Sources in the Presidential Villa said Moro and Parradang, as at press time, were with the Chief of Staff to President Goodluck Jonathan, retired General Jones Arogbofa
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The statement particularly noted that neither Metuh nor anyone currently in position of authority in the PDP today was there when the PDP was being formed
The official said that hijacking was no longer a theory
Sources told our reporter that he decided to resign following alleged report that no fewer than 19 members of the 29-member House have signed an impeachment notice against him, pending the resumption of sitting on Tuesday, which is the House’s next sitting
Meanwhile, Nigerian international, Victor Moses, is still bench-ridden as he watched from the sidelines as his teammates taught the Red Devils football lesson before their home fans at Old Trafford
As at the time of filing this report, the bodies of some of the participants who lost their lives have been identified by their families at the National Hospital in Abuja
It is now my sincere hope that, having painstakingly provided detailed explanations, backed by verifiable documents, His Excellency, Mr President will find the response satisfactory, and in line with his adherence to fairness and justice, revisit and redress the issue of my suspension
The examination in Abuja, which started at 4pm, some candidates said, was characterised by a lot of irregularities
The Katsina State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Abdullahi Garba, gave the figures at the end of his sympathy visit to the affected communities on Saturday in Katsina
Giving an update on the failed attempt by the insurgents to free their colleagues from Giwa Barracks in Maiduguri, Borno State on Friday, Olukolade said the troops conducting cordon and search for remnants of the daring terrorists had an encounter with some of the surviving terrorists in the general area of Kayamla and Alu Dam on the outskirts of Maiduguri on Saturday morning
Sources told The Eagle Online that the remnants of the insurgents, flushed out of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, after a failed attempt to free their arrested members from Giwa Barracks, had started regrouping when information reached the Joint Task Force
This was made up of 99 passengers and five crew members
However, the 10-year old Hauwa’u Awalu, who was hit by a stray bullet during the encounter, died later in the hospital while receiving treatment
That new information about the plane’s flight time has quickly transformed the multi-nation search. Based on satellite data, Najib said, the plane could have traveled along one of two corridors: from Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan border to northern Thailand, or from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean
The Governor of Benue State in the geopolitical Central Zone of Nigeria, Gabriel Suswam, nearly lost his life in the hands of these Fulani marauders, who have been on the rampage in the state these many months, if not years. It is the same story in Taraba and Plateau States. Several other states had had their share of the extreme lawlessness of the Fulani herdsmen
Laboratory testing confirmed that the woman from Texas had a virus “virtually identical” to that of her female partner, who was diagnosed previously with HIV
This was contained in a statement issued by Major General Chris Olukolade, the Director of Defence Information, in Abuja
An air traffic controller told the pilot: “We have to hand you over to Ho Chi Minh City,” a Malaysian Civil Air Department representative said, referring to air traffic control in Vietnam.
Boko Haram members had in the early hours of Friday launched a massive attack on Giwa Barracks and the University of Maiduguri, both in Borno State
The Eagle Online learnt that the attackers entered the town through Bama Road from where they attacked Giwa Barracks.