#BayelsaDecides: Sylva says Seriake Dickson’s victory can’t stand, heads to...
The APC candidate in the just concluded Bayelsa election, Mr. Timipre Sylva, will be heading to court to challenge the victory of incumbent Seriake Dickson. Speaking to journalists in Bayelsa on...
View ArticleThis is what Fashola’s road-map for reviving the power sector sounds like
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Monday unfolded a 13-point agenda to drive efforts towards enhancing power supply in the country. Mr. Fashola said in Abuja during his...
View ArticleMetuh vows he’d rather starve than return N400m from #DasukiGate
It is no longer news that PDP spokesperson, Olisa Metuh, has been on a hunger strike since he was picked up by EFCC operatives a week ago. What is perhaps news is that he’s not about to abandon this...
View Article“I have never met Dasuki in my life. I don’t even know Dasuki”–Jim Nwobodo
Former governor of old Anambra State, former sports minister and former senator all rolled into one, Chief Jim Nwobodo, doesn’t know who Sambo Dasuki is, or was. Jim Nwobodo has been named in a list...
View ArticleNo life was lost during Bayelsa election–Police
The commissioner of police in Bayelsa State, Peter Ogunyanwo, has said that contrary to various reports, there were no casualties from the just concluded Bayelsa governorship election. Media reports...
View ArticleLawyer withdraws suit demanding Metuh’s release. “I’m not against Buhari”, he...
Lagos-based lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, says he is withdrawing the suit he filed on Monday to challenge the continued detention of the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party,...
View ArticleThere were actually two versions of the same budget in the senate, said Saraki
If the caption for this story sounds confusing, that’s because it is. Controversy continued in the red chamber of the national assembly on Thursday, when two different versions of the federal budget...
View ArticleDogara pledges to support security agencies in fighting crime and terrorism
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has reiterated the commitment of the House – under his leadership – to support security agencies in the fight against terrorism and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Africa is declared Ebola free
(CNN)–The World Health Organization declared an end Thursday to the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa. But the global health organization cautioned that Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone remain at...
View ArticleBuhari’s aide says next to nothing about his smuggling two different copies...
The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on National Assembly (Senate) matters, Ita Enang, was evasive when asked by online newspaper, Premium Times, about the two different versions...
View ArticlePDP asks its members in the national assembly to commence impeachment...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on its members in the national assembly where it holds a minority position, to kick-start impeachment proceedings against President Muhammadu Buhari. The...
View ArticleEFCC hits Metuh with 7-count charge. READ the full charge sheet
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has slammed the PDP national publicity secretary, Olisa Metuh with a seven-count charge after proceeds from the $2.1bn earmarked for arms, found...
View ArticleChrist Embassy goes up in flames
A section of the Christ Embassy church in Oregun, Ikeja area of Lagos was gutted by fire late on Wednesday, destroying expensive equipment of the church. Eyewitnesses say the fire was caused by an...
View ArticleDoctor dies of Lassa fever in Rivers
A medical doctor with Rivers State-owned Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital, BMH, Dr. Livy Ijamala, has died from Lassa Fever, bringing to three the number of people killed by the disease in the...
View Article‘Buhari was cold, irritated, unsympathetic’| #BringBackOurGirls group return...
When members of the #BringBackOurGirls advocacy group led by former Minister Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili visited the nation’s seat of power on Thursday, to press home their demand for the rescue of the...
View ArticleMetuh remanded in Kuje prison
The national publicity secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh has been sent to the Kuje prison facility in Abuja after he pleaded not guilty to a seven-count charge bordering on fraud and money...
View ArticleSupreme court upholds Governor Ortom’s election
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the election of Samuel Ortom as Governor of Benue state. In his ruling which lasted just 10 minutes, Justice Sylvester Ngwuta dismissed the appeal brought by...
View ArticleVIDEO: Minister of women affairs addresses parents of Chibok girls and #BBOG...
Minister of Women affairs, Senator Aisha Alhassan received plenty of flak after the federal government’s meeting with parents of the abducted schoolgirls from Chibok and the #BringBackOurGirls...
View ArticleBuhari orders probe of former service chiefs
On the recommendation of the committee established to audit the procurement of arms and equipment in the Armed Forces and Defence sector from 2007 to 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Celine Dion’s husband dies of cancer
Rene Angelil, the husband and former manager of Celine Dion, has died aged 73, the singer has announced. Mr Angelil, who Dion married in 1994 and with whom she has three children, died at home in Las...
View Article