In a bid to restore peaceful coexistence among the Tiv elite, the Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam and the governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Prof. Steven Ugba will engage in a football match. This was revealed yesterday...
Former Governor of Taraba State, Rev Jolly Nyame, has called on the people of the state to continue to pray for Governor Danbaba Suntai who is currently undergoing treatment in a German hospital. It would be recalled that Governor Suntai was involved i...
Prominent Kebbi State elders comprising seasoned administrators, politicians and other prominent citizens have implored Governor Saidu Dakingari to put all machinery in motion to ensure an industrial development of the State. The Chairman of Kebbi Elde...
The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Azubuike Ihejirika, has read the Riot Act to some army officers aggrieved over their retirement benefits to stop fanning embers of ethnic and religious sentiments or face the consequence. Reacting to accusati...
The Comptroller General of Immigration Service, Mrs. Rose Chinyere Uzoma, has denied speculations on recruitment scandal in the service. She also observed that the Minister’s directive cancelling a supposed recruitment exercise and added that the...
The Kwara State government will commence the rehabilitation of Ajasse-Ipo-Offa-Erin-Ile federal road, which links Kwara State to Osun state, in the first quarter of 2013. The state governor, Alh. AbdulFatah Ahmed disclosed this in Offa during the commi...
The Kogi State commissioner of Works and Transport, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdullahi, has attributed poor roads construction across Kogi State to lack of effective supervision by ministry engineers. The commissioner disclosed this recently when he hosted...
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International envoy Lakhdar Brahimi called on Thursday for real change in Syria to end 21 months of conflict.
He said a transitional government must be established with full powers to rule the country until new elections.
Brahimi, speaking in Damascus at the end of a five-day trip to Syria during which he met President Bashar al-Assad, did not spell out what measures were needed but said that only substantial change would meet the demands of ordinary Syrians.
``Certainly it was clear in Geneva, and it's even clearer now that the change which is needed is not cosmetic or superficial,’’ Brahimi said, referring to an international meeting on Syria in Switzerland six months ago.
``I believe the Syrian people need, want and aspire to genuine change and everyone knows what this means,’’ he said.
``A government must be created with full powers. Full powers means this government must have all the powers of the state,’’ Brahimi stressed. ``This government will hold power during the transitional period.’’
Brahimi is due in Moscow on Saturday and said he is also expected to have a third joint meeting with U.S. and Russian officials soon following two rounds of talks earlier this month.
However, he denied what he said were reports of a U.S.-Russian plan to end the conflict in which 44,000 people have been killed.
The veteran diplomat, who took over as Syrian envoy in August from former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, also said he was not yet proposing a ``complete plan’’ to resolve the crisis.
``What is preferred is that we don't present such a plan until we feel that all sides have agreed to it. That way, implementing it is easy.
``If that doesn't happen, the other solution could be to go to the UN Security Council to issue a binding resolution for everyone,’’ he said.
The Indian paramedical student who was gang-raped last week on a New Delhi bus, was flown to Singapore for treatment early on Thursday, a local news report said. Mount Elizabeth Hospital admitted the 23-year-old to its intensive care unit at 9:05 am ``...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela is doing well after being discharged from hospital, although he is still not fully recovered, a government spokesman said on Thursday. ``He is sufficiently well to be home,’’ Mac Maharaj told lo...
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The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon has condemned the armed attack on several towns in the Central African Republic by the coalition of rebel groups “SELEKA”. This is contained in a statement issued on Thursday in New York by Ban’s ...
Joint Task Force (JTF), Operation Pulo Shield, Sector 3 of the 13 Brigade Nigerian Army, on Wednesday destroyed 10,000 drums used for lifting illegal diesel product in Cross River.
Capt. James Joseph, the Public Relations Officer of the 13 Brigade Nigerian Army told newsmen in Calabar, that five people were arrested including a serving Assistant Superintendent of Police.
NAN reports that the drums containing the illegal diesel was destroyed at Nigerian Army burning site at Ikang in Bakassi Local Government Area of the state.
He said that the JTF arrested the illegal `bunkerers' at Mesembe Avenue at Anatigha in Calabar South Local Government Area of Cross River through an intelligent report.
Joseph said that the oil thieves were arrested on Christmas eve at 7 p.m, noting that the area was one of the hideout in Calabar South.
``We got an intelligent reports about this hideout, you can see in their hideaway, there are over 10,000 drums of diesel products and when we came, we raided the place,’’ he said.
He said that Nigerian Army was determined to curb the activities of oil theft in Cross River in particular and Nigeria in general.
NAN reports that the oil thieves dredged carnal in Calabar South to enable their boats convey the illegal diesel through water channel.
``Our soldiers have been combing Calabar South to make sure that illegal bunkering does not make headway in Cross River,’’ Joseph said.
Joseph said that Nigerian Army was working in collaboration with the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), to check the activities of oil thieves in the state.
He advised the perpetrators of the act to desist from the illegal bunkering or the long arm of the law would catch up with them.
The Army spokesperson said that the six people arrested had been handed over to Civil Defence for further investigations.