Akunyili commences treatment in India. Thanks Nigerians for prayers.

 

Former Minister Minister of Information and Communications, Prof. Dora Akunyili has been flown to India for treatment. The nation reports.

This was made known through a statement released by her media adviser, Mr. Isaac Umunna, Wednesday evening.

According to the statement, the erstwhile National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) boss is to be treated for an undisclosed ailment upon the advice of doctors treating her in Abuja.It read further that “she expressed

Jonathan overwhelmed by Boko Haram – Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday said President Goodluck Jonathan is overwhelmed by the Boko Haram insurgency.The nation reports.

The former president, who spoke in Nairobi, Kenya, said he took it upon himself in 2011 to go on a fact finding mission when the insurgency became uncontrollable to see how to mediate.

Extremist video shows abducted girls praying

LAGOS: A new video from Nigeria’s Boko Haram terrorist network purports to show dozens of abducted schoolgirls, covered in jihab and praying in Arabic.
It is the first public sight of the girls since more than 300 were kidnapped from a northeastern school the night of April 14 — exactly four weeks ago. nst Reports 

Nigeria: Nigerian, Chinese firms partner to set up N10b plant in Nigeria

A global conglomerate, Kewalram Chanrai Group, is to set up a 10 billion naira (US$62 million) automotive assembly plant to produce the Foton range of vehicles in Nigeria, the local media reported Monday.



The report quoted the Executive Director of the Group, Mr. Raju Sawlani, as saying it had already

Nigeria's Boko Haram offers to swap kidnapped girls for prisoners. Government Considering Options.

The leader of the Nigerian Islamist rebel group Boko Haram has said he will release more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by his fighters last month in exchange for prisoners, according to a video seen by Agence France-Presse on Monday.Reuters reports.

 Around 100 girls wearing full veils and praying are shown in an

Charter Of Equity As Political Hurricane In South East

From Nsukka to Ngwa, Afikpo to Owerri and indeed all the capitals of South Eastern states, there is only one song, which lyrics and melody have put Ndigbo in an upbeat mood. Everybody is dancing to it because it is sweeter than any hit by FLAVOUR. It stirs at the heart and conscience of the Igboman and what he represents. It speaks truth. It speaks justice and equity. It believes that power should shift to the area which has not tasted it since the creation of the various states or most recently since the inception of the current democratic dispensation in 1999.

Teenager rapes and kills landlord’s 4-year-old daughter in Imo State

Franklin Njoku, a Senior School Certificate Examination candidate has been arrested for raping and killing the four year of daughter of his landlord, Gloria Eze, Tribune reports.



18 year old Franklin from Ohekelem in Ngorokpala LGA of Imo state was posted by WAEC to sit for his exams in Aboh Mbaise Secondary School at Uvuru village, and because of the distance of Uvuru from their village, his parents got him a one room apartment where he met

Monica Lewinsky breaks silence on Clinton affair

WASHINGTON: Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky broke her silence Tuesday about her illicit 1990s affair with former president Bill Clinton, saying she wants to reclaim the narrative of events that brought her global humiliation.

Lewinsky, now 40, was in her early twenties when she became the infamous beret-wearing muse who engaged in sexual relations with the president and then endured a colossal backlash that nearly drove her to suicide.

After years of being turned away by potential employers, ridiculed online, and confronted by

Chibok Schoolgirls: Imo Govt Puts Off Carnival Roadshow, Articles | THISDAY LIVE

Following the unknown fate of the more than 200 female students  abducted by the suspected Boko Haram insurgents in Chibok, Borno State, and the general out-cry the ugly development has generated throughout the world, the Imo State government held an emergency Expanded Executive Council meeting Thursday and resolved to postpone the state planned Carnival in honour of the innocent girls.


 Government also decided that instead of the Carnival road March programmed for this weekend, the council decided that the first Lady, Her Excellency, Nneoma Nkechi Okorocha would lead a road march that would involve female students and all mothers who are teachers in the state school system.




Chibok Schoolgirls: Imo Govt Puts Off Carnival Roadshow.