Thursday, 2 October 2014




President Goodluck Jonathan (fourth left), First Lady Patience (fifth left) with (from left)  Vice President Namadi Sambo, Former Head of Interim Government Chief Ernest Shonekan, Former Head of State Gen. Yakubu Gowon,  Senate President David Mark, Deputy Speaker House Representatives Emeka Ihedioha, Minister of  Defence General Aliyu Gusau and Chief of Naval Staff; Vice Admiral Usman  Jibrin clapping after the cutting of Nigeria’s 54th Independence Anniversary cake at the Forecourt of the Presidential Villa in Abuja...yesterday.   PHOTO AKIN OLADOKUN
President Goodluck Jonathan remained defiant yesterday,
saying terrorists will fail. He vowed to check their onslaught. Besides, he urged them to lay down their arms and embrace peace. Dr. Jonathan, in a 20-minute Independence Day broadcast aired on television and radio networks,   said Nigeria was in a sober mood due to the activities of terrorists. But he noted that his ...
 Ekiti PDP accuses chief judge of bias
APC-Vs-PDP
EKITI State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused Chief Judge Justice Ayodeji Daramola, of siding with the All Progressives Congress (APC). Lawyers representing the APC, have called for the relocation of the Election Petition Tribunal outside Ado-Ekiti, because of insecurity. Former Minister of Justice Chief Akinlolu Olujimi (SAN), in a letter to the President of the Court of Appeal Justice ...

Nigeria is praised for combating Ebola as America battles outbreak
The  Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas  where the patient is being isolated.
As Nigeria prepares to be declared Ebola free by the World Health Organisation (WHO), America yesterday recorded its first case in Texas. The U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention told the AFP that since there have been no new cases since August 31, Nigeria should be able to announce a formal end to its outbreak on October 12. The ...


Okorocha pardons 94-year-old, 15 other convicts

Okorocha
Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has pardoned 16 convicts, including a 94-year-old man, Canice Egbunanne, on the nation’s 54th Independence anniversary. It was the first time in 10 years the state’s convicts got such amnesty under a governor’s prerogative of mercy. The governor’s action followed the recommendations of the Advisory Council on the Prerogative of Mercy, under the chairmanship of ...


Buhari: Nigerians ’ll vote PDP out

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and General Muhammadu Buhari at the 50th birthday lecture in honour of former Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Timipre Sylva at Sheraton Hotel in Abuja on Thursday.
For the second time in two days, former Head of State Gen. Muhammadu Buhari yesterday slammed what he termed the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP’s) misrule and assured all that Nigerians will next year vote out the ruling party. Gen. Buhari, who on Tuesday in Abuja announced that he would seek the ticket of his All Progressives Congress (APC) party to ...


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