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Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Samuel Adesina is dead. He died on Tuesday at the St Nicholas Hospital, Lagos, after a protracted but undisclosed illness. He was aged 56. A member of the Labour Party (LP), the speaker, who represented Odigbo State Constituency 2, was said to have been sick for about […]

The Dangote Cement has slashed cement price in an ongoing promo at the Kaduna 35th International Trade Fair. Customers will have the opportunity of buying the discounted product at the company’s pavilion, Cement Regional Sales Manager Obasola Alo said. The new promo liberalises the extant policy where customers who intend to buy directly at factory […]

Thirty-nine students of the Federal Government College Buni Yadi, Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State have been murdered by gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram Islamist sect. A resident in the area said he counted 39 lifeless bodies after the attack, which lasted about four hours and ended at about 4am […]

Last Friday, Governor Fashola issued a number of directives on the Lagos State University (LASU). The directives reportedly based on the report of the adhoc Committee of the House granted approval for the reopening of the University on Monday 24 February for final year students alone and the release of N51million for the repair of […]

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State on Monday declared that the state would participate in the coming National Conference. Though the All Progressives Congress (APC) under which he gained political authority has said it would not participate in the conference, Fashola said governors in the South-West agreed that willing states should send their delegates. Fashola […]

President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday evening finally opened up on the reasons for the suspension of Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, insisting that it was not borne out of politics or personal issues with the suspended governor as being peddled.  He said, instead, that it was borne out of his administration’s belief […]

President Goodluck Jonathan has congratulated former President Shehu Shagari on the occasion of his 89th birthday on Tuesday. According to Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati, the president personally wrote a congratulatory message to Shagari, praising his continued dedication to the unity and wellbeing of the country. “On behalf of […]

More than 40 members of the Boko Haram Islamist sect have been convicted for terrorism-related crimes, Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke has said. Speaking at the opening of an International seminar on ‘Observance of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in Internal Security Operations in Abuja’, Adoke said […]

A first cousin of President Goodluck Jonathan, Chief Inengite Nitabai has been kidnapped by gunmen numbering about 10, who broke his house in Otuoke, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. According to Akinobeh Jin, sister of the abductee’s wife, the armed men laid siege on the sprawling compound located just before Otuoke Bridge, off […]

United States Secretary of States, Mr. John Kerry has condemned Saturday’s attack on Izge Village in Borno by men of the Boko Haram Islamist sect. Kerry lamented that the people of northern do not deserve the sporadic violence and terrorism, and restated the commitment of the United States to providing counter-terrorism assistance to Nigeria, “Unspeakable violence and […]

The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) on Monday urged students of the Lagos State University (LASU) to patiently continued the struggle towards resumption of all students of the university (and not just a few), as well as the reversal of the institution’s hiked school fees. It observed that having seen the progress recorded with its most […]

Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal has denied reports of his positive disposition to defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Speaking after a closed-door meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo at his Hilltop Mansion in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State, Tambuwal restated his loyalty to the ruling party and […]