The Joint Military Task Force in the Niger Delta, codenamed Operation Pulo Shield, said its operatives shot dead a suspected militant in a gun battle along the creek of Idema Community in Ogbia Local Government Area (LGA) of Bayelsa State. Read More…
The Senate on Monday demanded a publicly-tendered apology from Rotimi Amaechi, the Minister of Transportation, challenging him to show evidence that the Lagos-Calabar road project was included in the 2016 budget proposal sent to the National Assembly. Read More…
Justice Abdul Kafarati of the Federal High Court judge, reversing his position, will this week return to the bench to give a major ruling on the human rights case filed by embattled Senate President Bukola Saraki to stop his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal. Read More…
TWO students of the University of Port Harcourt were on Monday feared killed during a protest over an alleged policy by the management of the institution that school fees must be paid before they would be allowed to take their first semester examinations. Read More…
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Ita Enang, on Monday said President Muhammmadu Buhari did not reject the 2016 budget as being speculated. Read More…
A controversy concerning the Lagos-Calabar Coastal railway project is threatening to ignite a new battle between the executive and legislative arms of the government over the 2016 Appropriation Bill. Read More…
The Nigeria Army has opened its oil and gas filling station in Minna, Niger state capital. Read More…
President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived China on his four days visit to strengthen diplomatic relations between the People’s Republic of China and Nigeria. Read More…
Temitope Joshua is arguably the most influential preacher in Africa. The founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nation (SCOAN) attracts huge numbers of people from across Africa and beyond, many of them seeking faith healing from ailments and exorcism from demonic possession. Read More…
A former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, on Monday triumphed at the Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS) court in the first leg of his court action challenging his alleged unlawful arrest and detention since December last year by the Nigerian government. Read More…
Former creek warrior, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, better known as Tompolo has approached the Federal High Court in Lagos seeking an order restraining the Federal Government and its agencies from further proceeding with the N45.9bn fraud charges filed against him. Read More…
There were indications on Sunday that the National Assembly’s peace moves with the executive over the 2016 budget crisis had flopped. Read More…
At a January 2014 forum tagged ” Aviation Workers Buy-In”, Senator Stella Oduah, the then Aviation Minister, proudly announced to her audience that immense progress had been made in the country’s aviation sector under her. Read More…
Students of University of Port Hacourt are protesting over the hike in the university’s tuition fee and other levies Read More…
Senator Gbenga Ashafa, who chairs the Senate Committee on “Land Transportation,” has debunked the assertion by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and the Chair of House of Representatives Read More…
Apparently disappointed with the drastic reduction of budgetary allocation to capital projects in the 2016 budget estimates, President Muhammadu Buhari, his vice, Yemi Osinbajo and Nat. Read More…
The Federal Government has opened a file on all Nigerians whose names have been mentioned in the Panama Papers as operating offshore accounts in notorious tax havens. Read More…
President Muhammadu Buhari appears set to return the 2016 Budget to the National Assembly to rework because what the lawmakers sent to him on Thursday for assent, according to Presidency sources, Read More…
Vice President Osinbajo Media Team Releases Photos of ” friendly” Kano crowd. Read More…
Defying a downpour which lasted several hours on Saturday, thousands of ordinary people of Bayelsa state marched out to pay their last respects to the late ex-governor of the state, Mr Diepreye Alamieyeseigha. Read More…
The Presidency has dismissed the allegations by former Governor Ibrahim Shekarau of Kano State that the Buhari administration is insensitive to the plight of Nigerians. Read More…
In its efforts to stem the tide of terrorism in the country, the Directorate of Security Services, DSS has arrested one of the founders of Jama’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid Da’wah Wa’l-Jihad (Boko Haram) and later the Amir of the break-away faction, Jama’at Ansarul Muslimim Fi Biladi Sudan (JAMBS). Read More…
The Brazilian is determined to extend his stay at Stamford Bridge, though will accept a move to a different English side if the Blues deem him surplus to requirements. Read More…
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