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Last Updated on 13 May 2015 Hits: 22 An emergency meeting of the Ekiti State Security Council took place on Monday with a view to arresting the rising spate of kidnapping and other criminal activities in the state following the killing of two and abduction of five people in the last one week. Briefing the […]

Last Updated on 13 May 2015 Hits: 139 Governor-elect of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, on Tuesday paid a visit to the dilapidated Arewa Textile Industry in the state stressing that the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, would ask all those who have looted the country to refund their loots. El-Rufai targets a revival of the industry […]

Last Updated on 13 May 2015 Hits: 36 The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned five suspects including Uchenna Nwako, Ejikeme Oluchukwu, Nnamani Ikechukwu, Ibeh kodili Martins and Nwako Victoria Ifeoma before Justice D.V Agishir of the Federal High Court, Enugu, on a 16-count charge of intent to defraud and obtaining N26,338,000 by […]

Last Updated on 13 May 2015 Hits: 42 Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly may have commenced moves to work against any attempt to foist a former Local Government Council chairman, Wasiu Eshilokun-Sanni, on them as the House commences its new session in June this year. Currently, some of these lawmakers have been […]

Last Updated on 12 May 2015 Hits: 30 The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, was Monday appointed the Chancellor of the University of Benin by the Federal Government of Nigeria. The appointment letter was delivered to him in his palace by the Minister of Education and former governor of Kano State, Malam Ibrahim […]

Last Updated on 12 May 2015 Hits: 22 Aides to members of Rivers State House of Assembly (RSHA) on Monday took to the streets of Port Harcourt to protest non-payment of the salaries and allowances running into four months. Their protest is coming a week after staff of the Rivers State House of Assembly,  under […]

Last Updated on 12 May 2015 Hits: 51 The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said the incoming Buhari administration will not persecute anyone, contrary to statements credited to President Goodluck Jonathan. In a statement issued in Abuja on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said, however, that those who have […]

Last Updated on 11 May 2015 Hits: 619 For allowing the 2015 general elections to run freely and fairly, President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday said he only hopes he would not be divorced by his wife, Dame Patience. Jonathan made this joke while speaking at a thanksgiving and farewell service in his honour at the […]

Last Updated on 10 May 2015 Hits: 1 After President Goodluck Jonathan’s handing over on 29th May, Hajia Amina, wife of Nigeria’s Vice President, Namadi Sambo, would be returning to school to acquire more knowledge. She announced this on Saturday at an event organised by the Coalition of Nigerian Muslim Women at the National Mosque, […]

Last Updated on 10 May 2015 Hits: 0 The travails of Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State seem to be increasing by the day as a former National Auditor of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ray Nnaji, has petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), urging the anti-graft agency to commence investigation into some […]

Last Updated on 09 May 2015 Hits: 19 The Network of Police Reforms In Nigeria (NOPRIN) has demanded that the acting Inspector-General of Police immediately commence investigation into the whereabouts of a suspect who had been in the custody of the Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS, in Lagos since January. The group which on Friday […]

Last Updated on 09 May 2015 Hits: 2 The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday described as diversionary and unnecessary, Thursday’s “false and tendentious” claims by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that the presidency and the PDP are not co-operating in the transition process. The party charged the APC to put its house in order, come […]Read More