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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described critics of its directive to its National Assembly members to block all legislative proposals as those who are either ignorant of the workings of democracy or those who have chosen to play to the gallery for pecuniary gains. “Either way, these critics have rushed to judgement without even […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the timetable for the 2015 general elections, as well as the governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun States. In a statement released in Abuja late Friday night, INEC fixed the presidential and National Assembly elections for 14th February 2015. The statement, signed by Secretary of the Commission, Mrs. Augusta Ogakwu, […]

Armed officials of the State Security Service (SSS) on Friday stormed the Abuja residence of Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, a leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), in a bid to arrest him over his recent comments on the 2015 general elections.  El-Rufai’s had said that there would be […]

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the directive by the APC National Executive Committee that their members in the National Assembly should stall the passage of the 2014 budget and the confirmation of new service chiefs as a clear and direct call for anarchy and a vindication the ruling party’s earlier position that […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the directive by the APC National Executive Committee that their members in the National Assembly should stall the passage of the 2014 budget and the confirmation of new service chiefs as a clear and direct call for anarchy and a vindication the ruling party’s earlier position that the […]

Human rights lawyer, Festus Keyamo has written to the comptroller-general of the Nigerian prisons Services to complain of plans to kill Charles Okah by prison officials. In the letter, Keyamo alleged that prison officials are denying Okah, who is being held in Kuje prisons on allegations of masterminding the 1st October 2010 Independence Day bombing, […]

The All Progressive Congress (APC) ended a meeting of its Interim National Executive Committee on Thursday with a declaration that it had over-stretched its patience in Rivers State while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led government of President Goodluck Jonathan has turned Rivers State into a theatre of war, unleashing mayhem on loyalists of the APC. It said […]

The Ojo campus of the Lagos State University (LASU) has been shut down indefinitely by authorities of the university, following a student protest against closure of the school’s registration portal preparatory to the 2012/2013 semester examinations. The unavailability of the portal means that students who have not paid their school fees are barred from doing […]

Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State on Thursday condemned the administration of former Governor Gbenga Daniel, after the current State Commissioner for Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun told hundreds gathered at the June 12 Cultural Centre in Abeokuta, the state capital, that the former governor had bought an electrical equipment for N9bn only for the current administration to realise that […]

Ade Adefuye, the Nigerian Ambassador to the United States on Thursday disclosed that the bilateral trade between Nigeria and US rose from about $18bn in 2010 to $48 billion in 2013. Adefuye disclosed this during an interactive session with the Federal House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora headed by Abike Dabiri-Erewa. The envoy, who could not provide […]

Some of those who attended a public hearing on a bill to combat the activities of land grabbers in Lagos State at the state House of Assembly on Wednesday kicked against a provision in the proposed law that specifies a term of six months imprisonment for lawyers or other such professionals who aid land grabbers in […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday arraigned the trio of Onoshride Usen, Babangida Bello and Nurah Mohammed before Justice A. M. Liman of the Federal High Court, Benin on a two-count charge bordering on conspiracy and illegal dealing in petroleum products.  When the charges were read to the accused persons, they pleaded not guilty. […]