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President Goodluck Jonathan in Minna yesterday described the five governors who defected from the ruling party to the All Progressives Congress as ingrates. He said the defected governors left the PDP on self-exile, even as Niger State Governor, Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu pleaded that the party should leave its door widely open for the governors whom, he said, would soon return to the PDP after seeing the light. Addressing party loyalists at the North-central zonal solidarity rally held at the Trade Fair Complex in Minna, Jonathan wondered how people who had benefited immensely from the PDP as governors and ministers since the inception of the party in 1999 would now turn round to jettison it and call it names. He told his cheering audience that performance, not media propaganda wins elections, urging the people not to be deceived by the propaganda of the opposition party. Jonathan urged the people to see the opposition APC as chameleon that cannot be trusted. Speaker after s...

Ex-Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Ms Ama Pepple, has explained why President Goodluck Jonathan removed her as minister in September, 2013. The former Head of Service of the Federation, was removed at the time eight other ministers nominated by governors and others opposed to President Jonathan were removed from office. Pepple told Sunday Sun exclusively in Abuja that she believed it was the same reason that led to her exit from Jonathan’s cabinet. She wondered what other reason could be adduced for her removal, having been efficient, effective and hardworking. The former Permanent Secretary in the Federal Civil Service Commission, Ministries of Transport, Information and National Orientation, Petroleum Resources, Commerce, Agriculture and Rural Development and Finance, said: “I believe that is what happened. I know.” According to Pepple, “That must be the reason. Ok, as a minster, how do you think I performed? You are a Nigerian, assessing me. Did I do...

How we escaped bullets during Boko Haram night attack on Catholic seminary school From TIMOTHY OLANREWAJU, Maiduguri Their accounts can move even the stone-hearted to tears. The 300 students and teachers of Maiduguri Diocese of St Joseph Catholic Minor Seminary School have seen death with the horrendous bombing and shooting in their school recently by Boko Haram insurgents, but they are alive to tell the story. Two guards in the school were not so lucky. They were killed by the mindless attackers. Face to face with the rampaging Boko Haram who invaded their school at Shuwa, Michika Local Government of Adamawa State in the night while studying in their preparatory classes, the students were compelled to jump the perimeter fence of the school and escaped into the nearby bushes. But their escape turned out to be an excruciating experience. “We were like walking in the shadow of death,” one of the students, Charles Aji told   Sunday Sun . “It was just few days after Boko Har...