INEC to conclude Bayelsa governorship election on January 9
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has slated January 9, 2016 for the conclusion of the Bayelsa governorship election which was declared inconclusive earlier this month. Southern...
View ArticleWill Smith was really ‘kind of joking’ about running for US president
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air doesn’t exactly have his sights set on the White House. Will Smith clarified his comments about a potential bid for the presidency at the premiere of his new movie...
View ArticleDiezani isn’t dead–Family
The family of Nigeria’s former minister of petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has denied reports that she’s passed on. Rumours were beginning to swirl on Thursday that Diezani who is stricken with...
View Article“He is the king of kings”| Ooni replies persons who criticized him for...
The new Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, was actually criticized for going down on his knees and worshiping God during a thanksgiving service held in his honor at the Paul’s Anglican Church, Ife,...
View ArticleNo one should think they’ll intimidate us with soldiers during election...
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has warned that he would resist any move by the Federal Government to manipulate the coming National Assembly re-run election in the state with soldiers and...
View ArticleMTN refuses to pay fine, says it will fight it out with federal government in...
Nigeria’s biggest telecoms company, MTN, won’t be paying the N780bn fine imposed on it by the federal government until the courts decide on the matter, the company has warned. The country’s regulator,...
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@Piersmorgan: Sacking Mourinho is the single worst decision in football history
Football is a mad game played by mad people and followed by mad fans. We’ve seen footballers karate kick spectators, bite opponents and even get shot dead for failing to save a penalty. Managers have...
View ArticlePower supply plummets by 725mw in 24 hours
Nigerian electricity consumers are groaning at Christmas as most of the country slips into familiar darkness. According to new data from the Presidential Task Force on Power and the Federal Ministry...
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Father Mbaka meets with Buhari inside the Villa [Photos]
Fiery Catholic priest and the Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry in Enugu, Rev.-Father Ejike Mbaka, on Friday met behind closed-doors with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential...
View ArticleCourt of Appeal sacks Akwa Ibom Governor
A Court of Appeal in Abuja has sacked Governor Emmanuel Udom of Akwa Ibom State. The five-member panel upheld the petition of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), agreeing that the...
View ArticleLai Mohammed explains why today’s emergency FEC meeting was postponed
The federal government has postponed an emergency Federal Executive Council meeting summoned to discuss issues related to the 2016 Appropriation Bill on Friday. President Muhammadu Buhari will present...
View ArticleTinubu urges Buhari to remove subsidy on petrol
As a way of finding solution to the perennial fuel scarcity in the country, former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu on Friday in Kaduna urged President Muhammadu Buhari to...
View ArticleMilitary names new commander to lead Boko Haram war
The Defence Headquarters has named Major General Hassan Umoru to lead the Operation Lafiya Dole in the North East in a bid to reposition it for more efficiency, effectiveness and combat readiness in...
View ArticleTerrorists hack Lagos, Court of Appeal websites over El-zakzaky
By Tunde Ajaja A suspected terrorist group on Friday morning hacked the official website of the Lagos State government, http://www.lagosstate.gov.ng, and that of the Court of Appeal,...
View ArticleRivers Speaker resigns
Hon Ikuinyi Owaji-Ibani, whose election was among those annulled by the tribunal and the appellate court, has resigned as the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly. A new Speaker, Hon Adams...
View ArticleDiezani plans to escape to the Dominican Republic
Nigeria’s former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke has all but concluded plans to escape to the Commonwealth of Dominica whose citizenship she has acquired. Alison-Madueke’s new citizenship...
View ArticleArmy buried our members in mass graves to conceal death toll–Shiite sect
The Nigerian Army has been accused of burying the bodies of hundreds of victims of an alleged military massacre of Shiite Muslims to conceal the death toll, according to the Shiite Islamic Movement in...
View ArticleSheikh El-Zakzaky still in military custody
An army general has told online news site SaharaReporters that Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky is still in military custody, contrary to statements made by Army Chief of Staff Tukur Buratai to the public. The...
View ArticleMourinho says he isn’t leaving London
Mourinho may have been sacked from London side Chelsea, but he isn’t about to leave the city with which he won a clutch of trophies. The self acclaimed “Special One” has also said he’s taking a...
View ArticleThose soldiers who were sentenced to death during Sambo Dasuki’s era are now...
The death sentences by firing squad passed on 66 soldiers in January and March 2015 by separate General Court Martials have been commuted to 10 years imprisonment each, the spokesperson for the...
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