NASU to embark on nationwide strike on tuesday

The deplorable state of the university system since members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) embarked on an indefinite strike to demand that the government make good its promises as stated in the 2009 agreement the government had with the union, may even go worse as the Non-Academic...

El-Rufai needs psychiatric test – CAN scribe

Says, religion behind  northern govs’ motives In this interview with FRED ITUA, the Secretary General of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Dr Musa Asake, says, in spite of  the clamour for a president of northern extraction in 2015, Christians...

How I escaped death in Kenya mall attack –Soyinka

•Nobel laureate, JP Clark, others condemn incident By HENRY AKUBUIRO But for a stroke of luck, Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, would have been among the dead in the terror attack that took place at the Nairobi Westgate mall in Kenya last weekend. Speaking...

Jonathan, others eulogise Nwodo at burial

From PETRUS OBI, Enugu President Goodluck Jonathan, among other dignitaries who graced the burial of the late Justice Regina Oby Nwodo, an Appeal Court judge and wife of former Information minister, Chief Nnia Nwodo described...

Iran nuclear: 'Shift in Tehran tone' hailed at UN

The US-Iran meeting in New York represented the highest-level direct contact between the countries in six years US and European allies have welcomed what they called a "significant shift" in Iran's attitude to its nuclear programme, after high-level UN talks. US Secretary of State John Kerry...

Again ASUU rejects Presidency offer, says strike continues

By GABRIEL DIKE The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)  again rejected the offer by the Presidency put forward by the Viice President Namadi Sambo yesterday at a meeting to resolve the almost three-month-old strike by the lecturers. Also, ASUU...

Deportation saga: Fashola apologises to Igbo

BY COSMOS OMEGHO, NDUBUISI ORJI and OLUWOLE FAROTIMI  Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has formally tendered an unreserved apology to the Igbo over the deportation of some people to their states of origin, saying the state government’s action...

Tension in Anambra over INEC guber list

Nwoye, PDP appeal Ukachukwu’s court victory nEzeemo, PPA candidate, raises campaign team From Geoffrey Anyanwu, Awka As tension mounts in Anambra State over release of the list of candidates for the November 16, 2013 governorship election, Comrade...

Senate set to dump police BCMR as lawmakers may debate motion today

The Senate is set to move against what it described as unauthorized introduction of the Biometric Central Motor Registration (BCMR) scheme by the police. Its opposition to the new Police BCMR is based on the rejection of same by the Presidency on two occasions.  Barring any change in plan,...

furniture maker sentenced to death by hanging

A Delta State High Court sitting in Warri yesterday sentenced one Chijioke Ede, a furniture maker to death by hanging, for robbing a couple and raping their teenage daughter. The condemned armed robber and rapist was arraigned before Justice Marshall Mukoro on...

Libel: Magazine to pay Oshiomhole N25m

FROM TONY OSAUZO, Benin A Benin High Court has awarded Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, N25million as damages in a libel suit the governor instituted against Docklands Communication and one Loye Amzat, publishers and editor of the News of the People Magazine. Governor...

Failed trip to marine world: Woman trapped in Ezu river

From Geoffrey Anyanwu, Awka The Ezu river in Anambra State was in the news again yesterday when passersby at the Ezu River Bridge in Amansea, Awka North Local Government Area of the state saw a 43-year-old woman in the middle of the river alive and waged...

2015: We’ll resist anti-Yoruba pacts –Activists

By WILLY EYA and CHINELO OBOGO Barely 24 hours after President Goodluck Jonathan despatched his Special Adviser on Niger Delta and Chairman, Committee on Amnesty Programme, Kingsley Kuku, to two Yoruba pressure organisations,  the Coalition of Oodua Self-Determination...

Adeyemi, Goje clash in Senate over PDP crisis

…Mark: ‘There’s only one PDP’ From ADETUTU FOLASADE-KOYI, Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) crisis resonated in the Senate yesterday when two members openly disagreed over the status of the party in the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly. Senate President David Mark deftly...

