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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as the height of insensitivity, the decision of First Lady Patience Jonathan to receive an Honorary Doctorate award in far away South Korea when the country’s public universities have remained shut for many months under the watch of her husband. In a statement issued in Lagos on Wednesday […]

The Bayelsa State Police Command has confirmed the kidnap of Mrs. Augusta Douglas-Ayam, the elder sister of Mr. Oronto Douglas, Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Research, Documentation and Strategy. Mrs. Douglas-Ayam was reportedly kidnapped at about 8pm on Monday  in Ogbia, Bayelsa state, by unknown gunmen. The Commissioner of Police, Hilary Opara, who […]

Professor Ben Nwabueze has refuted reports suggesting that he resigned his membership National Conference Advisory Committee because he did not trust President Goodluck Jonathan and failure to appoint him as the  chairman of the committee. The Elder statesman said he quit the committee for health reasons. Hear him: “I cut short my stay in London for medicals […]

The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has said that it will perform a joint audit of domestic airlines to determine their technical and financial state of health. According to Director-General of NCAA, Captain Fola Akinkuotu who was speaking on Monday during a briefing at the Aviation House, Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, the audit is […]

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) complement ongoing efforts of the Federal Government to put an end to the exportation of stolen crude oil from Nigeria, President Goodluck Jonathan said on Monday. Speaking at an audience with Chairperson of EITI, Ms. Clare Short, Jonathan implored EITI to collaborate with the Federal Government in working to […]

The family of, Gabriel Soriwei, a Nigerian student who was killed in Cyprus last month, has urged President Goodluck Jonathan, the Federal Government and other well-meaning individuals to support its demand for justice and the unravelling of the circumstances surrounding the death of the Nigerian. Twenty-year-old Gabriel, a first-year student of Electrical/Electronic/Engineering at the Cyprus […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday denied zoning any political office in the 2015 general elections, as being speculated by some media houses in the country. There were stories that the party had zoned its vice presidential slot to the South-West instead of the South-East and that the National Leader of the party had started […]

The breakaway faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chaired by Alhaji Abdullahi Baraje on Sunday described the constitution of a disciplinary committee by the faction of PDP led by Alhaji Bamanga Tukur as a mere attempt to witch-hunt the progressive members of the ‘new’ PDP and a further proof of the lack of desire […]

The number of people living in extreme poverty around the world has sharply declined over the past three decades, but in 2010 it still included roughly 400 million children, or one-third of those living in such abysmal conditions, according to a new World Bank analysis released today, which for the first time gives an in-depth […]

But for providence, another air disaster would have happened in Kaduna on Sunday evening when an aircraft belonging to IRS Airline had difficulties landing due to some technical issues. The plane, flight 3390, which was arriving in Kaduna from Lagos, got stuck with its 89 passengers, after it forcefully landed on the runway in what […]

Though the bye-election into the Delta Central Senatorial seat is yet to be concluded, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of using security agents to intimidate voters while preventing voting materials from reaching polling units in opposition strongholds during Saturday’s bye-election in Delta Central Senatorial district. In a statement […]

Revelations emerged on Friday that the crashed aircraft belonging to Associated Airlines actually gave signals that all was not well but the signals were ignored by the pilot. An examination conducted on the Cockpit Voice Data Recorder by the Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) inside its Abuja laboratory revealed that the computer in the plane gave a warning […]