Against the backdrop of the resolution of the 19 northern governors not to support any presidential candidate from the southern part of the country in 2015 election, elder statesman and Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark declared, yesterday, that President Goodluck Jonathan will contest the 2015 presidential election because former Presidents of the country contested for second term in office.
THE Senate, yesterday, dared former President Olusegun Obasanjo to be courageous and name the rogues and armed robbers in the National Assembly.
Contrary to the recommendation of the National Judicial Council, NJC, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke Bello, SAN, yesterday, adduced reasons why President Goodluck Jonathan will not reinstate the suspended President of the Court of Appeal(PCA), Justice Isa Ayo Salami, to office.
Separate attempts to bomb Police Headquarters in Abuja and Radio House, which houses Federal Government Radio stations, the Federal Ministry of Information and Communication among others were foiled, yesterday, as the two suspects who were armed with explosives were disarmed before they could wreak any havoc.
Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue weekend expressed the frustration of Northern Governors over their inability to halt the violence perpetrated by the Islamic militant group, Boko Haram, saying they have found it difficult to initiate a meeting with the group because it hides its identity and the governors do not fully understands its cardinal demands.
“Drop your arms and embrace dialogue”. With these words, the Federal Government restated its willingness to engage in talks with the Islamist group, Boko Haram, to end the spate of bombings, gun attacks and killings in some parts of the North.
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, declared that the numerous problems confronting the nation did not start from his regime which commenced only two years ago.
Ahead of the 2015 elections, the 19 Northern Governors, yesterday, expressed determination to sink their differences and unite to produce the president from the region in 2015. This was the outcome of their quarterly meeting held in Kaduna.
Against the background of alleged threats to arrest him on account of his predictions of a bloody response to any rigging of the 2015 elections, erstwhile military Head of State General Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, dared President Goodluck Jonathan to carry out the threat.
GENERAL Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, came under attack as a man desperate for political power following his assertion, Monday, of the possibility of a bloody revolution in 2015.
Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, in the 2011 election, General Mohammadu Buhari, rtd,yesterday identified three types of Boko Haram in the country with the Federal Government topping the list, followed by those he described as criminals who steal and kill Nigerians in the name of religion, with the third group as the original one led by late Muhammed Yusufu.
Six policemen were killed by gunmen weekend in separate incidents in Zamfara and Borno states while three other civilians were killed in Tukuntawa area of Kano Municipality.
For some residents, Edo State, at theweekend, became a theatre of war. Some gunmen struck at a policestation. There were conflicting accounts on the gunmen’s encounterwith the police. While one account had it that the policemen, unable to withstand the gunmen’s firepower, took to their heels, the policesaid they repelled the attack.
Residents of Maiduguri were yesterday awaken from their sleep as three bombs exploded in parts of the town making residents to scamper for safety.
