Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja before which embattled Senator Aliyu Mohammed Ndume is standing trial on an alleged sponsorship of the dreaded Islamic fundamental sect, Boko Haram, on Thursday threatened to strike out the charge against the senator over what it termed prosecution delays which had stalled the trial. [...]
To bail out Igbos stranded in the North, the leader of Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike has sent 20 luxury buses to convey his kinsmen to the East at no cost. The gesture was announced in an advertorial in a national daily today. Igbos and other [...]
Soccer fans rushed the field after the home team won an unexpected victory over Egypt’s top squad Wednesday, setting off clashes and a stampede that left at least 73 people dead and 1,000 injured in Port Said, a Mediterranean port city, officials said. Associated Press, AP reports that it was the worst incident of soccer [...]
Thousands of mourners in Nigeria are attending the burial service for people killed at a church on Christmas Day. The BBC’s Chris Ewokor at St Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla near the capital, Abuja, says the service sheets list the names of 43 victims. The militant Islamist group Boko Haram said it carried out a [...]
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Former governor of Kano state, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau this morning at his Bompai residence, Kano, northwest Nigeria said that he was never arrested by the State Security Services, SSS, insisting that his eight-year administration did not pay a dime to sponsor the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram. Shekarau who said he was embarrassed [...]
Leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Chief Ralph Uwazruike has ordered Igbos in the North to get out and return to their home states in the East following incessant attacks by the Boko Haram Islamic sect in the region. Uwazuruike made the announcement after a meeting at [...]
An Abuja High Court presided over by Justice Suleiman Belgore on Tuesday absolved the embattled former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole and his erstwhile Deputy, Bayero Nafada, of any crime by obtaining N38 billion loan from UBA for the payment of an enhanced package and running cost for members of the House [...]
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