MASSOB threatens worldwide protests if Radio Biafra Director isn’t set free
The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State Of Biafra (MASSOB) has promised to join arms with the beleaguered Radio Biafra if its Director, Nnamdi Kanu isn’t released sooner. Related:...
View Article‘My abductors weren’t mere criminals. They wanted to eliminate me’| Olu Falae...
Former secretary to the government of the federation and front-line politician, Chief Olu Falae, has frowned at the Department of State Services’ (DSS) description of the bandits who kidnapped him as...
View ArticleThis is why Oliseh will drop Emmanuel Emenike from his world cup team next month
There are very strong indications that Sunday Oliseh will axe Emmanuel Emenike from next month’s World Cup qualifier against Swaziland after the striker failed to deliver in four matches under the new...
View ArticleBoko Haram kills 12 in Adamawa Village
A band of armed men suspected to be Boko Haram members, on Saturday stormed a village in Adamawa, north east Nigeria, leaving 12 persons dead in their wake. Narrating how the attack occurred, Maina...
View ArticleCattle rustlers deserve the maximum punishment, says Emir Sanusi
The Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, has called on the Nigerian judiciary to punish cattle rustlers with the maximum legal punishment there is. 72 suspected cattle rustlers were recently arrested in...
View ArticleWhy I didn’t abandon Jonathan after the general elections–Fayose
Ekiti State governor Ayodele Fayose has said it would have been easier for him to desert Nigeria’s former president, Goodluck Jonathan, after he lost the March vote, but he wasn’t brought up that way....
View ArticleAPC caucus senators meet today to save Amaechi
Senators belonging to the fold of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the upper legislative chamber, will hold a series of meetings today with one agenda in mind–ensuring that Chibuike Rotimi...
View ArticleTanzanians are very excited because Jonathan is arriving their country for...
Former president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, who is leading the 54-member nations of the Commonwealth as part of the international observers to monitor the Tanzanian general election scheduled for October...
View ArticleWaziri Adio: Notes on ministerial list and screening
It was inevitable. After a four-month wait for ministerial nominees, the longest of such wait since we adopted the presidential system in 1979, the lists and the screening of ministerial nominees have...
View ArticleThe EFCC has arrested a former governor of Kebbi State
Usman Dakingari who was elected Kebbi governor in 2007 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been arrested by the EFCC over allegations that he laundered N3.8billion from the...
View ArticleGabriel Suswam’s wife escapes stoning from irate traders
The wife of the immediate past governor of Benue state, Gabriel Suswam narrowly escaped death by stoning in Abuja, on Sunday, October 18, following an attack by traders. Daily Post reports that Yemisi...
View ArticleSegun Adeniyi: The lesson from Jonathan
“You look good, Sir”. That was my first comment when I met former President Goodluck Jonathan about three weeks ago and I meant it. Unlike the last time I visited him in July last year at the Villa,...
View ArticleOlu Falae wants you to know that he earned no salary as finance minister
Recently abducted Chief Olu Falae was former finance minister and former secretary to the government of the federation in previous eras. However, he has said as finance minister, he forfeited his...
View ArticleEmenike hasn’t picked my calls since he announced his retirement–Oliseh
Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh has said Emmanuel Emenike who announced he was hanging up his Nigerian boots earlier this week, has been unreachable since he took the decision. Oliseh also said he...
View Article‘Finance, weather and impatience of motorists’| FG explains why Lagos-Ibadan...
The Ministry of Works has said that the contractor handling Section II of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway reconstruction and expansion project, Reynolds Construction Company, RCC, was facing challenges of...
View ArticleI remain the governor of Akwa Ibom as the tribunal has affirmed–Udom Emmanuel
The Governor of Akwa Ibom State on Thursday reacted to the judgment of the Akwa Ibom state governorship election tribunal. According to Governor Emmanuel Udom, the judgment is an indication that...
View ArticleAmaechi’s screening commences, alongside 5 others
The senate has just announced that Rotimi Amaechi, Heineken Lokpobiri, Daramola and 3 others will be screened today. Amaechi and APC leaders have just been ushered into the senate chamber and Amaechi...
View Article#MinisterialScreening: Amaechi passes his screening in political colors
It all began as an anti-climax when minority leader Godswill Akpabio cited order 43 and declared that the opposition PDP senators wouldn’t be asking Rotimi Amaechi any questions until they had looked...
View ArticleNigeria returns to mercenaries to help defeat Boko Haram before December
Nigeria may have returned to the mercenaries who helped in the push back of the Boko Haram insurgents in the dying days of the Jonathan administration, a Turkish news agency is reporting. According to...
View ArticleAPC says it will appeal Akwa Ibom tribunal judgment
The APC has announced that it will contest the judgment of a tribunal which ordered a rerun of the contentious April 11 Akwa Ibom vote on Wednesday. Chairman of the party in the state, Amadu Atai,...
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