President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered security services in the country to fashion out and execute more intelligence measures to counter terrorism measures in conjunction with security operatives of other countries to fight terrorists in the country. ...
In what could be regarded as a black Friday, a suspected suicide bomber attacked the United Nations (UN) House in Abuja, leaving a one-year-old and 39 others dead with over 200 injured, just as workers and visitors to the building were trapped there. B...
The outgoing Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu yesterday inaugurated 30 new Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN) amidst tight security in spite of the directive of the Nigerian Bar Association, directing its members and the new S...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday described the bombing of the UN House, Abuja as a bestial act that should be condemned by all and sundry Comrade Owei Lakemfa, the Acting General Secretary of the congress said in Abuja that the congress is s...
Vice President Namadi Sambo yesterday spurned reports in the media that his residence was engulfed by fire. A statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the Vice President, Umar Sani noted that Sambo was hale and hearty ...
Irked by the suicide bombing that occurred yesterday at the United Nations buildings in Abuja, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) yesterday condemned the bombings saying that, government and all security agencies must rise to the occasion, as it also d...
Former Head of state General Abdulsalami Abubakar has attributed the upsurge in protest against governments of Asia and Africa to long tolerance of the people in bondage even as he said the crisis in Libya would not have escalated to its present level ...
The face-off between the National Judicial Commission (NJC) and the President of the Court of Appeal (PCA), Justice Isa Salami, yesterday took a turn for the worse, as Justice Salami carried out his official responsibility. To firm up his position, the...
A Lagos-based group, The Common Man’s Movement of Nigeria has described as irresponsible the suspension of the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Salami by the National Judicial Council. The President of the group, Comrade Adeshina Adebayo...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday co-opted leading business mogul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, and four others into the economic management team.The team which held its inaugural meeting at the Presidential Villa, has the following as the other new membe...
All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) has slammed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over deregistration of seven political parties in the country.According to a statement signed by the national chairman of the ANPP, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, sta...
The Borno State Police Command said it has arrested a man suspected to be supplying chemicals to the Islamist sect popularly known as the Boko Haram.The state’s commissioner of Police, Mr Simeon Midenda, made the announcement at a news conference...
The former Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida has been described as the biggest beneficiary of the loyalty of the late former Military Vice President, Admiral Augustus Aikhomu. Aikhomu, who served under IBB between 1986 and 1993, died ...
The special adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on media and publicity, Dr Reuben Abati, has said that the presidency cannot call for an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha and a bus...
Damning reports emerged yesterday at the Senate Ad-hoc Committee investigating the activities of the Bureau for Private Enterprises (BPE), as a World Bank report between 1999-2003 indicted a former Director-General of BPE, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, for th...