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Aminu Tambuwal, Speaker of the House of Representatives, has ordered the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to resume its investigation into the alleged  N10billion expended on chattered private jets by the Min‎ister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. Tambuwal ordered resumption of the investigation on wednesday, during a plenary session, debunking rumours that the probe had […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has on Wednesday, accused the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) of celebrating terrorism, in response to the statement released by the APC on Tuesday accusing President Goodluck Jonathan of lackadaisical attitude toward the activities of the Boko Haram insurgents in the country. In a statement signed by its National Publicity […]

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, on Wednesday visited the scene of Tuesday twin bomb blasts in Jos, Plateau State, urging Nigerians to be more vigilant. He also promised to ensure that the perpetrators are brought to account. The twin blast had resulted in the death of about 200 people, but official figures put the […]

In security matters, it is difficult to describe a planned event as phantom, because the men who create the events are likely to un-create it and put the uninitiated in a state of doubt, as it was in the much reported planned trip of President Goodluck Jonathan to Chibok.  When it was first announced, and […]

Lagos State Government has disclosed that for the state to enjoy stable electricity, it must have up to 5,000 megawatts and nothing less. The state’s Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, Taofeek Tijani, made the disclosure on Tuesday at the 2014 Ministerial Press Briefing held in Ikeja, the state capital. The commissioner, said the state […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has on Tuesday, announced that its National Convention will hold in Abuja for 13th and 14th of June 2014. The party seized the opportunity to express its views and concerns about what it described as the Federal Government’s insincerity in the fight against the Boko Haram insurgency and the search […]

Police in Lagos on Tuesday intercepted a strange group of usurpers posing as traffic officials on Lagos roads. Dressed in grey and black uniforms, the group, numbering about 35 invaded Lagos roads like Ojota, Toll Gate and Ikorodu Road at about 7am, causing confusion on the roads in their attempt to take over the job […]

…Transfer Suit to National Industrial Court A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday, declined jurisdiction to entertained the suit challenging the suspension of  Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi by President Goodluck Jonathan. Presiding judge, Justice Gabriel Kolawole transferred the suit to the National Industrial Court for […]

          Barely 48 hours after the Kano explosion, which claimed four lives, three bombs were on Tuesday detonated, few minutes apart,  in Jos, killing 118 people. The first explosion occurred at the Jos Terminus Market, the main food and clothes market in the city, at about 3:10pm after an Improvised Explosive […]

Traditional hunters in the north-eastern states of Nigeria have gathered and taken it upon themselves to take the offence to Boko Haram with the goal of bringing back the abducted Chibok girls. On Sunday, over 500 hunters armed with Dane guns, poisoned spears and amulets assembled in Borno State convinced that they are armed enough […]

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos on Monday took a swipe at the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) for demanding for a Christian as the next governor of the state. Fashola’s tenure ends on 29th May 2015 and some aspirants are already throwing up themselves to contest the election. The PFN had expressed its demand through […]

President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered that a careful investigation be carried out on the Sunday night bomb blast in Sabon Gari, Kano State. The president’s direction was made known on Monday by his spokesman, Dr. Reuben Abati. Abati disclosed on his twitter account that Jonathan has issued a direction for all the security chiefs to act […]