The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described the declaration of a state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States by President Goodluck Jonathan as lacking in original thinking, and therefore asked the National Assembly to reject it. In a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, [...]
Full text of PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, GCFR DECLARATION OF A STATE OF EMERGENCY IN BORNO, YOBE AND ADAMAWA STATES IN ORDER TO RESTORE PUBLIC ORDER, PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY IN THE AFFECTED STATES OF THE FEDERATION IN A SIMULCAST ON 14 MAY 2013 Dear compatriots, 1. It has become necessary for me to address [...]
By Joe Igbokwe The other day I watched Al Jazeera Television where Omoyele Sowore, of Sahara Reporters, our own Professor Wole Soyinka and Dr Doyin Okupe, Senior Special Assistant on Media to President Goodluck Jonathan spoke on Nigeria’s political crisis and Boko Haram insurgence. The programme was anchored by Femi Oke of Al Jazeera Network [...]
Human rights activist, Comrade Bamidele Aturu says President Goodluck Jonathan has lost control of the nation as high wave of insecurity has overwhelmed the nation. He said the nation is drifting into a stateless country without a leader to properly direct its affairs. Aturu in a statement lamented that the events of the last one [...]
Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and his Edo State counterpart, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole on Sunday shunned the South-South/South-East Governors’ meeting held in Asaba, the Delta State capital. During the summit the governors drummed up support for President Goodluck Jonathan’s second term ambition. Although Amaechi, the Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, was represented by his [...]
The purported head of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has claimed two recent deadly attacks in the northeast in a video obtained by AFP Monday, which also depicts women and children apparently being held hostage. The video features Abubakar Shekau, declared a global terrorist by the United States, seated on a rug with a kalashnikov [...]
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday held emergency talks with his security chiefs on a recent spate of deadly violence in the country which has left some 350 dead in less than a month, in mostly religious clashes. “It is an emergency security meeting at the instance of Mr President… because of insecurity and loss [...]
