Latest news emerging from South Africa has it that the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg on has sentenced the leader of the Movement of the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, Henry Okah, to 24 years in prison. It will be recalled that on 21 January, Okah was found guilty on 13 counts of [...]
The Anambra State Government on Monday opened a condolence register in honour of the late literary icon, Professor Chinua Achebe. In a brief ceremony held at the Government House, Awka, the Deputy Governor, Emeka Sibeudu, led other government officials, including commissioners, to sign the register. Mr. Sibeudu said that the state government would be fully [...]
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s home state of Bayelsa signed a law on Wednesday approving the death penalty for convicted kidnappers, in a region were abductions by criminal gangs are common. Kidnapping for ransom in the southern Niger Delta and offshore of the oil region is a multi-million dollar business. The vast majority of people taken [...]
Newly-formed mega party, the All Progressive Congress, APC, will any moment from now announce the composition of its national executive members, Dailypost has learnt. The four political parties that make up the new alliance are: Action Congress of Nigeria, Congress for Progressive Change, All Nigeria Peoples Party and All Progressive Grand Alliance. It was gathered [...]
ENUGU State governor, Mr Sullivan Chime, returned to Nigeria on Thursday, after about five months outside the country. The governor was said to have arrived through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, through a British Airways flight from London Heathrow Airport. Sources said the governor immediately headed for the Enugu Governor’s Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja, but [...]
THE Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), on Thursday, began evacuation of all abandoned aircraft in airports across the country, as the special task force committee set up on the project commenced the exercise. The evacuation exercise began from the Murtala Mohammed Airport (MMA), Lagos and it was expected to move to Abuja airport after [...]
UNKNOWN gunmen on Saturday attacked the convoy of the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, killing four of his palace guards. The incident took place in the early hours of the day, after the Emir’s convoy departed from a Qur’anic graduation ceremony at Murtala Muhammed Mosque, in Kumbotso Local Government Area. A few minutes later, [...]
The Federal Government today (Monday) said it will deploy troops to troubled Mali before the end of next week to liberate that country from extremist invasion. President Goodluck Jonathan said this at a cocktail he hosted at the Presidential Villa for members of the diplomatic corps resident in the country. Jonathan said “We are confronted [...]
Governor Sullivan Chime, who has been missing from Enugu State since September 2012 when he applied accumulated leave that ought to have lasted only one and a half months, is battling heart disease in London’s Cromwell Hospital, sources have told SaharaReporters. Despite efforts to ferry him home to quell public restlessness in the State, the [...]
Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomole, has threatened to publish the report submitted to him by the police to drive home his accusations that the police was involved in the murder of his private secretary, Olaitan Oyerinde. This is coming after the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, labelled the accusation by the former Labour Union [...]
Former Governor of the Central Bank (CBN), Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has denied reports that he was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday, insisting that rather, he was invited by the agency to make clarifications on some issues on a matter under investigation. However, a source at the commission said Soludo [...]
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the removal of the National Secretary of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and former governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, from office forthwith. The court sacked Oyinlola yesterday and asked that he be put in prison for criminal disobedience of court order, following a [...]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission today released two Imo state officials on “administrative bail”. The two Imo state officials were arrested on Wednesday over a N47 billion loan transaction undertaken by Governor Rochas okorocha. EFCC sources told Saharareporters that Imo state commissioner of finance, Deacon Okafor Chike John and the accountant general of the [...]
Former Governor of the Central Bank (CBN), Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has denied reports that he was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday, insisting that rather, he was invited by the agency to make clarifications on some issues on a matter under investigation. However, a source at the commission said Soludo [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan has charged federal universities to solve the problem of limited access to tertiary education by expanding their network facilities to cater for online students. Jonathan, who made the statement at the 39th convocation ceremony of 5,249 students of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, said it was not enough for the existing universities [...]
Residents of Kuru in Jos South local government area of Plateau state, North Central Nigeria went to the streets in protest of an attack on their community, which resulted in the death of one person and the injury of another by unknown gunmen. The angry youths said they were out to express their anger over [...]
But for providence, Nigeria would have recorded the death of another State Governor in a space of two weeks, as Governor Idris Wada of Kogi State, yesterday, narrowly escaped a ghastly motor accident. The accident, however claimed the life of his aide-de-camp (ADC), Assistant Suprintent of Police (ASP) Idris Mohammed, who died on the spot [...]
Abia state governor, Mr. Theodore Orji, has granted state pardon to eight prisoners in the state in the spirit of Christmas. The pardoned prisoners are Ngozi Simon, Ngozi Esina, Okwuonu Eme and Lawrence Egbu. Others Chibuzo Azuonwe, Sunday Amala, Chidiebere Jacob, and Pius Anizo. In his Christmas goodwill message, Orji felicitated with Christians across the [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday gave reasons why some Nigerians think his government was handling issues of governance at a snail pace, saying it was because he prefers thinking thoroughly about issues before acting, as rushing things could lead to costly mistakes. “By human thinking, our administration is slow, I won’t say we are slow, but [...]
Gunmen have shot and injured Alhaji Kambai Sumaila, the Interim Management Chairman of Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area of Kano State. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, Malam Magaji Majiya, who confirmed the incident, said the driver of the chairman was killed on the spot while Sumaila sustained injuries. Majiya said investigation [...]
“Whilst I feel tongue tied that we are witnessing another ‘air mishap’ that has taken the lives of fellow Nigerians, I am utterly shocked to hear of the jubilation in certain Northern political quarters and muslim youths in Kaduna State. Just too too cruddy and it is beyond the fugacious razzmatazz of the moment. “I [...]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Thursday, declared former governor of Kogi State, Abubakar Audu wanted for offences bordering on conspiracy, stealing and misappropriation of public fund. The action followed the failure of the suspect to respond to invitation by the anti- graft agency. Attempt by the EFCC to arrest Audu at his 32, [...]
The Federal Government yesterday said that under the newly-approved sugar master plan, imported packaged sugar has been banned with effect from January 2013 in line with its Industrial Revolution Plan. The Minister of Trade and Investment, Mr. Olusegun Aganga, disclosed that the government was taking the issue of industrial policy implementation seriously in order to [...]
The Nigerian Navy said, Monday, that contrary to insinuations that the Augusta 105 helicopter that crashed in Okoloba community in Bayelsa state killing Kaduna state governor, Patrick Yakowa and General Owoye Azazi had engine problems, the helicopter was certified to fly by a ‘Certified Technical Support Engineer’. It said the helicopter ‘had her last scheduled [...]
Contrary to the news making the rounds that the bed-ridden Enugu State Governor Sullivan Chime has joined the late Yakowa and others, Enugu State government Sunday, debunked the rumours, saying the governor is alive and healthy. According to the State Commissioner for Information, Mr Chucks Ugwuoke, the rumour is from the pit of hell, as [...]
