Story by Nwaorgu Faustinus The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State says it wishes to alert Nigerians to the great danger that lies ahead as a result of the rising tide of corruption under the Goodluck Jonathan administration and the government’s refusal or failure to take concrete measures to reverse the trend. Going by…
Eight persons allegedly involved in the act of piracy were apprehended over the weekend in Enugu with contrivances worth more than N30 million. The suspects were caught with Q-Sats decoders, A-Z skys and some ‘dongles’, which are used to illegally broadcast pay stations on the DSTV platform. The eight alleged pirates were arrested at the…
Deputy National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Nasir El-Rufai, has revealed that the opposition party will take over power from the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, in 2015, when the next general elections holds in Nigeria. El-Rufai, a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, made this known on Saturday in Kaduna…
The Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, has disclosed that the Federal Government has not directed it to refund the N1000 it collected from about 693,000 applicants that entered for the NIS job. Public Relations Officer of the NIS, Emeka Obua, informed Punch that such a directive can only come from the FG to the Minister of…
Members of the dreaded Islamic group called Boko Haram have murdered not less than 17 persons in an attack in Borno, AFP reports. The latest blast occurred on Thursday at a market in Nguro-Soye, Borno State. A local police chief, Lawan Tanko, told the agency on Sunday that the blast affected telecom towers, which caused…