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The ongoing crisis in the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has proceeded to another level, following the decision of the faction of the party led by Alhaji Abubakar Baraje to see to the imprisonment of National Chairman Bamanga Tukur for contempt of court. Condemning Wednesday’s press conference during which Tukur threatened to […]

The crisis rocking the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Anambra State has taken another dimension, as the merging partners, the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), have severed ties with the mega-opposition party. The merger would have been an advantage for Senator Chris Ngige, the APC candidate in the […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned what it called the daylight vote robbery by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the election rerun at the Offa Local Government Area of Kwara State last Saturday. The APC said the ‘robbery’ shows that the PDP, whether old or new, is irredeemable. Rising from its National Executive […]

Reporters Without Borders is very disturbed by journalist Tukur Mamu’s arrest yesterday at his office in the northern city of Kaduna by plain-clothes police, who initially took him to the city’s Criminal Investigation Department (CDI) headquarters. Mamu, who publishes the Kaduna-based weekly, Desert Herald, was then reportedly taken to the federal capital, Abuja, where he […]

The hope of an amicable resolution of the PDP crisis may have been foreclosed, Wednesday, as the 7 Governors, 22 senators and 57 members of the Federal House of Representatives who have expressed support for the breakaway faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will have their offices declared vacant, National Chairman of the party, […]

The Nigerian Army has announced the retirement senior officers who have served the mandatory 35 years or who are due by virtue of their age on rank. According to the Army, the retirement is in line with the terms and conditions of service of the Armed Forces, and the affected officers have been told to […]

Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih on Tuesday admitted that leading figures of the party who broke away on Saturday have valid reasons to have taken the action. However, in a statement released in Abuja on Tuesday, Anenih expressed hope that the rebels would return to the […]

The fact-finding committee of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on the health condition of Governor of Taraba State, Danbaba Suntai has affirmed that Alhaji Garba Umar should continue as Acting Governor of the state, as the governor would need more time to fully recuperate from injuries sustained in last year’s crash.  However, the committee noted […]

The State Security Service (SSS) on Tuesday transferred Daniel Ohikhena, the 13-year-old boy who hid in the tyre compartment of an Arik airplane to fly to Lagos from Benin, to officials of the Edo State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development. Daniel’s mother, Evelyn was at the office of the SSS to witness the […]

The new PDP, led by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar,Monday, received a boost, as one- fourth of the members of the Nigerian upper legislative arm, the Senate, has lined up behind them. In a press statement sent to www.www.aso.rocks search engine, 22 out of the 109 Senators lauded the action of the breakaway leaders, saying, […]

The breakaway faction of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chaired by Alhaji Abdullahi Kawu Baraje has filed a case before Justice Safari of the High Court of Lagos State, Ikeja Division, seeking to restrain Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, Prince Uche Secondus, Mrs. Kema Chikwe, Olisah Metuh and others from parading themselves as members of the National […]

Banks have been rejecting transactions of the Taraba State government initiated by Deputy Governor of the state, Garba Umar since the return of Governor Danbaba Suntai last Sunday, it has been revealed. Umar had urged the banks to honour the government’s financial transactions if they are in tandem with provisions of the law, that is, containing […]