Boko Haram gunmen on Sunday opened fire in a college dormitory in northeast Nigeria as the students slept, killing 40, in the latest massacre blamed on the Islamist insurgents. All of the dead were students of the College of Agriculture in the town of Gujba in Yobe state, the... Read more
A meeting of the Governors of Nigeria’s South East and South South geopolitical zones was held Sunday in Enugu even as the body failed to undertake the endorsement of the much vaunted second term plan of President Goodluck Jonathan. Governors Rochas Okorocha of Imo State , Adams Oshimole of Edo, and their counterpart,... Read more
By Utum Etim The recent pressure mounted on President Goodluck Jonathan by some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) dissenters to remove his chief of staff, Chief Mike Oghiadome and Political Adviser, Ahmed Gulak, was, to say the least, made in utmost bad faith and mischievous. The duo may have been noticed by... Read more
The splinter Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) group led by Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje have claimed that it received intelligence reports that the Presidency was putting finishing touches to what it calls “Operation Total Crackdown on G7 and their allies in the New PDP”, which is allegedly aimed at to... Read more
A Nigerian terror suspect accused of trying to help al-Qaeda in Yemen appeared before a United States federal courtroom on Friday. The suspect, Lawal Babafemi, was accused of training with members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and using his English skills to help publish the terrorist magazine... Read more
The Chairman of the splinter faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, has condemned what he described as “the rape of the country’s economy by the Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Administration.” The Baraje-led PDP faction stated this in a news release issued in Abuja on Thursday... Read more
From: Diana Okon-Effiong Gov. Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta, has inaugurated no less than 25 Education Special Marshals and 100 Education Marshals (EduMarshals) with a charge to ensure that all school-age children attend school compulsorily. Uduaghan, who said that education was the bedrock of every society, noted that the inauguration of the... Read more
Stakeholders including opinion leaders, women and youth groups from the 12 Local Government Areas making up the Eket Senatorial District of Akwa Ibom State have commended Governor Godswill Akpabio over his avowed position to support justice, fairness and equity, a disposition they maintain has greatly accounted... Read more
From Arodiegwu Eziukwu (Yenogoa) Environmental Rights Action/Friends of Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has called for a prompt response to the ongoing oil spill in Ikenghenbiri, Southern Ijaw council area in Bayelsa. The group has criticized the slow response of Italian oil firm Agip on the oil spill reported over one... Read more
A PRESS STATEMENT BY THE DIRECTOR OF CHURCH AND SOCIETY OF THE CATHOLIC SECRETARIAT OF NIGERIA AND EXECUTIVE SECRETARY/CEO OF CARITAS NIGERIA/JDPC FR EVARISTUS BASSEY Gentlemen of the press, these are the days when silence is no longer golden, when the fear of being drowned in the cacophony... Read more
