…
ELDER Statesman and First Republic Minister of Aviation, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi is the last man standing in Southern Nigeria among the generation of nationalists who fought for the nation’s independence. He is also the only surviving minister from the South that served in the first post-independence cabinet. The quartet in that cabinet still surviving are…
Senator and former Governor Ahmed Sani, the Yerima Bakura, has finally had his way. The Nigerian Senate has bowed to his will and agreed to be silent about the age that young girls can get married in Nigeria. What this means once it is followed through and enshrined in our laws and Constitution is that…
The Anglican Church in Nigeria has called for capital punishment for members of the Boko Haram sect. The Bishop of Kubwa Diocese, Rt. Rev Duke Akamisoko, said this in an interview with SUNDAY PUNCH on the sidelines of a press briefing to herald the forthcoming Synod meeting of the Church. According to him, until President…
For quite a while since he wisely recoiled to his cocoon after his prolonged trial for allegedly sponsoring Boko Haram insurgency, Senator Ali Ndume has been out of the news camera lens, presumably to avoid undue controversy. When the Chairman, Senate Committee on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), however, eventually decided to bow to the pressure…
Prominent Northern leaders have dismissed as invalid and of no effect whatsoever, an alleged deal between President Goodluck Jonathan and some leading Islamic scholars aimed at ensuring his success in the 2015 presidential election.
Serving senator and former governor of Zamfara State, Ahmed Sani Yerima, yesterday amplified his support for early marriage when he stated that he could give out his six-year-old daughter in marriage, if need be. Yerima had on Tuesday successfully prevented an amendment to the second part of Section 22 of the constitution by the Senate,…
The undercurrents in the PDP ahead of the 2015 presidential race played out on a grand scale yesterday in Abeokuta with President Goodluck Jonathan, former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Governors Murtala Nyako (Adamawa State), Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Aliyu Wamako (Sokoto) and Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano) as dramatis personae. President Jonathan and the governors were on separate…
In what appears as a contradiction of a ceasefire deal announced last week by Special Duties Minister, Kabiru Turaki, President Goodluck Jonathan has denied any peace deal between the Federal Government and the Boko Haram islamist sect. Jonathan, who disclosed this in an interview broadcast by Cable Network News, CNN on Friday said his administration…