President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday in Abuja attributed the increase in social vices to deterioration of value system in the country. Among the social vices enumerated by the President are armed robbery, cultism, ritual killing and drug peddling.
British Prime Minister, David Cameron, on Friday said his government might consider cutting off aid to Nigeria over same sex marriage bill passed by the House of Representatives on Thursday. The Senate had passed its own version in November 2011. Cameron spoke on a British Broadcasting Corporation programme monitored in Lagos.
In 2008, Mazi Amaechi paid a woman (names withheld) from Ebonyi State but married to an Imo State indigene, the sum of N8,000 and a teenage boy named Onukwube was brought to live with them as a house-help. Initially, there was communication problem because they couldn’t understand each other’s dialect.
Presidential candidate on the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC), Alhaji Bashir Tofa, has stressed the need to convoke a National Conference as a major step to address the nation’s challenges.
It is not sure that the Anambra State governorship election will be conducted next year, as a group is planning to disrupt the poll. The group, the Movement for the Conduct of Local Government Election in Anambra State, has threatened to disrupt the election if the much awaited council poll was conducted by Governor Peter…
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has said that all the illiterate traditional rulers in the state would be given the opportunity to go to school to enhance their ability to deliver robust service to their people through the Community Government Council (CGC). Okorocha spoke while addressing the traditional rulers and other stakeholders at Ahiajoku…
ABAKALIKI — CHAIRMAN Senate Committee on Police Affairs, Senator Paulinus Igwe-Nwagu, yesterday, raised alarm that suspected terrorists were gradually infiltrating Ebonyi State from Niger Republic and other parts of Africa. Receiving the leadership and members of Ebonyi State council of Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, at his country home at Oriuzor, Ebonyi State, Igwe Nwagu,…
The crisis that engulfed the University of Uyo in Akwa Ibom State, which led to the killing of a student and the closure of the institution, yesterday claimed the lives of the Senate President of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, and four others in a ghastly motor accident. Seven other students also sustained…
Investigations into the activities of the co-owner of Amigo Supermarket, Mustapha Fawaz, and three other Lebanese – Abdalah Tahini, Talal Rouda and Khosai Nouridine – arrested in connection with the armoury and Hezbollah terror cell in Bompai, Kano State, have taken an international dimension, according to the State Security Service. Also, preliminary investigations have established…
The leadership of the Imo State Joint Negotiating Council, JNC, Thursday, issued a stern warning that it might be constrained to call out workers again on industrial action if the state government failed to address the myriads of workers’ problems. JNC Chairman, Comrade Coleman Okwara, read the riot act when he addressed workers at the…