Following the drop in the price of crude oil in the global market, the Federal Government has announced a reduction in the price of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, commonly called petrol in Nigeria. The product has been sold for N97 since 2012 when President Goodluck Jonathan announced the removal of subsidy from petrol. The announcement…
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Jonathan, Obasanjo In Another Secret Meeting
According to reports reaching us, President Goodluck Jonathan is holding a closed-door meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo. The meeting is currently holding at the ex-President’s residence in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, we learnt. This is one of such meetings Jonathan has held with the elder statesman in recent times. It would also be…
Henry Okah Wanted To Assassinate Me—Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan has alleged that leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, Henry Okah, had planned to kill him in the October 1, 2010 bombing at the Eagle Square in Abuja. Jonathan made this allegation on Thursday at the flag-off of his re-election campaign held in Lagos at the…
There Will Be War If Jonathan Is Assassinated—Group Warns
A group, New Foundation of National Understanding, NFNM, has called upon President Goodluck Jonathan to shift the 2015 Presidential elections and prepare for war against terrorism in the country. The group alleged that there is a plot by some disgruntled politician and religious extremists of northern extraction to extend the reign of terror of Boko…
Buhari’s Emergence: A Quit Notice To Jonathan, PDP—Rivers APC
By Nwaorgu Faustinus The emergence of General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.) as the presidential flag-bearer of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the 2015 general elections has been described as an unmistakable quit notice to President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Congratulating Buhari, who picked the APC ticket on Thursday at the APC…
Igbo Presidency: Ohanaeze Must Negotiate With Jonathan Now, By Obinna Akukwe
President Jonathan has come again for Igbo votes ahead of the emergence of successful All Progressive Congress (APC) primaries which picked General Muhammadu Buhari as flagbearer. With the emergence of Buhari as APC candidate, it is obvious that it is no more tea a party for the PDP, and one of the places they are…
Ex-Foreign Minister, Gbenga Ashiru Dies In South Africa
A former Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign, Gbenga Ashiru, has died. The late diplomat gave up the ghost in a South African hospital on Saturday. Ashiru, an indigene of Ogun State, was instrumental in the settling of the dispute between Nigeria and South Africa when over 100 Nigerians were deported from the former apartheid country for…
We'll Talk To Real Boko Haram If Elected–APC
The Boko Haram scourge has become a cause of worry for the Nigerian government and its people. Several thousands of people have been killed since the group started its full onslaught in the north eastern region of Nigeria in 2009. Government, private and religious facilities have been destroyed by the deadly terrorist group for over…
Yobe Blast: Jonathan Talks Tough
President Goodluck Jonathan has vehemently condemned the killing of some students of a Yobe secondary school in a Monday morning bomb blast that claimed about 47 lives. Jonathan, in a statement signed by his spokesman, Reuben Abati, on Monday, said the Federal Government will ensure those behind the crime are brought to justice. The President…
Sack NSA, Defence Minister Now—CAN Tells Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan has been asked to remove the National Security Adviser, NSA, Colonel Sambo Dasuki; and the Minister of Defence, General Aliyu Gusau. This call was made by the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN. The Christian body in Nigeria said this following the recent attacks in Adamawa and Gombe State, where some people lost…