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A vehicle laden with explosives was denoted on Thursday evening ,at Zuba Park,killing 17 people and injuring many others. Zuba Park is located opposite Nyanya motor Park, where a bomb explosion orchestrated by Boko Haram, killed 74 people, penultimate week. The bomb, according to an official of the National Emergency Agency (NEMA), was detonated at […]

Former Governor of old Kwara State, Alhaji Adamu Attah, is dead. Attah, the first civilian governor of the state before it was split into Kogi and Kwara, died in his house in Abuja on Thursday at 83 after a protracted illness. He was buried in Kuroko, Okene at about 5pm according to Islamic rites witnessed […]

Secretariat of the Nigeria National Conference on Thursday refuted the news report claiming that the confab has been extended by six more weeks. Reacting to the rumor through a statement signed by AkpandemJames, the confab’s assistant secretary in charge of media and communications, the secretariat said the information is untrue, describing it as “misleading”. “The […]

Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) will be used for the Ekiti State governorship election on June 21, 2014, and the Osun State governorship election on August 9, 2014; but the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will not deploy card readers for the governorship elections. Rather, the card readers will be used along with PVCs for the […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said it is stupefied by the comments credited to National Women Leader of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kema Chikwe, where she expressed doubts about the truthfulness of the abduction of over 200 school girls from Chibok in Borno State, saying by the comments, Chikwe has simply crossed the line […]

The hearing of an application filed by Chairman of Bi-Courtney Ltd, Mr. Wale Babalakin, before a High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos seeking for the dismissal of the N4.7 billion fraud charge preferred against him and four others has been postponed to 12th May. Babalakin filed the application before Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo, who had earlier […]

In reaction to the abduction of 234 schoolgirls by Boko Haram gunmen at Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS),  Chibok, Borno State over two weeks ago,  hundreds of Nigerians gathered on Wednesday in Abuja in a protest march at the National Assembly, demanding that government and military do everything possible to rescue the girls. Many more […]

The unending spate of violent clashes between local communities in Nasarawa as well as in other states of the federation is sadly compounding the insecurity in the country. This is worrisome because despite their frequency, news about these clashes has been dwarfed by reports of the Boko Haram insurgency. It is unfortunate that a killing […]

Former aides, political associates of the immediate past governor of Bayelsa state, Chief Timipre Sylva led by his Deputy, Rt. Hon. Werinipre Seibarugu and over 1,000 decampees from other sixteen registered political parties on Wednesday made a dramatic u-turn to the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party, (PDP). The reception held at the PDP secretariat in Yenagoa […]

When President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States in May 2013 he rejected the illegal advice of some power mongers to remove the elected governors and dissolve other democratic structures in the affected states. In my reaction to the development I commended the President for not allowing the […]

The spokesman of Lagos State House of Assembly, Honorable Segun Olulade has strongly condemned the action of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) command of the Nigerian Police over its use of force to disperse lecturers protesting peacefully against the government’s neglect of Polytechnics and Colleges of Education in the country. The striking ASUP and COEASU […]

No matter the level of rascality of a Nigerian politician, he would still revere royalty and accept his traditional ruler, not only as the custodian of his own culture and norms, but also as an epitome of morality, wisdom and sound judgment.  That is why most Nigerian politicians always try to cultivate and solicit the […]