Mr Okoi Obono-Obla, Chairman, Special Presidential Investigation Panel on the Recovery of Public Property, has denied reports that he was under pressure to resign, saying the “purported report is false, baseless and wicked”. Obono-Obla said on Thursday in Lagos said [...]
Supporters of Governor Darius Ishaku on Wednesday asked the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole, to retract his comment against the Taraba helmsman or face court action. Chairman of Taraba Network for Peace and Development, Alhaji [...]
Another Nigerian Army soldier has committed suicide in Borno State. Adegor Okpako, a staff sergeant attached to 192 Battalion in Gwoza, killed himself at about 2:50 p.m. Wednesday, according to military sources. Mr Okpako also killed another sergeant colleague who [...]
Popular Singer, John Asiemo, famously known as Daddy Showkey, has disclosed his intention to join politics soon. The ‘Ghetto Soldier’, while speaking on Rubbin Minds, a programme on Channels TV, said he would join politics to help Nigerians in Ajegunle, [...]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Wednesday reacted to the invitation of it’s governorship candidate in the Saturday’s election, Ademola Adeleke by the Nigeria Police Force. Adeleke was asked to appear before the police for questioning over alleged examination malpractice [...]
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said its members will commence nationwide strike alongside civil society organisations on September 26 unless the tripartite committee completes its assignment on the new minimum wage. NLC President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, made the declaration [...]
Chairman of Concerned Ughelli South Youths for Good Governance (CUSYGG), Mr. Akpokiboro Ediyere, has called on the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta State to provide a level-playing ground for all aspirants to the House of Assembly [...]
The Transmission Monitoring Group (TMG) has alleged inducement of voters ahead of the governorship election scheduled to hold on September 22. According to the group, there are reports of distribution of money, food items and other gifts by politicians at [...]
Fortune may smile on Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode as the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) steps up pressure on National Leader Bola Tinubu to back the incumbent’s re-election. The duo has been at loggerheads, with Tinubu supporting [...]
A group, Omoluabi United, has advised the Chairman, Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, not to get involved in the partisan politics of the governorship election. In a statement by the spokesman, Opeyemi Ige, the group urged Dangote not to give [...]
Olatunde Adetunji, a 31-year-old member of a notorious armed robbery gang that specializes in robbing bank customers within Ikeja and Isolo areas of Lagos State, has been arrested. He was nabbed by operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special [...]
The Police Service Commission (PSC) yesterday said it would deploy over 40 of its officials to monitor the conduct of policemen on duty during the September 22 election. PSC said the team would be led by Barrister Rommy Mom, a [...]
The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has disclosed that the review of ports concession agreements have reached advanced stage and would be signed in by December. This may engender a new regime that will herald improved ports efficiency in the country’s [...]
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday presided over the Economic Management Team (EMT) meeting meant to discuss the controversial issue of minimum wage. The meeting at the Presidential Villa was attended by the following ministers: Zainab Ahmed (finance), Udo Udoma (budget [...]
Rapid population growth in some Africa’s poorest countries could put future progress towards reducing global poverty and improving health at severe risk, a report by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has revealed. Co-Chairman of the foundation, Bill Gates, said [...]
The Federal Government said it has provided free meals for 8.96 million school children under its Home Grown School Feeding Programme. Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udo Udoma, who disclosed this yesterday in Abuja at a media briefing [...]
Kidnappers yesterday abducted a director and two staff of Shehu Idris College of Health Sciences and Technology in Makarfi Council, Kaduna State, along Zaria/Makarfi expressway. At press time, no ransom had been placed on the victims, even as family members [...]
The tension between All Progressives Congress National Leader Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu and Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode over who steers the state in 2019 was absent when both men met yesterday at the launch of Africa Rise And Shine, written [...]
Civil society organisations have filed a suit against the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), Chief of Army staff, Lt. General Turkur Buatai and General Officer Commanding (GOC) 82nd Division of the Nigerian Army, Major General Emmanuel Boman [...]
Suit against EFCC adjourned to October 18: The Federal Capital Territory High Court will on October 18 continue hearing on a suit by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Chief Godwin Obla against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). [...]
Former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has revealed that his heart was with President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 election, despite being a member of the then ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Akpabio, who was the senate [...]
An African Democratic Congress (ADC) gubernatorial aspirant in Oyo state, Barrister Sarafadeen Abiodun Alli has declared that past governors who have ruled the state failed because they had no knowledge of the problems the people of the state had been [...]
No fewer than twenty branches of new generation banks have been sealed over failure to pay the annual environmental levy to the purse of Oyo state government in Ibadan, the state capital. Hope For Nigeria reports that the banks were [...]
When at the beginning of this year former President Olusegun Obasanjo wrote a public statement dismissing the two major political parties, All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as lacking in credibility, most Nigerians saw his assertions against [...]
The son of the first female president of Nigeria’s Court of Appeal Zainab Bulkachuwa has joined the race to succeed Hassan Dankwambo as the governor of Gombe State. Aliyu Haidar Abubakar is contesting on the platform of the All Progressives [...]
Ganduje nominates Gawuna as Deputy Governor: Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has sent the name of the Commissioner for Agriculture, Alhaji Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna to the state Assembly as his Deputy Governor nominees. Ganduje is seeking the approval of [...]
Nigerian Senate president and 2019 presidential hopeful Bukola Saraki has said his position in the National Assembly is in the national interest, saying he will not step down until his term runs out. Saraki had been under fire by the [...]
The Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode has urged corps members posted to the state to look inward and create projects that would positively affect people in their host communities. Ambode gave the advice on Monday in Lagos, during the [...]
Mrs Mercy Ayodele is the candidate of the Restoration Party of Nigeria (RPN) in the September 22 governorship election in Osun State. In this interview with BISI OLADELE, she describes politics as “very hectic and deep,” but said it should not [...]
Mr. Labaran Maku, the National Secretary of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), has warned politicians against creating division among Christians and Muslims in Nasarawa. Maku, a former Minister of Information and governorship aspirant of APGA in the state, gave [...]
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