While we have been busy talking about Nigeria of today, I wonder if we have spared a thought about how this country will be in the next TWENTY-FIVE years. On October 1, 1979, when Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari was sworn-in as president, Goodluck Jonathan was just a 22 year-old …
Read More »President-elect to emerge today –Jega
The Independent National Electoral Commission has said that despite the extension of Saturday’s elections till Sunday in some parts of the country, the results of the presidential poll will be declared on Monday(today). INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, gave the assurance as some of results from wards, local government areas …
Read More »Boko Haram ‘abduct 500 women and children’ in Nigeria
Boko Haram inflicted a final act of vengeance on a town in northern Nigeria, abducting up to 500 women and children as the gunmen fled a counter offensive, according to local people. The insurgents rounded up their victims as they evacuated Damasak in the face of an attack by Chad’s …
Read More »Chibok girls are in Gwoza, freed captive says
More than 200 girls who were abducted by Boko Haram from government secondary school, Chibok, Borno State, in April 2014 are in Gwoza, The Cable, an online medium, on Wednesday quoted Mbutu Papka, a woman who was recently freed after eight months in the sect’s captivity, to have said. Papka, …
Read More »Foreign media plot to embarrass Nigeria – Minister
The supervising Minister of Information, Edem Duke, has alleged of a plot by a section of the foreign media to put Nigeria in bad light. He stated this on Tuesday in Abuja while inaugurating the newly appointed Director General of Voice of Nigeria, VON, Sampson Worlu. Mr. Duke, who is …
Read More »Jonathan admits Nigeria lied over Morocco phone row; orders probe
President Goodluck Jonathan admitted Friday that he did not speak on telephone with the King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, as claimed last week by Nigeria’s foreign affairs ministry, an apparently false claim that sparked a diplomatic spat between the two countries with Morocco recalling its ambassador. The president ordered a …
Read More »Tension in Bayelsa as ex-militant leaders, police clash
Bayelsa State was soaked in tension on Friday after the police and protesting ex-militants and their leaders clashed in Yenagoa, the state capital. The aggrieved ex-militants were said to have taken over the road to protest alleged meddling of their pipeline surveillance contracts by the Governor of the state, Mr. …
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