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Former Nigeria President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo says he is still a card-carrying member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), despite his recent frolics with the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC). Speaking in Port Harcourt on Tuesday after commissioning a total of 16 projects on the invitation of Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, Obasanjo commended […]

Former National Security Adviser, General Mohammed Aliyu Gusau; erstwhile Nigerian High Commissioner to Ghana, Musiliu Obanikoro; and former Governor of Adamawa State, Mr Boni Haruna as well as eight others have been confirmed as ministers. However, the confirmation of Alhaji Abduljelili Oyewale Adesiyan divided the Senate. The signs had been ominous since last week, when […]

The leadership of the House of Representatives on Tuesday expressed concern over the misapplication of the N300 billion power and airline intervention fund by the Federal Government. Speaker Aminu Tambuwal, who expressed dismay about the rationale behind the dwindling of the fund to N100 billion, directed the relevant committees to investigate the disbursement of the fund. Tambuwal gave […]

President Goodluck Jonathan has lamented the death of former Minister of State for Works during the tenure of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s, Senator Isaiah Balat. Balat, who was also Special Adviser on Special Duties to Vice President Namadi Sambo died at the National Hospital Abuja today, aged 62. “President Goodluck Jonathan received with great shock and […]

Angry students of the Lagos State University on Tuesday rained expletives on the leadership of the Lagos State House of Assembly as well as other lawmakers of the House, during their protest against hike in the institution’s fees. The students, who marched across some parts of Lagos before settling at the House, first refused to listen to […]

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday appointed Brigadier-General Jones Oladehinde Arogbofa as his new Chief Of Staff. According to Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, the appointment takes immediate effect. A retired officer of the Signals Corps of the Nigerian Army, Brig-Gen. Arogbofa, who was born on 10th November 1952, takes the […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced the engagement of prominent international political consultants, AKPD Message and Media to boost its electoral chances in the upcoming elections. In a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the Chicago, U.S.-based firm is best known for its lead […]

Governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima has lamented that members of the Boko Haram Islamist sect are better armed and motivated by their sponsors than Nigerian security men. Speaking with State House Correspondents at the end of a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan on the latest set of Boko Haram attacks on the north-eastern zone […]

Vice Chancellors of government-owned universities in the country have been presented with letters of allocation for the N200bn intervention fund of the Federal Government. During the presentation at a meeting with vice chancellors of the universities in Abuja, Supervising Minister of Education, Chief Nyesom Wike advised the institutions to make maximum use of the funds […]

United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Ms Linda Thomas-Greenfield on Monday implored the Nigerian Government to establish an electoral offences tribunal ahead of the 2015 general elections. Speaking in Abuja during the opening of the Nigeria-U.S. Bi-National Commission (BNC) working group’s meeting on good governance, transparency and integrity, Thomas-Greenfield explained that the tribunal […]

The Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo to take advantage of his visit to the state to throw more light on the huge fraudulent financial charges he said were hanging around Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi while he was Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly. Recalling […]

Nigerian’s socioeconomic woes would have been worse without the relentless prayers of Christians, President Goodluck Jonathan has said. Speaking in Lagos on Sunday at the Redeemed Christian Church of God Olive Parish, where he worshipped, Jonathan thanked Christians and other religious groups for their prayers for the country, at a period when the world is […]