APC warns Fayose against increasing joblessness in Ekiti
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has warned the state governor, Ayo Fayose against throwing indigenes into joblessness with the reduction of the state ministries from 24 to 14. The...
View ArticleKwankwaso Reveals Why We Must All Forgive Edwin Clark
By Abdulsalam Muhammad KANO – Kano Governor and All Progressive Congress presidential hopeful, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso took a swipe on the political activities of Ijaw national leader, chief Edwin Clark...
View Article30 killed, 89 injured in Yobe bomb attack – Hospital
Potiskum (Yobe) – The Executive Secretary of Yobe Hospitals Management Board, Dr Mamman Mohammed, has confirmed that 119 casualties were reported with 30 deaths in the Monday bomb attack in Potiskum,...
View ArticleTransport Minister to meet with 36 State Commissioners over attacks on bus...
Minister for Transport, Idris Umar, revealed over the weekend in Gombe that a meeting of stakeholders in the transport sector would soon be convoked with the aim of fashioning out better measures that...
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Soyinka Denounces Jonathan Support Group Over Fabricated Report
Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has strongly denounced one of the groups campaigning for President Goodluck Jonathan’s reelection for attributing a fabricated report to him. The offensive report, published...
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Resignation: Fresh Plot To Remove PDP Chairman
Fresh moves are under way to unseat the national chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu. A member of the PDP, Emmanuel Onu, yesterday filed a fresh suit before a Federal...
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PDP Reps split over Tambuwal
•Majority leader exposes Ihedioha, Ogor over defection plot THERE appears to be crack in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) caucus in the House of Representatives over the defection of the Speaker,...
View ArticleAmaechi accuses security agencies of becoming armed wings of PDP
Governor Rotimi Ameachi of Rivers State has accused the security agencies of becoming the armed wing of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The governor said this at the formal declaration of Mr. Sam...
View ArticleUK to return £6.8million of Ibori’s stolen loot to Nigeria
The United Kingdom government is to return an additional 6.8 million pounds of the confiscated loot of former Delta Governor, James Ibori, to Nigeria. Rupert Broad, U.K. Metropolitan Police Senior...
View ArticleBoko Haram: Gombe Government orders closure of schools
Gombe State Government on Wednesday ordered the closure of all public and private schools in the state, a day after attack by suspected Boko Haram terrorists on two towns in the state. The News Agency...
View ArticleTambuwal has lost his seat as speaker for defecting, says Ohuabunwa
By Henry Umoru ABUJA- FORMER Deputy leader of the Federal House of Representatives, Mao Ohuabunwa has described the dumping of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP for the All Progressives Congress, APC...
View ArticleTB Joshua fails to appear at Lagos building collapse inquest
Prophet T. B Joshua has again failed to appear at the coroner’s inquest today to explain how 116 people died in a building collapse at his Lagos church, Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN). TB...
View ArticleBoko Haram assures residents of captured communities of their safety
Members of the Boko Haram have urged displaced residents of captured communities of Adamawa State to return to their communities as they have assured them of safety, Leadership Newspaper reports....
View ArticleFashola asks INEC to explain why 1.4million names are missing from Lagos...
Just few days to the distribution of the Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, in Lagos State, Governor Babatunde Fashola has questioned the disappearance of 1.447 million voters from the Lagos voters’ list...
View ArticleSenate backs Tambuwal, vows to protect legislature
The Senate abruptly adjourned sitting on Wednesday without taking decision on any issue, including the bills before it. Before the adjournment which was protested by the All Progressives Congress...
View ArticleBoko Haram Carries out Pogrom Against Christians in Mubi
By Paul Obi in Abuja and Daji Sani in Yola with agency report The security situation in Mubi, Adamawa State’s second largest city, keeps taking a turn for the worse as Boko Haram terrorists have...
View ArticleBreaking: Boko Haram Chief Sponsor Sentenced
Justice Saliu Saidu of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday sentenced a man described as financier of Boko Haram sect to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour. The convict was said to...
View ArticleNigerian man banned from work in the UK after visiting Nigeria
Nigerian/British man Sam Ayodele Ogunnoiki has been banned from his security job after returning to the UK following a 3-week trip to Nigeria to visit his mother. The reason he was banned from work is...
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The drama behind Tambuwal’s defection – Akande, House Leader
MRs. Mulikat Akande-Adeola was in pole position to emerge speaker of the House of Representatives in 2011 having been nominated by her party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, when Aminu Tambuwal...
View ArticleCourt strips FRSC of power to fine motorists for traffic offences
A Federal High Court in Lagos has voided the powers of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) to impose fines on motorists for traffic offences. Justice John Tsoho held that the FRSC could not turn...
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