A key city in northeast Nigeria was on lockdown Sunday as the military enforced a 24-hour curfew and blocked supply routes in its sweeping campaign against Islamist insurgents. The operation against Boko Haram, the group that wants an Islamic state in northern Nigeria, is aimed at retaking territory seized by the militants and ridding the [...]
AS the onslaught against Boko Haram insurgency continues, the Defence Headquarters, Ministry of Defence, on Saturday, in its update of its troops’ operation, said it had arrested 65 persons confirmed to be terrorists, while attempting to infiltrate Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. A statement by the Director, Defence Information, Brigadier-General Chris Olukolade, in Abuja on [...]
SINCE the commencement of what is looking like a realistic and possible merger deal by the leading opposition parties in the country, namely Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP) and a faction of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) ahead 2015 general elections, the ruling Peoples Democratic [...]
There are possible indications that President Goodluck Jonathan might have concluded plans to offload four ministers from his cabinet in a reshuffle that is about to take place this month. The four ministers-Elders Godsday Orubebe, Mr. Bala Muhammad, Stella Odua and Labaran Maku, are said to have indicated interest in the 2015 election and had [...]
The Professor of Virology in an interview said what is playing out in his home state was not only “unfortunate, but disgraceful, embarrassing and scandalous, not only to Rivers but to the entire country.” Commenting on the face-off between President Goodluck Jonathan and Governor Rotimi Amaech, he said, the president is surrounded by those who [...]
People have been wondering why warriors of Ombatse traditional religion were able to ambush and successfully kill about a hundred policemen and State Security Service (SSS) operatives answering a distress call on Wednesday, May 13, without even a single member of Ombatse being killed. In an interview he granted Nigeria’s oldest newspaper, Tribune, the National [...]
Chief Segun Adegoke was a Commissioner for Information under the government of the late Chief Adekunle Ajasin; he is also a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State. He spoke with journalists on the recent judgment of the election petition tribunal and the political permutations towards 2015, among others. YINKA OLADOYINBO bring [...]
Nigerian First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan has disassociated her self from ongoing crisis currently rocking the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, saying that she never had any meeting with its chairman, Victor Umeh in her bedroom. Dame Patience also debunked the rumour that she was supporting the factional chairman of the party, Umeh, saying that [...]
Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Latter Rain Assembly and former running mate to the presidential candidate of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Muhammadu Buhari, was the one who moved for the dissolution of the CPC to pave way for its merger into the All Progressives Congress (APC). Before last week’s convention of the CPC, Bakare [...]
Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Samuel Odulana Odugade 1, yesterday installed the Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi and his wife, Florence, the Aare Atunluse and Yeye Atunluse of Ibadanland. The ceremony was witnessed by a large crowd of political bigwigs and senior citizens of Ibadan. Speaking after his formal installation along with his wife and the [...]
