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For the record: How ex-gov Orji, wife, son squandered N474bn in Abia (2)
Continued from yesterday Being continuation of a petition by the Save Abia Initiative for Change, a voluntary association of concerned citizen, to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)...
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Tension, as Tompolo, ex-MEND commanders meet in Bayelsa
From Femi Folaranmi, Yenagoa Tension is mounting in the Niger Delta region following the call for a meeting of all former leaders and commanders of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta...
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Rivers tribunal: N/Assembly caucus accuses DSS of intimidating judicial, INEC...
From Iheanacho Nwosu, Abuja Rivers State caucus in the National Assembly yesterday alleged plots to use security operatives to influence the outcome of the 2015 election petitions currently before the...
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Boko Haram plots to bomb homes of VIPs – Osinbajo
•INEC urges reduction in cost of governance From Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) has disclosed that security reports have revealed how Boko Haram plans to use...
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Back from the dead: The Sun photo journalist recounts ordeal in pipeline...
BY CHIOMA IGBOKWE When The Sun photo journalist, Omoniyi Ayedun was called on Thursday morning that he should proceed to Arepo, along Lagos-Ibadan expressway to cover the raging fire that engulfed...
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Boko Haram: Buhari didn’t indict US – Presidency
FROM JULIANA TAIWO-OBALONYE, ABUJA Presidency has denied that President Muhammadu Buhari indicted the United States Government, accusing it of using the Leahy Law to aid and abet Nigerian terror sect,...
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Probe: You’re being selective, Fayose tells Buhari
BY WOLE BALOGUN, ADO EKITI Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has said announcements in the media by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) Federal Government that...
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Arepo: A community under the siege of pipeline vandals
■ Criminals now call the shots in this our area-Residents BY TUNDE THOMAS For three days running now, tension has been running high at Arepo, a sleepy community located along Lagos-Ibadan expressway....
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Count us out of Tompolo’s meeting – MEND
FROM FEMI FOLARANMI, YENAGOA The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has distanced itself from the meeting of former leaders and ex-commanders of the militant organisation called...
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NASS crisis: Gemade, Lawan, 5 others drag Saraki, Ekweremadu to court
■ Their effort, a nullity – Senate FROM ADE ALADE, ABUJA Barely four days to the resumption of legislative duties by the Senate, the crisis rocking the National Assembly deepened on Friday when seven...
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Brutalised woman’s baby dies in incubator
■ Family demands trial of 3 cops who beat 8-month pregnant housewife into coma BY CHIOMA IGBOKWE AND CHIZOBA IKENWA “Take me to my son, I want to see him”, Chika Elekawachi pleaded with family members...
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Corruption test: Fear grips ministerial hopefuls
■ Buhari’s integrity screening scares APC leaders, job hunters FROM ADE ALADE, ABUJA The insistence by President Muhammadu Buhari to have ministerial nominees and other top appointees of his...
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INCREDIBLE! Dead woman “withdraws” N.5m from bank
■Only child raises alarm BY HENRY UMAHI (KINGHENRYSUN@YAHOO. COM) For those who knew Mrs Cordelia Iwegbuna Idowu Okocha, it is no news that she died of breast cancer, at the age of 50 on August 7,...
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Extend your probe to past leaders, Balarabe Musa tells Buhari
FROM NOAH EBIJE, KADUNA Former governor of the old Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, has frowned at the move by President Muhammadu Buhari to probe only the administration of the immediate past...
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I won’t die before 100 –Obasanjo
BY CHARLES ADEGBITE Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday said he will be alive in another 25years to celebrate 50th coronation anniversary with the Akarigbo of Remo kingdom, His Imperial...
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MYSTERY MURDER: Heartbreaking story of how Ph.D student was abducted, killed...
■Prime suspect at large, declared wanted by police BY PATIENCE EGWUWA Exactly one year ago, 34-year old Enero Ukonga was abducted from his Opebi home in Lagos by his father’s client. His whereabouts...
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Like Minds Senators hindering anti-corruption war –Group
In the wake of the invitation of Mrs. Toyin Saraki, wife of the Senate President, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for questioning, a group, Society for Exemplary Leadership and...
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Tinubu behind Saraki’s wife’s ordeal –Waku
A frontline leader of the pro- North Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Joseph Waku has pointedly accused a national leader of the APC,...
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T.A Orji, son plan to attack The Sun offices
The Sun publishing Limited has raised the alarm over an alleged plan by former governor of Abia State, Chief T.A. Orji and his son, Chinedu to instigate violent attacks on offices of the company in...
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APC loses out
■ Loyalists ditch Gbajabiamila, back Dogara ■ Deputy speaker rebuffs party’s plea to resign FROM IHEANACHO NWOSU, ABUJA A new twist emerged yesterday on the leadership crisis bedeviling the House of...
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