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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday pitched against the presidency over the arrest of Senate Minority Leader and former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Dr. Godswill Akpabio. Akpabio’s travail with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, followed series of petition by a lawyer from the state, alleging that the senator engaged […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State, has raised the alarm over the transfer of the State Commissioner of Police saying it was part of a plot to rig the December 5 governorship election in the state. A statement issued on Sunday in Yenagoa by the PDP chairman, Chief Serena Dokubo-Spiff, said the sudden removal of the […]

Barely 18 hours after former governor of Akwa Ibom State and current Minority Leader of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, was released by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the anti-graft agency has again detained him. Akpabio is facing allegations of corrupt enrichment as governor. He was grilled for hours on Friday after which he […]

Three students of the Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja, who were kidnapped during a Christian fellowship programme on Wednesday have been rescued by men of the Nigerian Police Force, according to the Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Emmanuel Ojukwu. Ojukwu, who spoke in Lokoja on Friday while parading 24 suspects, said the students, Ayodele […]

A total of 39 persons were recorded dead in five suicide bomb explosions that rocked Maiduguri, the Borno State capital just between Thursday and Friday, according to statistics gathered by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and released on Friday. NEMA said the incidents also resulted in 49 residents sustaining various degrees of injury. But […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday arrested ex-Governor Godswill Akpabio for allegedly misappropriating N101.8billion while he was governor of Akwa-Ibom State and plunging the state into huge indebtedness. Akpabio was taken into custody for interrogation by EFCC operatives at about 5.20 pm. He was accompanied by a few of his aides and […]

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to prosecute the Yobe State Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Abu Zarma, who was alleged to have received N15 million bribe to influence the Yobe State Governorship election. The governor said it is only when that is done, that the […]

The Rivers State chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has faulted a fresh statement being circulated in the media, allegedly by Mr. Livingstone Wechie, purporting that a court order restraining theSenate from Screening the former State Governor, Rt. Rotimi Amaechi, has been obtained. In a statement issued Thursday by the State’s APC Publicity […]

The Nigerian Senate has postponed the screening of ministerial nominees till early next week. The postponement was announced via the National Assembly’s twitter handle on Thursday. “There will be no ministerial screening today,” the assembly twitted. “We will continue on Tuesday.” At the end of the second day of the screening and confirmation at the […]

Not many Nigerians were excited by the list of ministerial nominees submitted by President Buhari, especially the first batch. Given the time it took the President  to unveil the nominees  – over four months after his inauguration –  people were expecting to be surprised,  if not wowed, with the list of ‘saints’ the President gave […]

The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday continued with the screening of more nominees for President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet with former governors Babatunde Fashola of Lagos, Chris Ngige, a former Senator and Mr. Ibe Kachukwu, who currently heads the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) answering questions from the senators. BABATUNDE FASHOLA Fashola, who was the first to […]

The Nigerian Senate has formally confirmed all the ministerial nominees screened on Tuesday and Wednesday. The nominees were confirmed after voice votes were cast on each of the nominees after the screening. However, the screening of the former governor of the former governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi and others was postponed to Thursday. The […]