President Muhammadu Buhari is billed to commission three helicopters purchased by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s administration as part of efforts to beef up security in the state. Read More…
EFFORTS by senators of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to convince the Senate to summon President Muhammadu Buhari to give reasons for the ongoing fuel scarcity in the country, were frustrated, yesterday, by their counterparts in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Read More…
Ahead of the December 5, 2015 governorship election in Bayelsa state, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND has distanced itself from a purported endorsement of the incumbent governor, Henry Seriake Dickson. Read More…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mallam Abubakar Malami and the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmud Yakubu, to resign their positions. Read More…
he Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC is to conduct supplementary elections on December 5 in the 59 polling units where the governorship election was cancelled in Kogi State last Saturday. Read More…
The Central Bank Of Nigeria has taken tough measures against state governors who are playing politics with the Bailout Fund, with a decision to withdraw their allocations. Read More…
Dakuku Peterside, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Rivers State governorship election has lamented the loss of lives during the last election, saying there was a need to honour them. Read More…
The Bayelsa State governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson and the former acting governor of the state, Chief Nestor Binabo, yesterday engaged in accusation and counter accusation over Binabo’s allegation that his life is being threatened by the state governor. Read More…
The Department of the State Service (DSS) has secured an order of the Federal High Court, Abuja, to detain the leader of the Biafran Republic agitators, Mr Nnamdi Kanu for another 90 day. Read More…
The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has claimed ignorance of the death of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress in last Saturday’s gubernatorial election in Kogi state, Prince Abubakar Audu. Read More…
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed shock over the news of Abubakar Audu’s death, saying he was personally devastated by the sad development.
“We are obviously devastated at the loss”, he said. Read More…
The remains of former Kogi governor, Prince Abubakar Audu was this afternoon laid to rest at Ogbonicha, Ofu Local Government Area. The burial took place at his residence. Read More…
Reports from the court say the embattled Director of Radio Biafra and Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, was finally arraigned on Monday, in an Abuja Magistrate Court. Read More…
DIVISION was the lot of lawyers, Sunday, over how the country could proceed with the Kogi State governorship election following the death of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship Candidate, Prince Abubakar Audu. Read More…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday said it would react to Saturday’s Kogi gubernatorial election, declared inconclusive by INEC, after getting facts about the election. Read More…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared Kogi State governorship election inconclusive. Read More…
THE leadership of a faction for the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, weekend, alleged that Nnamdi Kanu, the promoter of Radio Biafra, detained by security operatives, may have been murdered. Read More…
The Minister of National Planning in the previous administration, Dr Abubakar Olanrewaju Sulaiman has lambasted former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Prof Charles Soludo for claiming that former President, Goodluck Jonathan had the worst economic management team, saying his statement was borne out of political desperation.
Never in the history of Kogi politics has a governorship been keener contested. It was an altercation between the power of incumbency and the change hurricane. Read More…
The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has directed all Igbo living outside Igbo land to start returning home and re-establish their businesses and investments in the South-East. Read More…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), on Friday, said workers in the country would resist any attempt by government to review downwards the current N18,000 national minimum wage. Read More…
Immediate-past President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, debunked allegations that his administration awarded contract for arms procurement to the tune of $2 billion. Read More…
Federal High Court sitting in Makurdi on Thursday, has sacked the Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly speaker, Terkimbi Ikyange of the All Progressive Congress (APC). Read More…