Group asks govt to fish out perpetrators of Jos violence
By Abdulwahab Abdulah A pressure group, the Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has called on the government to fish out the perpetrators of the religious violence in Jos which has claimed lives and property worth billions of naira. In a statement by Dr Ishaq Lakin Akintola, the group argued that violents of this nature were becoming […]
Yar’Adua: Nigerians suffer unduly, Say Anyim, Mantu, 39 others
A DELEGATION of 41 eminent Nigerians led by a former President of the Senate, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim and his Deputy, Senator Ibrahim Mantu, yesterday, called on President Umaru Yar‘Adua to urgently transmit a letter of his incapacitation to the National Assembly to salvage the nation’s democracy from danger.
My father lied, I was never killed, Muyideen Alayande tells Court
Led in evidence by the police prosecutor, Mr. Romanus Inuigbe, Muyideen said: “On the said date, my father told me to follow him to a place in Ikorodu to act a film. When we got there, he said I should kneel down, while he brought out a cloth, tied it on my face.
Tension in Agbarho as 2 die in vigilante custody
THERE was pandemonium at Agbarho community in Ughelli North local government area of Delta State, yesterday, when the corpses of two citizens allegedly seized by members of a vigilante team in the area a week earlier, were discovered with their kidneys, private organs and hearts missing.
Jos records relative peace, large casualties
RELATIVE calm returned to Jos, the Plateau State capital, yesterday, amidst outcry by some citizens of the menace of fake soldiers said to be silently invading homes and shooting innocent people.
Yar’Adua: Senators, Aondoakaa in secret talks in Abuja
A select group of Senators who are lawyers yesterday held a close door meeting with the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Michael Aoandoakaa with a view to find solution to the controversies generated by the absence of President Umaru Yar’Adua who is currently seeking medical treatment in Saudi Arabia.
NBA, Aondoakaa disagree over transfer of powers
By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA—The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, and the Attorney-General of the Federation, Chief Michael Kaase Aondoakaa, SAN, yesterday turned the valedictory court session of the immediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi to a ‘battle ground’. The cause of the disagreement between the two was the alleged failure of […]
Eagles zoom into quarter, final
A brace by Nigeria and Locomotive Moscow forward, Osaze Odemwinge, helped Nigeria to a deserved 3-0 win over Mozambique and a ticket to the quarter-final of the 27th African Cup of Nations.
Assembly raises panel on Benue properties
By Peter Duru MAKURDI — The Benue State House of Assembly has raised an alarm over large-scale fraud allegedly perpetrated against the government by managers of the government-owned proper-ties spread across the country. Consequently, the House has set up a five-member ad-hoc committee to investigate what it described as a rape of the people by […]
Amodu pockets N9m, Eagles N6m each
NIGERIANS heaved a big sigh of relief yesterday when the Eagles breathed life into their game and soared into the last eight of the Orange African Cup of Nations in style. With an emphatic 3-0 pounding of Mozambique, the Eagles, vilified for their lack-lustre performance in their previousgames, re-doubled their efforts and put a commanding show that got Nigerians talking about their chances.
Ex-militants accuse presidential panel, banks of sabotage
Ex-militants in the Niger Delta have accused the Federal Government Presidential Amnesty Imple-mentation Panel of conni-ving with some banks (names withheld) to derail the amnesty programme.
