Day: February 25, 2014

Suspected terrorists believed to be members of the Boko Haram group, on Tuesday, killed about 45 persons in Yobe State. The attack came barely 48 hours after the convoy of Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, was attacked by some insurgents near Maiduguri. The invaders stormed Federal Government Girls College in Buni Yadi, the headquarters of…

Ondo Loses Speaker, Samuel Adesina

Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Samuel Adesina, has passed on. Adesina died on Tuesday after a protracted illness. A statement released on Tuesday by the state government revealed that the deceased died after battling with cancer of the urinary bladder. “The untimely death of the Speaker occurred in the early hours of…

Boko Haram Attacks Borno Gov Convoy

Gunmen believed to be members of the dreaded Boko Haram group, on Sunday evening, fired gun shots at the convoy of the Governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima. This attack came barely a week after Shettima claimed that members of Boko Haram were better equipped than the Nigerian Army. The Presidency later slammed the governor…

President Goodluck Jonathan has explained that he did not sack the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, from office as some may have been thinking, but only asked him to step aside to allow investigation into allegations of financial recklessness by the Financial Reporting Council’s report. President Jonathan also noted that…