Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, on Tuesday revisited the June 12, 1993 presidential election, describing its annulment as a robbery. Ribadu, who spoke in Lagos at the public presentation of a book, Diary of a debacle: Tracking Nigeria’s failed democratic transition (1989-1994), written by a literary scholar, Dr. Olatunji Dare, said annulment of the polls won by the late Basorun MKO Abiola amounts to political corruption.

A Nigerian woman has died in the United States of America of suspected cardiac arrest.Chinwe Ogbonna, 47, had been visiting the Potomac, Maryland, home of former Abia State governor, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, along with other friends, when she suffered what was believed to be a heart seizure. Her medical history later showed she had lived with a heart condition for some time. Ogbonna reportedly arrived the home of her host around 8.15pm on Thursday, last week,

Political leaders from both the South-south and South-east yesterday resolved to work together to ensure that President Goodluck Jonathan picks the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) ticket and wins the 2011 presidential election. The leaders, at a meeting held at the Asokoro, Abuja residence of prominent Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark also reviewed the political developments in the country. They vowed to work together to seek the support and endorsement

The Goodluck Support Group (GSG), yesterday declared that it has urgent and verifiable reasons why President Goodluck Jonathan must be pressurized by Nigerians to present himself for the 2011 presidential election. The declaration came as the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed said the time had come for Northern political leaders to be told in clear terms that other Nigerians have stakes in the enterprise called Nigeria.

National Security Adviser (NSA), General Muhammadu Gusau (Rtd) has resigned, Daily Sun, learnt yesterday. The dreaded spy chief had resigned about a month ago, but President Goodluck Jonathan is yet to approve his resignation. The development had engendered palpable tension in the nation’s seat of power as Gusau’s deputy, Col Kayode Are (retd) is yet to take full control of affairs. Gusau still comes to work occasionally. The outgoing NSA had nursed a long standing presidential

The Nigeria Police (Force CID) Alagbon, Lagos has begun a manhunt for a Lagos-based legal practitioner (name withheld) and some others, wanted over alleged illegal sale of a landed property belonging to Late Mrs. Francisca Adeoti Awolaja. The Late Mrs. Awolaja, former principal of Holy Child College, Lagos, who died in London on April 14, 1993, was a holder of landed property, with Lagos State C of O No. 63/63/19895) in respect of plot 19 Block 42 Lekki Pennisula Scheme One

It was indeed a black Sunday yesterday, as over 40 persons perished in a multiple road accident, on the bridge opposite Otedola Estate, near Berger Bus-Stop, on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The accident occurred between 10am and 11 am. Among the dead were a five-year-old child and his mother, whose charred bodies were still trapped in the wreckage when Daily Sun visited the scene. Also, a little boy, who was in a Mercedes Benz car with his parents, was killed.

It was double tragedy for one of the communities in Osisioma Ngwa Local Government of Abia State as a pastor with one of the orthodox churches has died as a result of the death of his wife in the hands of kidnappers. According to information made available to Daily Sun by a native of the village, who did not want his name in print for fear of being attacked, gunmen, believed to be kidnappers, had in June this year, abducted the wife of the pastor said to be in her 70s.

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan yesterday warned that Nigeria will no longer tolerate a situation where its soldiers sent on international peacekeeping operations are brutally murdered by militia groups in those countries. He called on the United Nations (UN), to as a matter of urgency change the rules of engagement if Nigerian soldiers must participate in peace support operations. The president who was speaking while declaring open a two-day international

It is not easy to tell sometimes the sort of reactions or feedback a columnist will get each week on the issue he decides to write on. However, some issues that thrust themselves as public discourse are so red-hot that you can tell by a drop of your pen that they will elicit an equivalent of a thunderclap. Could the personalities involved be the reason why issues concerning them generate such a huge tempest? Or is it the seriousness of the matter at stake