Danladi Baba, a driver, who killed Festus Iyayi, former national president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), in a road crash has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment without an option of fine. Iyayi, a winner of the Commonwealth prize for literature, was killed in 2013. In a statement on Friday, Bisi Kazeem,
President Muhammadu Buhari has dismissed the report of Transparency International (TI) which indicated that corruption is worse in the country under the present administration, with the president saying that it may just be a political distraction engineered by TI’s patrons. This, he said, followed the strong views already expressed by some patrons of the TI
Governor Ibrahim Gaidam has said that with recent developments, from Dapchi, certainly, 84 girls have been missing from the Government Girls Science Technical College GGSTC since the Monday abduction saga. He also blamed the security personnel helping in the management of the insurgency in the state for escalating the insurgency in the state by applying
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday described reported abduction of girls from the Government Girls Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State as a national disaster, assuring the families of students , that no effort will be spared to bring succour to them. A statement issued by Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the president on media and
The national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, currently on a presidential assignment to resolve crisis within the party at various levels, has accused the national chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, of undermining him. Tinubu was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari to lead the consultation, reconciliation and confidence-building efforts in the APC.
National Chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, on Thursday, reiterated their stand that the INEC is doing everything possible to rig the 2019 general elections in favour of the ruling APC. Secondus also said the PDP was in full support of the National Assembly’s position on elections sequence, saying there was nothing wrong in
The General Hospital in Aba which has remained moribund since 2010 has been re-opened by Governor Okezie Ikpeazu. Speaking at the event yesterday, the governor described the hospital as the health soul of Aba. “The hospital was firm, secure and renowned for medical practice but a few years ago the story changed. Today is yet
The Ambassador of Northern Ireland, Sean Hoy, yesterday said Nigeria can learn from the experiences of his country in addressing the myriad of crises facing her. Hoy made this known at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria while speaking as a keynote address presenter in a lecture tagged ‘Road to Peace: Lessons from the Northern
Some aggrieved residents of Dapchi, headquarters of Busari local government area of Yobe state, attacked Ibrahim Gaidam, governor of the state, on Thursday. They not only booed the number one citizen of the state but threw stones and dangerous objects at his convoy, resulting in the destruction of some vehicles. Gaidam had gone to the
THE Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of presiding over the “worst form of corruption” in Nigeria’s history. Fayose said this some hours after the picture of him and Buhari shaking hands at the council of state meeting went viral. Some might have interpreted the encounter with the president