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  • Presidency Not postponing Meeting with nPDP

    The meeting between President Goodluck Jonathan’s camp and the breakaway governors of the ‘new’ Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will still hold on Monday, despite reports of the breakaway faction seeking a postponement due to the lesser Hajj. Despite National Chairman of the new PDP, Alhaji Kawu Baraje and his camp issuing a press statement seeking […]
  • Air Crash: NCAA Suspends Associated Airlines

    Following Thursday’s crash of its chattered airline, the operation license of the Associated Aviation Limited has been suspended by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA). The license was suspended on Saturday as aviation authorities began investigations into the incident that killed at least 14 of the 20 people who were conveying the corpse of the […]
  • Apprehension in Cross River, as Imoke Plans Cabinet Reshuffle

    Fear has gripped members of the Cross Rivers State cabinet as well as their dependants and loyalists as Governor of the state; Liyel Imoke plans a major reshuffle of the cabinet any moment from now. The fear is based on the fact that none of the cabinet members knows who would be dropped or retained […]
  • Kaduna Peace Rally Turns Bloody

    A peace rally organised in Kaduna today aimed at uniting the warring factions within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and to fashion out support for the ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan has ended with many of the participants sustaining injuries. The rally, held at the Murtala Muhammed Square in central Kaduna, was immediately called off […]
  • Finally, Jonathan Appoints Bukar as Abuja CJ

    President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GCFR) has appointed Hon. Justice Ibrahim M. Bukar as Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on the recommendation of the National Judicial Council (NJC) chaired by Hon. Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar (GCON). The appointment is sequel to confirmation by the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Bukar has […]
  • Pictorial: Plane Carrying Agagu`s Remains Crashes

    The casket conveying the body of late former Governor of Ondo State, Chief Olusegun Agagu in the Associated Airlines chattered plane that crashed earlier in the morning has been recovered in one piece. However, a son and daughter of the late former governor died in the crash. It is yet unconfirmed if another son, who […]
  • Plane Conveying Agagu’s Corpse Crashes…Kills 22 Occupants

    An Associated Airline aircraft conveying the corpse of Dr. Segun Agagu, former governor of Ondo State from Lagos to Akure, crashed thursday morning, at the local wing of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport killing all 22 occupants. Some of the occupants, www.www.aso.rocks search engine has gathered, include Agagu’s son, Chief Olu Falae’s first Son, Deji […]Read More
  • Amnesty: FG Withdraws Sponsorship of Six Students in Russia

     Six out of the 24 former Niger Delta militants studying at the Peoples University, Russia, have been withdrawn after they were fingered for masterminding last week’s protest at the Nigerian Embassy in Moscow, which culminated in the arrest of 16 Nigerian students by the Russian authorities. The students staged the protest at the embassy to […]
  • nPDP Seeks Deferment of Reconciliation Meeting

    Leading figures of the breakaway faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have contacted President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan about postponing the reconciliation meeting scheduled for next week Monday postponed. At a caucus meeting last night at the Adamawa State Government Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja, it was discovered that the date of the proposed peace meeting clashes […]
  • Senate Lauds Jonathan`s SNC Advisory Committee

    Yesterday’s announcement by President Goodluck Jonathan of a committee to devise modalities for the convocation of a National Conference is a welcome development. Issuing a statement on behalf of the upper chamber, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Information, Media and Public Affairs, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, praised the president for conceptualising a national conference that […]
  • NNPC Refutes Allegation of Oil Revenue Shortfall

    Chairman of the Federal House of Representatives Committee on Finance, Abdulmumi Jibrin was wrong on his claim that the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) did not remit N320.654bn to the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee, the Corporation has said. “We refer to a statement credited to Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Finance, alleging that the […]
  • Doctors Begin Nationwide Strike

    Members of the National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (NARD) all over the country have been directed to commence an indefinite strike beginning from today, the occasion of Nigeria’s 53rd Independence Anniversary. According to NARD, the decision to totally withdraw the services of its members from 8am on Tuesday is in protest of Federal Government’s failure […]