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FORMER Vice President, Atiku Abubakar yesterday said he was humbled sitting on the front- row at both the state funeral and private burial ceremonies of former South Africa President, Nelson Mandela at his native home at Qunu, near Mthatha in the Eastern Cape Province. According to the former Presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, he was also honoured flying on the same plane with the South Africa President, Jacob Zuma from Pretoria to Mthatha to be part of Mandela’s last journey. A statement from Atiku’s office yesterday read, ” former Vice President Abubakar was on Sunday honored by the South African leadership with front-row seat at both the state funeral and private burial ceremonies of global icon, Madiba Nelson Mandela at the late leader’s native home at Qunu, near Mthatha in the Eastern Cape Province. “Mandela’s body was flown here from Pretoria where he had lain is state for three days for a state funeral attended by 4,000 and a pri...

I READ   with much pain in my bones, heartache and running stomach the interview granted by a second Republic member of House of Representatives and a Russian trained medical doctor Junaid Mohammed, captioned  2015: there’ll be bloodshed, if Jonathan runs, warns  Junaid Mohammed. I have watched and listened with keen interest to see or hear reactions from Nigerians or security operatives condemning this interview but to no avail. It is imperative and instructive for discerning Nigerians to rise up against this treasonable and unwarranted incitation. For a man like Junaid Mohammed to openly and on the pages of  Sunday Sun  Newspaper of December 1st, 2013 on page 61 incite our Northern brothers and sisters to declare war against the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Southerners if Jonathan runs in 2015. It is very unfortunate and irresponsible of a man of his standing as, this act amounts to a crime against the State and a call for a civil war. He als...

The All Progressives Congress has called on the National Assembly to immediately commence the process of impeaching President Goodluck Jonathan for alleged gross misconduct. It  said  in a statement on Sunday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, that Jonathan’s impeachment  would  save Nigeria from imminent collapse. But the Presidency warned the APC and others, who it said were  bent on plunging the nation into political instability,  to be ready for the consequences of treasonable action. The opposition party,  however, said it  made the  call with a high sense of responsibility and   strong belief that the impeachment of the President was a legitimate constitutional option available to the National Assembly not only to protect the nation’s democracy, but  to ensure its  unity. It explained that  it based  the  call for Jonathan’s impeachment on the  dangerous dr...

The Chairman of Illela Local Government, Alhaji Garba Sabon-Gari, says the death toll in the accident at Gidan-Sandaga village, along Sokoto-Illela village, has now risen to 19. Sabon-Gari disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Sokoto on Sunday in a telephone interview. NAN reports that 13 people were earlier reported to have died in the Sunday mid-day accident which involved two articulated vehicles from Fura-Girke and Inwala villages. The two vehicles, with number plate LLA 22 XA and ABJ 801 XE, were going to Illela market when the accident occurred. “Six more persons died some hours ago at the Illela General Hospital,’’ Sabon-Gari said. NAN reports that 12 of those, who lost their lives earlier, died on the spot while one victim died later at the hospital. Thirty-two persons, who were injured in the accident were rushed to the same hospital for treatment. Sabon-Gari said the state government and the Illela Local Government had mobilized additional medical personnel, who...

The Nigerian Police Force said Divisional Command Officer, Iheme Wilfred, was killed Sunday following a gunfight with 12-armed men in Ondo State.   Officer Wilfred was leading a patrol team on the Ijare-Akure road when he received a distress call that armed men were using the route after robbing a bank in Ikare , NPF spokesperson, Wole Ogodo, told SaharaReporters.   Officer Wilfred went after the men.  A thirty-minute gunfight ensued with the men overpowering the police, leaving Officer Wilfred dead.   "It's unfortunate we lost one of our dynamic Senior Police Officers in this incident," Ogodo said. "Wilfred served the command diligently for many years." A police source told SaharaReporters earlier that some junior police officers had abandoned Officer Wilfred, "We wouldn't have lost him if those officers stayed behind and fired at the robbers together. We learned our boys ran into the bush when they saw the robbers, leaving only the DCO to face them ...

The Ekiti State Police Command has arrested eight persons, including a serving Permanent Secretary in Ondo State over the raid of a commercial bank in Ikere Ekiti last Thursday. The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Victor Babayemi, who gave the hint in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital on Saturday, said the Permanent Secretary and others were arrested in a bush at Ijare, a border town between Ekiti and Ondo states. The Branch Manager of the bank, Ikere was also reportedly arrested following the incident. According to the police, the Permanent Secretary and three others were arrested while performing rituals at night in the bush through which the robbery bandits escaped. The armed gang had stormed a first generation bank at about 5.30 p.m killing two persons and injuring two others during a gun battle with the men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad. The PPRO said the Permanent Secretary and the three others were arrested at about 3 a.m by the police. Babayemi said the men were arrested ...

Tragedy struck, yesterday, at Oloje area of Ilorin when a housewife simply identified as Mariam allegedly struck her bricklayer husband to death with a stick following altercations  between them over N100. Vanguard  reliably gathered that the woman, a mother of four all late, had recently returned into her matrimonial home after she parted ways with her  husband following irreconcilable differences. The incident which occurred yesterday, had since thrown the community into mourning as sympathisers thronged the deceased’s compound. An eye-witness told  Vanguard  that  their relationship went sour again yesterday morning, leading to a hot argument between them  over N100 which the woman was said to have demanded from the husband. The deceased,the source added, was said to have told the wife that he had no money which did not go down well with the wife thereby degenerating into a hot argument between them. During the process, the wife was said to have p...