POLITICS

Nigeria: Confab, tit bits from the sidelines  

KUNLE ODEREMI reports a few events that have attended the confab organised by the Federal Government to discuss nagging national questions, which got under way on Monday.  

NEWS FEATURE

 How Nigerian undergraduate was killed in Ghana over money
Ajayi Oluwapelumi in Ghana

February 20 was no doubt one of the saddest days for the family of Mr Fred Awogbo. Their son, 18-year-old Godwin Awogbo, a 300 level student of University of Cape Coast in Central region, Ghana, studying Social Science was brutally killed. His body had been found with some his internal organs gorged out, with his hands and legs tied. 

POLICY & POLITICS

Nigeria: President inaugural speech at National Conference 
 

President Jonathan

PROTOCOLS

1. I AM delighted to welcome you all to the inauguration of this historic National Conference which promises to be another significant landmark in our efforts to strengthen national unity and consolidate democratic governance in our beloved country.

INTERVIEW

'Ending corruption in Nigeria' - finance minister speaks with CNN

Minister for Finance and Coordinator of the Economy Ngozi Okonjo Iweala was a guest on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS programme on Sunday where she acknowledged that there was corruption in Nigeria but said that the fight against corruption must involve every Nigerian...

SPORTS

Football:Survey highlights racism problem in England

Paul Mortimer

More than half of all professional footballers in England have either witnessed or been subjected to racist abuse in stadiums, according to the results of a survey.

NEWS

Nigeria: National Conference starts in Abuja

 

The ever controversial national conference to discuss Nigeria's future is finally opening in the capital city Abuja with some 500 delegates from across the country.

NEWS

President summons Interior Minister, Immigration service CG over recruitment deaths

 By Augustine Ehikioya, Abuja

 

Security officials helps an applicant

President Goodluck Jonathan Monday summoned the Minister of Interior, Abba Moro and the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), David Parradang to give explanation why the over 19 job seekers had to die during NIS recruitment exercise at the weekend.

NEWS

Interior Minister asked to be sacked over tragic recruitment exercise

Nigeria's interior minister has been told to resign or be sacked as a result of tragic recruitment exercise of the Nigeria Immigration Service which allegedly claimed twenty applicants lives

VIDEO REPORT

The March 15th, 2014 Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) employment screening exercise throughout the country resulted in stampeded

NEWS INTERNATIONAL

Nigerian teenager stabbed, burnt to death in Russia
By JOB OSAZUWA

Tears flowed  uncontrollably when the Samson family received the news that their  17-year-old daughter, Forester Samson was stabbed to death in far away Moscow, the capital  of Russia.
Sunday Sun gathered that she was murdered  by yet-to-be-identified Russian gangsters. According to a family source, the perpetrators went further to lock her body in a room and set it ablaze. Though, the police took her to the  hospital, it was rather futile.

OPINION

2015: Kalu, Jonathan, Abia people and the reassurance

 By Odimegwu Onwumere

There should not be simplistic arguments that Abia people from all walks of life recently, reassured their support for former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, at his Igbere home town.