Bizarre: N4.3b spent to prosecute Ibori – Senate
It was shocking and earth-shaking in the Nigerian Senate, yesterday, when it was revealed that the Jonathan government spent a whooping 14 million Pounds (N4.3 billion) to secure the conviction of Chief James Ibori, former governor of Delta State.
Cameron defends MI5 after media unmask ‘Jihadi John’
Prime Minister David Cameron defended Britain’s secret services and vowed to defeat jihadists Friday after media reports named Islamic State executioner “Jihadi John” as London graduate Mohammed Emwazi.
Two in court for hacking Gov Kwankwaso’s phone
KANO – Two suspected fraudster, Kabiru Ali, and Idris Umar have been arraigned before a Kano High court for allegedly duping the Accountant General of the state, Danjuma Mahamud pretending to be Kano state Governor, Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso. The duo were alleged to have made an illegal act by pretending to be the governor of […]
Police rescue four-year-old girl from kidnappers
PORT HARCOURT – The Rivers State Police Command Friday rescued a four-year-old-girl from the hands of her abductors barely 30 minutes after her abduction.
APC says Jonathan’s govt wasted public funds in hiring Chatham House protesters
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned, in the strongest possible terms, the needless resort to sheer hysteria by the PDP and the Jonathan Administration over the globally-acclaimed appearance of the APC’s Presidential Candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, at the Chatham House in London on Thursday. In a statement issued in London on Friday by its […]
On qualification for national leadership
NIGERIA’S 2015 Presidential election campaigns are getting murkier and murkier by the day and indeed disappointingly personal and vain. There is too much mudslinging and little or no enlightenment. Currently, loud and mischievous questions are being raised by the ruling party and its agents about Buhari’s qualification to lead the country. If they are not saying that he is too old for the job, they are telling us that Buhari cannot possibly be healthy enough for the task.
