Jos killings: Jang accuses army of complicity
Plateau State Governor, Mr. Jonah Jang, on Monday alleged that the army was guilty of complicity in the recent attack on three Jos villages which led to the death of about 500 people, mostly women and children.
The governor, a retired military officer, told journalists at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, that he got wind of the [...]
Nigeria: More than 200 dead in religious violence
JOS, Nigeria – Rioters armed with machetes slaughtered more than 200 people overnight Sunday as religious violence flared anew between Christians and Muslims in central Nigeria, witnesses said. Hundreds of people fled their homes, fearing reprisal attacks.
The bodies of the dead — including many women and children — lined dusty streets in three mostly Christian [...]
EFCC places ministers under 24-hr surveillance
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has placed all serving ministers on a 24-hour surveillance ahead of the investigation being conducted by the Presidential Projects Monitoring Committee into the various projects embarked upon and executed in the last two years.
An impeccable source at the commission revealed at the week-end that the anti-graft agency had [...]
Nigeria orders probe into ‘brutal bus robbery’
Nigeria’s Senate has ordered an investigation into reports that the police failed to attend the scene of a brutal robbery, which left many dead.
Photographs of corpses littering the Lagos-Benin highway last week have been circulating on the internet and have been published by a local newspaper.
The victims were reportedly made to lie down in the [...]
Yar’Adua: We’ll never contemplate coup or carry out security breach – Army
Chief of Army staff, Lt. General Abdurahman Bello Dambazau said, yesterday, that the Nigerian Army under his leadership would never contemplate any coup plot or security breach in the country as it is absolutely unnecessary . He disowned a statement credited to AC that he, Chief of Army Staff, is [...]
Yar’Adua recognises Jonathan as Acting President
After referring to him as “Vice-President” on Wednesday, President Umaru Yar’Adua on Thursday recognised Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as the country’s Acting President and Commander-in-Chief.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi, said Jonathan would continue to discharge the affairs of the government as the Acting President until Yar’Adua had fully [...]
S/South Threatens To Break Away, Alleges Threat To Jonathan
The people of South-South region yesterday took strong exception to the sidelining of Acting President Goodluck Jonathan in running the affairs of the country and threatened to break away before issues which bind the country together are subverted by a cabal.
Specifically, the South –South Elders and Leaders Forum at the end of an emergency meeting [...]
Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua returns home
Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua has returned home after three months’ treatment in Saudi Arabia, officials say, but his condition is unknown.
A plane from Jeddah landed at Abuja airport in the early hours, where an ambulance was waiting on the tarmac.
Earlier this month, Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan became acting leader as fears mounted of a power vacuum.
Mr [...]
Doctors block access to Yar’Adua – Ambassador
NIGERIA’S Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Alhaji Abdullah Aminchi said, yesterday, that it was doctors attending to ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua who had denied Nigerians access to their President in his Jeddah hospital and not Saudi authorities. He said he visited the President last Saturday and that “he is really feeling better now.”
Meanwhile, the Saudi authorities [...]
You have world support, Bush tells Jonathan
Nigeria’s Acting President, Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday evening in Abuja secured the support of the former President of the United States, George Bush who assured him of the world’s support in making his job a success. Mr. Bush and his entourage were in Nigeria for the ThisDay Nigeria at 50 awards.
Mr Bush who visited Mr Jonathan [...]
