Daily Archives: February 19, 2013
Jonathan orders security agencies to locate, rescue kidnapped foreign workers
President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered security agencies especially the inspector general of police, to take all necessary steps to locate and rescue the foreign construction workers who were abducted from their camp by terrorists last Saturday in Bauchi State Read More »
Kufour delivers The Sun lecture today
Notable personalities from within and outside Nigeria will converge on the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja this morning, as the former President of Ghana, Mr. John Kufour, delivers the 10th Anniversary Lecture of The Sun Publishing Limited. Already, Kufour has ... Read More »
Jonathan returns 2013 budget as face-off with N’Assembly worsens
Rather than assent to the N4.987 trillion 2013 budget forwarded to him for assent in the third week of January, President Goodluck Jonathan will this week return the document to the National Assembly. The President presented a N4.902 trillion budget ... Read More »
APGA leadership crisis worsens
The leadership crisis in the All Progressives Grand Alliance(APGA) got messier yesterday, as the ousted National Chairman, Chief Victor Umeh and factional leader of the party, Alhaji Sadeeq Masala, insisted that they were still in charge. Read More »
2015: Only death’ll stop me from contesting – Buhari
Former head of state, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) has said that only death will separate him from politics and 2015 presidential contest. General Buhari who was the 2011 presidential candidate of the opposition Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) that had ... Read More »
Perform and walk away in 2015, Aliyu tells Jonathan
The Governor of Niger State, in what appears to be a subtle challenge to President Goodluck Jonathan, has urged him to deliver on developmental projects so he will vacate the scene a happy man in 2015. The Niger governor had ... Read More »
The Great Begging Game
This sounds unbelievable but it is a fact. Several born-again Christians who sought for restitution from the management of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and the National Examinations Council (NECO) are reluctant to return the certificates Read More »
2015: PDP has no anointed candidate – Metuh
National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh, has denounced speculation that the party was planning to give automatic tickets to sitting governors on the party’s platform and the incumbent president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, for 2015 general ... Read More »
Jilted man kills lover, pregnant woman, five others
In what seemed like a horror film, a 27-year-old man walked into his girlfriend’s family home at Igando, a suburb of Lagos and shot dead seven persons, including an eight-month pregnant mother of three. He also shot and wounded two ... Read More »