'I am alive, hale and hearty', says Nigerian terrorist 'Shekau'

• Speaks on Youtube BY EMMA EMEOZOR, LAGOS & TIMOTHY OLANREWAJU, MAIDUGURIBarely one month after the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) declared him dead in a border town, following gunshot wounds, Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, yesterday spoke on Youtube, claiming to be alive.The JTF, had,...

FG proposes N273.1bn for SURE-P programme in 2014

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan | credits: File copy The Federal Government has proposed N273.1bn for the funding of projects expected to be executed under the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme in 2014. It has also recommended N1.2bn as running cost for the members of the board...

Jonathan meets Obama, urges global concensus against terrorism

President Goodluck Jonathan | credits: File copy President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday held talks with United States President Barack Obama in New York ahead of the 68th session of the United Nations. Jonathan, at the talks, called for a stronger global consensus and determination to end...

Kenyan attack: Nigerian shoppers demand better security in malls

| credits: File copy Following the terrorist attacks on the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya that left scores of Kenyans and foreigners dead, shopping mall patrons in the country are apprehensive that a similar incident may happen in Nigeria because most of the plazas are not adequately...

Police arraign suspects before looking for evidence – CJN

Chief Justice of Nigeria, Aloma Mukhtar | credits: File copy The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mariam Mukhtar, has said security agencies in the country take suspects to court before looking for evidence to prosecute them. Justice Mukhtar identified the practice as one of the reasons...

Rebel govs, Atiku may face PDP disciplinary panel

Former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar | credits: File copy The seven aggrieved governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party may be summoned to appear before the disciplinary committee of the party if they fail to attend the October 7 meeting with some selected...

Rivers Police Commissioner Mingles With Criminals- Amechi

Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi | credits: File copy RIVERS State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has accused the State Police Commissioner, Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu, of mingling with criminals in the state. Amaechi, who spoke at the maiden edition of Rivers International Fashion Week...

IBORI STOLE DELTA’S N80BN, RIBADU TELLS UK COURT

Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Malam Nuhu Ribadu, has said that James Ibori “stole or wasted” more than half of all the money that accrued to Delta state when he was governor from 1999 to 2007. Ribadu spoke in evidence at the ongoing assets confiscation hearing...

Court affirms Willie Obiano as APGA candidate

From ALOYSIUS ATTAH, Onitsha The Federal High Court sitting in Awka presided over by Justice Muhammed Salihu on Friday set aside the interim order made on Monday last week, which directed the submission of the names of Chief Chike Obidigbo and Dr. William Obiano as APGA governorship candidates in...

15yr Old rapes three children including a 10 months old baby, ...nabbed by court

A 15-year-old-boy has been remanded in prison custody by an Upper Area Court in Maraba, Nasarawa State for alleged r*ping three children, including a 10-month old baby. The accused who lives in Rafin Kwara Masaka, was charged for allegedly having carnal knowledge of two sisters, a six year-old and...

Lack Of Unity Affecting The Progress Of S-East – Nnaji

Crisis of values, lack of unity in practical terms and absence of joint planning of development has been identified as some of the often over-looked factors militating against the socio-economic development of the South-east by former Minister of Power, Prof. Barth Nnaji. Nnaji, who is also the...

NOLLYWOOD: TONTO DIKE IN A SOFT PORN MOVIE SCANDAL

Nollywood star, Tonto Dike, is currently embroiled in a war of words with her fans for acting in a soft p*rn movie called Dirty Secret, In the movie produced by Sanga Entertainment, the Nollywood actress and a lover kiss and wag tongues in a slow pace as the actress goes semi-nude, exposing private...

Anambra Guber: PPA, Ezeemo retool game

The soapbox lull in the  November 16, governorship election in Anambra state was enlivened recently with the defection of Chief Godwin Ezeemo from the All Progressives Congress (APC) .to the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), with hordes of his supporters. Ezeemo, had engaged the APC in a...

ASUU Strike may end this week

Hope of an early resolution of the strike embarked on by the public universities’ lecturers rises as the Vice-President Namadi Sambo met with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities in Abuja on Thursday. The meeting held behind closed doors had in attendance the supervising Minister...

Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) Job Vacancies: Recruitment in Progress

Shell companies have been finding and producing oil and gas around the world for over a century. Today, we have interests in exploration and production ventures in more than 80 countries and employ approximately 90,000 people. This is a technically challenging work environment characterised by a continuing need for research, the pursuit of new technology, and the adoption of new ways...

Nigerian immigration recruitment: Apply Here

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GEJ rewards Blessing Okagbare with N3 million

From JULIANA TAIWO-OBALONYE, Abuja President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday announced cash reward of N3 million for Blessing Okagbare, who won medals in the long jump event and 200 meters race at the 2013 IAAF World Athletic Championship in Moscow and N3.5 million for her coach, Daniel Esebinimo....

The stowaway teenager regrets his act

FROM TONY OSAUZO, Benin The stowaway teenager, Ricky Daniel Ohikhena, who, on August 24, this year hid in a wheel  well of an Arik Air craft from Benin to Lagos, has said he did not know that he took a risk when he did that, promising not to do it again.“I regret it. I want to go home, I am...

Sacked minister weeps as Jonathan shakes cabinet

… Maku rules out politics in reshuffle From JULIANA TAIWO-OBALONYE, Abuja Sixteen days after the Youth Minister, Alhaji Inuwa Abdulkadir, was relieved of his post, President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday, carried out a major cabinet reshuffle that removed nine ministers. The President announced...

Corruption (Atiku Vs Obasanjo): Stop taunting me, Atiku tells Obasanjo

FROM TAIWO AMODU, Abuja Former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has reacted to media reports, attributed to his former boss, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in which he was linked with corruption offences. Obasanjo, in an Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) magazine, Zero Tolerance interview,...

JONATHAN SACKS NINE MINISTERS

Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked nine cabinet ministers amid serious divisions in the governing party. Two weeks ago, seven of the country's powerful state governors and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar formed a splinter-group in the PDP. They were angry...

ENUGU STATE LG POLL CRISIS!

THE STAGE is getting set for another council election in Enugu State as the chairman of the Enugu state Independent Electoral Commission ENSIEC, Mr. Boniface Eneh, recently rolled out an election time table that will guide the conduct of party primaries, scheduled for next month while the inter party election proper will hold on November 2, 2013. Enugu state is among the states of the federation...

Ajudua is granted bail once again!

By AKEEB ALARAPE Relief once again came the way of embattled lawyer and socialite, Chief Fred Ajudua as a Lagos High Court, sitting in Ikeja granted him bail. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had arraigned Ajudua and his co-accused, Charles Hijiudu, in...

IBB Offers Peace Deal to the PDP

From JULIANA TAIWO-OBALONYE, Abuja As a prelude to last night’s meeting with stakeholders, President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday afternoon met behind closed-door with former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida and former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic...

Just amidst the Crisis, 20 PDP Chairmen Okays Goodluck for 2015

** Kano, Kwara, Sokoto, Niger, and Jigawa owe allegiance to Atiku group. **state chairmen absent are those of Imo, Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi, Abia, Bayelsa, Kebbi, Borno, Bauchi, Delta and Edo as they were having their regional summit sent their support. President Goodluck Jonathan received a moral...

Jubilation as Olu of Warri rescinds decision to change title

… Rita Lori-Ogbebor, others laud Ogiame effort FROM EMMANUEL OGOIGBE, Warri Itsekiris in Delta State yesterday turned out in their thousands jubilating over the decision of the Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse II to rescind the planned removal of ‘Ogiame’ from his traditional...

Niger Delta Threatensto Seceede from Nigeria

From IHEANACHO NWOSU, Abuja A group in the Niger Delta , Niger Delta Progressive Alliance (NPA) yesterday threatened that the region will consider seceeding from Nigeria if President Jonathan is barred by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from contesting the...

"We Cannot Leave PDP for Tukur"- Lamido

… Gov: Shut party office ‘ll be reopened From ISMAIL OMIPIDAN, Kaduna A leading member of the ‘new Peoples Democratic Party, “New PDP”, and Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido has said that those who masterminded the sealing-off of their secretariat in Abuja last...