Judge silent on restoration of Tambuwal’s security, adjourns case till...
The Attorney General of the Federation and the Inspector General of Police yesterday said following the defection of Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, to the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), he does not...
View ArticleBUSH MEAT ATTACKS THE HUNTER: Army Generals Flee From Boko Haram Insurgents
Even as the Nigerian military stepped up efforts at beating back the extremist Boko Haram sect from the areas it currently occupies, including the commercial border town of Mubi in Adamawa state, the...
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Jonathan orders SSS to release Emir Sanusi’s passport
In what appears the end of the fierce face-off between President Goodluck Jonathan and the Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, the State Security Services has returned to the Emir his travelling...
View ArticleBoko Haram, a political instrument of govt — Musa
A Second Republic Governor of Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa, has described Boko Haram as an instrument of government created to destabilise the country and to shift focus during the 2015 elections. In an...
View ArticleGunmen kill Gov. Al-Makura’s driver in wife’s presence
Gunmen suspected to be Fulani, yesterday, killed Mr. Abdullahi Ozegya Mairuwa, one of the drivers of Governor Umaru Tanko Almakura of Nasarawa State along Obi Keana Awe Road. Mairuwa, in the company of...
View ArticleInsecurity: Resign now, lawmaker tells Al-Makura
A member of in the National Assembly, representing Akwanga, Wamba and Nasarawa-Eggon Federal Constituency from Nasarawa State, Honourable David Ombugadu, on Saturday, asked the state governor, Umaru...
View ArticleJonathan’ll get 4m votes in South-West —G15
President Goodluck Jonathan has been assured he will get a minimum of four million votes in the South-West to ensure his re-election in the 2015 presidential poll. The assurance was given by a group...
View ArticleBoko Haram: Military begins ‘Operation No Mercy’
In the wake of heavy losses recorded in the hands of Boko Haram insurgents in recent times, the Nigerian Military has launched operation no mercy to decisively deal with the rampaging terrorists,...
View Article2015 AND 30,000 PUs: Plans to rig presidential poll exposed
*Questions Jega must answer In what now appears to be an ego problem for Professor Atahiru Jega, National Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, his messianic pursuit of the...
View ArticlePVCs distribution hiccups designed to rig 2015 polls — Tinubu
By Olasunkanmi Akoni and Dapo Akirefon All Progressives Congress, APC, National Leader and immediate past Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has accused the Independent National Electoral...
View ArticleAttackers of slain head driver Govt. House will not go scot free, says Gov...
Keana (Nasarawa) – Gov. Umaru Al-makura of Nasarawa State on Sunday, said those who killed the head driver of the state Government House, Abdullahi Mairuwa, “will not go scot free”. Al-makura gave the...
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2015: The man who will present Jonathan to Nigerians
BY HENRY UMORU THE National Executive Committee, NEC, of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, September, 18, at its 66 the meeting, adopted President Goodluck Jonathan as the party’s sole...
View ArticleBoko Haram shows new caliphate in latest video, denies any form of truce
Nigeria’s Boko Haram terrorist group has claimed an unprecedented victory in its new video obtained by AFP on Sunday. The video shows militants on an armoured vehicle parading themselves in an...
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BREAKING: Military chopper crashes in Adamawa while on surveillance
A crash has been reported of a Nigerian military helicopter on a surveillance mission in Adamawa state. Reports by Premium Times say it came down in Damare, a suburb of Girei Local Government Area of...
View ArticleNigeria military helicopter goes down with several foreigners on board –...
Kano – The Nigeria military said one of its helicopters made an emergency landing in the restive northeast on Monday, while witnesses and a security source reported that the chopper crashed with...
View ArticleLagos’ 6.1 million registered voters an error —INEC
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Sunday, admitted that it made an error in the earlier figure of 6.1 million registered voters announced for Lagos State in 2011. INEC said the...
View ArticleJonathan gives conditions for listing FG contractors
President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday warned that from 2015, the Federal Government would not do business with any contractor not captured in the Bureau of Public Procurement’s (BPP) database. Jonathan...
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Kebbi: Former JTF Commander in new war front
BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME MAJOR General Sarkin Yakin Bello (rtd) who marked his name in the war against militancy in the Niger Delta region is set for another war where the rules of engagement are as...
View ArticleCDS denies evacuating family before Boko Haram attacked hometown in Adamawa
Contrary to a misinformation that has gone viral on cyberspace, Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh has said he never sent any helicopter to his home town in Adamawa State to evacuate members of his...
View ArticleNigeria will not break up in 2015 — Oritsejafor
DELTA State governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan and President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, declared, on Sunday, that contrary to dooms day predictions, Nigeria will...
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