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Last Updated on 05 June 2015 Hits: 31 A Federal High Court in Lagos has asked the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to suspend all actions on the move to extradite the Ogun East Senator-elect, Prince Buruji Kashamu, to the United States to face trial on alleged drug-trafficking offences. The presiding judge, Justice Ibrahim […]

Last Updated on 05 June 2015 Hits: 22 The Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, has formally directed that the appellations: ‘His Excellency’ and ‘Executive’, be dropped in all official and informal communications with him. He said he would rather prefer to be addressed simply as ‘Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, Governor of Abia State’, as he has […]Read More

Last Updated on 05 June 2015 Hits: 10 A bomb explosion has left many dead and more with various degrees of injury in Jimeta-Yola, Adamawa state. The blast occurred 7:40pm Thursday night just as muslim faithfuls were leaving the Mosque and most traders were closing their businesses for the day at the Gate one area […]

Last Updated on 05 June 2015 Hits: 13 President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with the government and people of Ghana over the dual tragedy of flooding and fire outbreak which claimed scores of lives in that country. The president, in a condolence message on Friday, 5 June 2015 signed by his Senior Special Assistant on […]

Last Updated on 05 June 2015 Hits: 2 Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State on Friday inaugurated the fifth House of Assembly of the state and cleared President Muhammadu Buhari of complicity in the attempt by the immediate past lawmakers of the state on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to impeachment him. […]

Last Updated on 03 June 2015 Hits: 204 The international human rights group, Amnesty International, has said former President Goodluck Jonathan, and Nigerian security forces have the blood of as many as 8,000 Nigerian civilians on their hands, urging the international community to bring pressure to bear on President Muhammadu Buhari to launch an immediate […]

Last Updated on 03 June 2015 Hits: 13 The Regent of Akungba Akoko, a major town in Ondo State, Princess Mojisola Omosowon, was Wednesday abducted with a driver working with the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA). The regent was said to have been abducted as she was being conveyed by the driver who the […]

Last Updated on 03 June 2015 Hits: 15 President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday acknowledged the receipt of the Amnesty International report on Nigeria titled “Nigeria: Stories of horror in their own words.” The President, who is currently on a working visit to Niamey, described the report as disturbing and assured that  his administration will study […]

If Buruji Kashamu, Nigeria’s Senator-elect, thinks his travails in the hands of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) had been subdued, then he may just have been joking as the agency on Tuesday said it has issued an extradition notice to the Senator for Ogun East Senatorial District. NDLEA said the notice was from […]

Last Updated on 03 June 2015 Hits: 0 Maiduguri, the Borno State capital on Tuesday witnessed another attack by a suicide bomber, who was shouting ‘Sai Buhari’ and dancing at an abattoir. The incident led to the death of five people while many others sustained injury. Commissioner of Police in the State, Aderemi Opadokun, confirmed […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday urged the Senate for an approval to appoint 15 advisers to his cabinet which he is still constituting. Though the list of the nominees was not released, this would be his first letter to the Senate, which had earlier at the sitting for the day, congratulated Buhari and the Vice […]

President Muhammadu Buhari  today met with all the service chiefs at the Defence House, Abuja.Buhari convened the meeting to debrief the service chiefs on their counter insurgency strategies so far.The President has also announced that he will be taking a trip to Niger Republic and Chad on Wednesday for the same purpose. Among the Service […]