Nigeria will keep importing petrol beyond 2016–Kachikwu
Nigeria’s Minister of State for petroleum, Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu has said the country won’t wean itself off imported petrol in 2016 and beyond. The minister addressed a press conference after a tour...
View ArticleWe’ll finance our N6trn budget largely from non oil sources–Fayemi
The Minister of Solid Minerals and former Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has said the N6.08 trillion 2016 budgetary proposal presented before the National Assembly by President Muhammadu...
View ArticlePDP will die a natural death and no way am I going back to a corpse–Alao Akala
Former Governor of Oyo State, Adebayo Alao-Akala is so done with the PDP he won’t even consider returning for the party’s interment. Alao-Akala dumped the PDP in 2015 after he was passed over for the...
View ArticleDasuki’s loot is all shades of blood money–Borno State Governor
Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima regards the revelations coming out of what has been dubbed #DasukiGate, as the height of man’s inhumanity to man. Billions of naira meant to procure arms for the...
View ArticleExplosion kills 20 in Maiduguri mosque
Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, has been bombed. Again. Eyewitnesses who have contacted Ekekeee say one fleeing suicide bomber left an IED from Sunday’s fight with the army in the mosque and...
View ArticleAfghan militia behead ISIS fighters
Militiamen loyal to an influential Afghan lawmaker beheaded four Islamic State fighters and publicly displayed their severed heads, officials said Sunday, highlighting an increasingly brutal conflict...
View ArticleEFCC set to detain former Attorney General Adoke tomorrow over Malabu deal
A former Attorney General, Mohammed Adoke is likely to be grilled and detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for his role in the Malabu oil scandal, according to...
View ArticleSenator Shehu Sani has been suspended by Kaduna APC
For anti-party activities, the official charge sheet reads, but Senator Sani has previously said he doesn’t care about the Kaduna State chapter of the APC. But that didn’t stop the Tudun Wada ward of...
View ArticleIs Ribadu about to return to the APC? Here’s why everyone thinks so
A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and arguably one of the commission’s most controversial and successful bosses yet, Nuhu Ribadu, has set tongues wagging again...
View ArticleThe US apparently wants to resume purchasing Nigerian crude
Minister of State for Petroleum Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachukwu has raised the hopes of Nigerians as it pertains to dwindling oil revenues, with the news that the United States will now buy some crude from...
View ArticleHow one soldier fighting Boko Haram in Borno, sends weapons to robbers in Lagos
Among the eight suspects recently picked up by the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, SIRT, for supplying arms and ammunition to robbers in Lagos, was a Lance Corporal of...
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“Jega you are tribalistic, we will not take it”| The Top 10 political quotes...
Nigeria’s general election year left us with plenty of histrionics, high-wire politics and words to chew on. Some of those words, we’ll never forget any time soon. We bring you the 10 most memorable...
View ArticleCheta Nwanze: An open letter to President Buhari
Dear President Buhari, We are in dangerous times, and your actions, or inactions, will count for a lot. The truth is that whenever someone begins a project, especially a project which he has fought so...
View ArticleEniola Bello: Why it’s important to tame El-Zakzaky and his likes
Since the clash, some two weeks ago, between the convoy of the Army Chief, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, and some members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMIN) otherwise known as the Shiites, with...
View ArticleHow we picked up Radio Biafra’s Nnamdi Kanu in Lagos–DSS
By Eric Ikhilae The Department of State Services (DSS) has given details of how its men apprehended the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. The...
View ArticleI am not in hiding or running from the law–Obanikoro
Online news site SaharaReporters had ran a story alleging that former minister of state for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, has fled to the United States as he tries to evade arrest from the EFCC and DSS...
View ArticlePresidency outlines what Buhari will discuss during tomorrow’s media chat
President Muhammadu Buhari will hold his first media chat tomorrow (Wednesday, December 30) like we had earlier reported. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina says “in...
View ArticleMeet the suspect who hid cocaine right inside his anus
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested Maxwell Obumneme Ikeh at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) in Ikeja, Lagos, with substances that tested positive for...
View ArticleAPC upholds suspension of Senator Shehu Sani
The Kaduna State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has upheld the suspension of the senator representing Kaduna central in the legislature, Shehu Sani, for anti-party activities,...
View ArticleIn a legal battle to look out for, federal government asks court to dismiss...
Mobile telephony company, MTN, had been slapped with a fine of N1.4 trillion by the regulator Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) for failing to deactivate unregistered subscribers from its...
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