Minister of Special Duties and Chairman, Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges in the North, Alhaji Tanimu Turaki, yesterday said that there was no basis for the Boko Haram Islamic sect to back out of the ceasefire agreement reached with the Federal Government. He based his position on the discussions held…
ELDER statesman and Chairman of The Patriots, Professor Ben Nwabueze, SAN, has described as gratuitous, comments attributed to leader of the South-South Assembly, Chief Edwin Clark referring to him as a person “camouflaging (his) political ideas and ambition with intellectualism “and an “unpatriotic saboteur of the democratic process.” The legal icon, in a statement noted…
The fracas that erupted Monday over who controls the Rivers State House of Assembly, yesterday, spilled to the streets, leaving several people injured. At the centre are 27 legislators loyal to Governor Rotimi Amaechi and five others belonging to the opposition. Yesterday’s street fight attracted thugs who descended on pro-Amaechi supporters, forcing them to retreat…
The Presidency on Tuesday said President Goodluck Jonathan did not need the support of the spokesman for the Northern Elders’ Forum, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, or “his North” to win the 2015 presidential election if he decides to contest. Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Dr. Ahmed Gulak, said this in an interview with…
The Benue State Police Command has said nine persons were killed on Monday in a communal clash in Awe, a Benue/Nasarawa boundary town. Police spokesman, Daniel Ezeala, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Makurdi, the state capital. Ezeala said the deceased have been deposited at…
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday convicted five members of the dreaded Islamic Boko Haram sect for bombing the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, office and the All Christian Fellowship Church in Suleja and Abuja. Four of the convicts got life imprisonment. The bombings, masterminded by the terrorists, resulted in killings of scores…
CHRISTIANS in the 17 Southern states under the aegis of Southern CAN, yesterday, described the recent ceasefire deal reportedly reached between the Federal Government and members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram as a ruse, stressing that such a deal will only be meaningful if the sect had opted to surrender and lay down their…
FORMER President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, reviewed criticisms that greeted his leadership style when he was president, saying all mistakes his critics claimed he made were “successful mistakes.” Many Nigerians, especially people from the South West, had severally scored his eight-year rule low, particularly for turning his back on the zone. Chief Obasanjo, who was…
Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Tuesday, accused members of Association of Igbo Youths Organisation,
Former Nigerian Ambassador to Germany, Akinjide Osuntokun, on Monday urged the Federal Government not wait for the Yoruba to revolt before addressing the marginalisation affecting the South-West. The Professor of History spoke during the 74th birthday lecture of the Chairman of Splash FM, Chief Adebayo Akande, at the University of Ibadan. Speaking on ‘The place…