Daily Archives: February 6, 2013

‘I apologise to Abians for installing T.A. Orji their governor’

‘I apologise to Abians for installing T.A. Orji their governor’
February 6, 2013 75 Comments »

Former Governor of Abia State, founder and former presidential candidate of the Peoples Progressive Alliance (PPA), Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, who recently rejoined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), spoke to LEO SOBECHI (in Kalu’s Camp Neya country home, Igbere, Bende ... Read More »

Bring the cup, Jonathan charges Eagles

Bring the cup, Jonathan charges Eagles
February 6, 2013 31 Comments »

President Goodluck Jonathan has charged the Super Eagles to go ahead and win all the remaining matches and bring home the Nations Cup, promising that something great was in store for them if they do just that. In a call ... Read More »

10 govs battle-ready to sack PDP in 2015

10 govs battle-ready to sack PDP in 2015
February 6, 2013 68 Comments »

Plans by opposition parties to wrest power from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in 2015 got a boost yesterday as 10 governors converged in Lagos endorsing the project. The governors who fully backed the merger plans vowed to stop the ... Read More »

Confusion over kidnapped Anglican priest

Confusion over kidnapped Anglican priest
February 6, 2013 43 Comments »

The kidnap of an Anglican Priest, Rev. James Achugbu has thrown Umunnachi community into confusion, even as they applied various strategies to know his whereabouts. Rev. Achugbu of St. Paul’s Parish, Umunnachi, was kidnapped last Saturday while he was driving Read More »

THISDAY bomber: FG asks court to stop journalists’ coverage

THISDAY bomber: FG asks court to stop journalists’ coverage
February 6, 2013 10 Comments »

The desire of the Federal Government to bar journalists from covering the trial of the suspected bomber of SOJ Plaza in Kaduna state occupied by ThisDay, The Moment and The Sun newspapers made the government to ask court to stop ... Read More »

Kakih vs. Suswam: Gov urges court to strike out case

Kakih vs. Suswam: Gov urges court to strike out case
February 6, 2013 4 Comments »

Governor Gabriel Suswam yesterday prayed the Appeal Court sitting in Makurdi to strike out the appeal, which Terver Kakih filed against him. The governor said Kakih, who contested the 2011 governorship primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with him ... Read More »

Village head, 14 others killed in another Nasarawa communal clash

Village head, 14 others killed in another Nasarawa communal clash
February 6, 2013 22 Comments »

No fewer than 15 persons, including the village head of Burum-Burum killed in another communal clash between the Eggon ethnic nationality and the Alago/ Gwandara ethnic extraction in Burum-Burum Village, Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. According to an ... Read More »

Jonathan to confer with Cameron, Hollande in London, France today

Jonathan to confer with Cameron, Hollande in London, France today
February 6, 2013 16 Comments »

President Goodluck Jonathan left Abuja last night for London and Paris to confer with the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron and the President of France, Mr. Francois Hollande on matters of vital interest to Nigeria, Britain and France. The ... Read More »

Jonathan is incompetent, ACN insists

Jonathan is incompetent, ACN insists
February 6, 2013 46 Comments »

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described incompetence, cluelessness and inconsistency as the hallmark of the Jonathan administration, contrary to the futile attempt by presidential aide, Doyin Okupe to pull the wool over the eyes of Nigerians through Read More »

How 73-yr-old man stabbed man, 27, to death –Youth leader

How 73-yr-old man stabbed man, 27, to death –Youth leader
February 6, 2013 5 Comments »

More facts have emerged on how a 73-year-old man, Williams Omobude Uwadia stabbed a 27-year-old man, Gabriel Amayahu Aigbosuria, to death at Obagie community near Benin, even as homicide detectives from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Edo State ... Read More »