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With the 2015 presidential elections now concluded and the country preparing for the inauguration of a new administration on 29th May, President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered that his campaign billboards and posters should be removed and properly disposed. The out-going president gave the order on Thursday. According to a press release to that effect issued […]

The Executive Arm of the Federal Government on Wednesday went to the Supreme Court asking the court to declare as a null the ‎passage of the proposed amendment of the constitution by the National Assembly. The Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Mohammed Adoke, instituted the fresh suit with SC/214/2015 on behalf of the executive arm […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday finally closed the window for defectors from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), announcing that defectors from the party are no longer welcome. The party also admonished the PDP to get conscious of its reality as the new opposition party in the country and better stop lamenting. In a […]

President Goodluck Jonathan is now to hand over the baton of leadership to General Muhammadu Buhari on 29th May instead of 28th May as earlier announced. There had been criticisms over the earlier date as many Nigerians, including Femi Falana, a Lagos-based lawyer, had earlier argued that handing over on May would create a vacuum. […]

The Ondo State House of Assembly on Tuesday commenced the impeachment process of the State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Ali Olanusi, who, in the heat of the general election, defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Olanusi has been served an impeachment notice. The impeachment notice was signed by 20 […]

Markus Ishaya, one of the campaign coordinators for the Kaduna State governor-elect, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, has been killed in Kaduna. According to El-Rufai’s spokesperson, Samuel Aruwan, Ishaya was killed by some gunmen who went to his village, Atuku Kasa, in Jema’a Local Government Area of the state. Ishaya, El-Rufai’s coordinator in Atuku Ward, was shot […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged Nigerians to disregard the wild speculation concerning the appointment of ministers and the zoning of offices under the incoming administration of General Muhammadu Buhari. In a statement issued in Abuja on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said there is no truth to […]

Prominent Nigerian Senator, representing Abia North Senatorial District, Uche Chukwumerije, is dead. Chukwumerije died Sunday evening at 75 after a battle with lung cancer, a statement by his family revealed. “On the evening of Sunday, the 19th of April, 2015, surrounded by his family, Comrade Uche Chukwumerije passed into the open arms of history, and […]

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has raided the Hajj Camp terminal at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, confiscating and and destroying goods worth several thousands of Naira. Chief Security Officer of the terminal, Uche Ukeni, disclosed after the raid that the operation led to the arrest of a female suspect. The suspect would be […]

Signs are emerging that the All Progressives Congress (APC) are not  comfortable with the 28th May handover date proposed by the out-going administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. Insider reports said the proposed date, as announced by Minister of Information, Senator Patricia Akwashiki, is regarded by the APC as a plot laced with ill motives. Akwashiki […]

Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State on Friday disclosed that the refusal of President Goodluck Jonathan to honour the single-term pact he reached with the party prior to 2011 was the reason for the wholesome defeat experienced by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2015 general election. Aliyu, who only fell short of mentioning […]

In what looks like a mockery of the office of Chief Olisa Metuh, the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Friday offered the PDP spokesman a free six-week crash course on his new role as the opposition spokesman. APC made this offer while denying any connection […]