US surveillance flights spot abducted Chibok girls
Recent U.S. surveillance flights over northeastern Nigeria showed what appeared to be large groups of girls held together in remote locations, raising hopes among domestic and foreign officials that they are among the group that Boko Haram abducted from a boarding school in April, U.S. and Nigerian officials said.
Kwankwaso uninformed, says Onuesoke
COUNTRY Director of Network for Good Governance, N4GG, Mr. Sunny Onuesoke, yesterday, described Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State as a religious fanatic, who is not well informed for accusing President Goodluck Jonathan of running an ethnic and religious-based government.
S’South governors, leaders endorse Jonathan for 2015
The South-South governors and leaders of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2015 presidential election.
Oshodi-Apapa Expressway: How culpable are tank farms?
WHEN Yemi woke up Thursday morning and remembered that he had an appointment at 12 noon with his Shipping company in Apapa, he became apprehensive. Two weeks earlier, he had kept a similar appointment at Apapa and the harrowing experience of that trip to the Port town, is better forgotten than re-lived. He thought of going through Ijora but quickly jettisoned the idea because “if you are trapped in the traffic in that axis, you may stay there throughout that day”
2015: Group plans rally for Jonathan in Awka
ANOTHER pressure group, Oriental Peoples Movement, OPM, has joined the army of groups campaigning for President Goodluck Jonathan’s 2015 presidential election with a rally planned for August 15, 2014, in Awka.
Sheathe your swords, Bayelsa monarchs appeal to Boko Haram
Traditional rulers in Bayelsa State have called on members of the Boko Haram sect to sheathe their swords and embrace amnesty like the former militants of the Niger Delta region did.
