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The Senate will resume conversations on the still-unread letter of the 11 lawmakers who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) next week Tuesday, after mandating its presiding officer, David Mark on Wednesday to seek legal advice on the matter. The resolution was made after a closed-door session of the […]

As widely expected, erstwhile Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on Wednesday actualised his much-publicised defection to the All progressives Congress (APC) by registering his membership in Jada, Adamawa State. On hand to conduct the membership registration were the Ganye Zonal and Interim Chairman of APC in Adamawa State. The former vice president arrived at the […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) are in a war of words over their alleged roles in the violence that accompanied the registration exercise of APC on Tuesday. Rivers State chapter of APC accused the Grassroots Development Initiative (GDI) of working as the political machinery of Supervising Minister for Education, […]

An Abuja High Court on Wednesday ordered the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) and All Purpose Shelters Limited to stop the allocation of all the shops within Wuye Ultra Modern Market, Abuja pending the hearing and determination of substantive suit. The market, according to the Court Order Suit N: CV/440/2012 and motion No: M/864/14, is to […]Read More

The leadership of the Federal House of Representatives on Tuesday adjourned legislative session in order to enable members of the All Progressive Congress (APC) participate in the party’s registration exercise. Aminu Tambuwal, speaker of the House of Representatives pronounced this after the debate on the 2014 budget proposal was stalled. All the executive bills, including the […]

A sum of N108m has been dedicated to 12 pilot states for the grassroots micro-credit scheme of the National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP), tThe Federal Government said on Tuesday. According to Senior Special Assistant to the President on Poverty Eradication and National Co-ordinator of NAPEP, Mallam Mukhtar Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, the project signals the dawn […]

Erstwhile Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar who defected to the All Progressive Congress (APC) two days ago from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has embarked on a political voyage at the end of which he would return begging to the PDP. Making this assertion while declaring open a Strategic Consultative Workshop for Women in Media […]

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo; former Head of State, General Muhammad Buhari; and Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi were the most notable absentees at Tuesday’s meeting the Council of State, which held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. In contrast, erstwhile Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida; former President, Shehu Shagari; former Heads of State, Yakubu […]

Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, Gambo Sallau has resigned from the coveted position, saying he is unwilling to join the All Progressives Congress (APC) with the majority of his colleagues. The former speaker took the decision following the defection of 27 members of the House yesterday. In order to avoid impeachment since […]

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC on Tuesday dismissed an allegation by the Governor of the Central Bank, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi that it had not remitted $20 billion to the Federation account, saying that this is not the first time the CBN Governor had made wild allegations about the NNPC and has come to […]

An early-morning tragedy in the Ajah area of Lagos State on Tuesday resulted in the death of a man identified as Mr. Sunday Megba and his daughter, Lola, while his wife, Sade, was seriously injured. The car, an SUV with registration number Lagos DN 866 JJJ, in which they were returning from church plunged from the Ikota Bridge into […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as reckless, irresponsible and totally condemnable the threat by controversial leader of the Niger-Delta Peoples volunteer Force, Mujaheed Asari-Dokubo to levy war against Nigeria even if President Goodluck Jonathan is defeated even in a free and fair election in 2015. In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by its […]