Though it was not a Sunday, Dr Alex Ekwueme, former Vice President, who had a scheduled interview appointment, took The Sun team to his chapel, a sanctuary in the upper chamber of the right wing of his house. He had led the way from his living room to climb the staircase to the chapel, explaining that it…
Fellow Nigerians, barely one month and some days to the start of our 2015 general elections, things are already falling apart. There was never a doubt in my mind that politicians would naturally heat up the polity to a boiling point before God rescues us as always from some wondrously amazing people. The two leading…
Yanaye Grema hid from Islamist fighters as they ransacked his home town of Baga in northeast Nigeria. Soldiers walking in the street in the town of Baga, Nigeria in 2013. Photograph: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images Yanaye Grema hid for three days between a wall and his neighbours’ house, as Boko Haram fighters ransacked his home…
A suicide bomb blast at a poultry market in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, Saturday, has killed at least 20 people and injured 18 others, witnesses have said. Members of the local vigilante, known as the Civilian JTF, told PREMIUM TIMES they saw 20 bodies after the attack. The bodies were counted as the Civilian…
It is a problem President Jonathan has. His choice of aides. If there was any singular undoing of Jonathan’s Presidency it is undoubtedly not his cluelessness. but his inability to call his aides to order. Doyin may just may be right that the figures are inaccurate, but should it come via a tweet? Should the word…
