President Jonathan Vowed Twice Publicly Not to Contest 2015 - Obasanjo

Barely two months after former president Olusegun Obasanjo said in a letter that President Goodluck Jonathan promised to serve one term, he has restated that the president actually vowed to do so. Speaking to Bloomberg News, a London-based tabloid, yesterday, Obasanjo said during the 2011 electioneering, Jonathan promised to serve one term.b“President Jonathan said, not only once, twice, publicly, not only in Nigeria, outside Nigeria, that he would have one term, and said that to me,” Obasanjo said.
In the interview, Obasanjo challenged Jonathan to be a man of his words while reminding the president of the implication of not keeping vows.

I thank God For Saving my life----Dr. Brantly

The two Americandoctors who were treated for the Ebola virus after being infected with the deadly disease in Liberia, were, on Thursday, discharged from a United States hospital.“Today is a miraculous day,” Dr Kent Brantly, one of the doctors, said at a Thursday news conference in Atlanta, Georgia, with Emory University Hospital staff members.“I am thrilled to be alive, to be well and to be reunited with my family,”

My Late Husband Was Not An Evil man-- Decontee sawyer

The wife of the late Liberian- American, Patrick Sawyer has apologized for her earlier letter and commiserated with the family of the late Dr. Ameyo Stella Adedavoh.
Decontee Sawyer earlier spoke out in defense of her husband who brought Ebola into Nigeria and infected Adadevoh leading to her death on August 19.Speaking to Leadership, she said:"I share the pains that the family members of the Nigerian doctor are going through. It is just a pity that Patrick had to cause this damage both in Liberia and Nigeria.

My Deputy Lied Before Impeachment Panel – CHIME

Enugu State Government has described as false and misleading the statement by the deputy governor of the state, Sunday Onyebuchi that Governor Sullivan Chime operates a poultry and piggery at the Government House.
A statement signed by Chukwudi Achife, the Chief Press Secretary to Chime, said the deputy governor’s claims before the panel investigating the impeachment allegations of gross misconduct against Onyebuchi were malicious and intended to deceive the public.

I was offered N30,000 for human skull —Suspect

Operatives of  the Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja, Lagos have smashed a syndicate that specialised in selling human parts, arresting three of its  members.
The suspects are two popular herbalists in Sagamu area and a mother of two whose husband was alleged to be a supplier of the human parts.

Yar’Adua : I owe public no explanation – Oyedepo

General Overseer of the Living Faith Church, Bishop David Oyedepo yesterday confirmed that he actually visited ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua at the Presidential Villa but declined to give details of the management of his state of health.

Confab delegates form group to push for implementation of report

As the 2014  National Conference came to an end, yesterday, some delegates have formed a pressure group which main aim is to explore all necessary avenues to ensure that all the adopted recommendations of the conference are implemented by the Federal Government.

Confab has shamed critics: President Jonathan receives 22 volumes of report

Precisely 158 days after he inaugurated the 2014 National Conference, President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, received the report of the confab and vowed that his government would implement the recommendations.
The visibly elated President, who said that Nigerians had shamed critics, who thought the exercise would dismember the country, added that the government would discuss the outcome with the National Assembly and the Council of State on how to implement the report.

Enugu’s chicken impeachment: My story--Onyebuchi

The constituted seven man panel instituted by the Chief Judge of Enugu State to investigate allegations of misconduct levelled against the deputy governor of Enugu State, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi concluded its hearing on the issue with testimonies from the accused last Wednesday.
MR. Onyebuchi who had earlier appeared before the panel penultimate Wednesday, however, truncated proceedings when he took ill midway into his testimony on that day.

Another Bomb Scare: Residents Flee Iyanya Motor Park in Abuja

It has been chaos all the way at the Nyanya area of Abuja, after a Peugeot 406 car suspected to be laden with explosives was found parked in the middle of the road, causing motorist & passersby to run in different directions fearing that the car might explode.