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Former military leader, Ibrahim Babangida, on Wednesday released a strongly worded statement hitting at those campaigning for President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election for sponsoring what he called a campaigns of calumny against former military Heads of State and presidents who had served the country. Babangida’s anger resulted from a documentary aired on Silverbird Television on Tuesday […]

The Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, has ordered the restriction on vehicular movements on Saturday 28th March, 2015 and 11th April, 2015, being the days slated for the elections in Nigeria. The presidential election holds on Saturday while the governorship election would hold on 11th April. The restriction on vehicular movement on the two days […]

Osun monarchs have called on President  Goodluck Jonathan to spread the dollar rain he has been orchestrating to every corner of the state to avoid bad blood among the citizens and the royals. Jonathan had allegedly been generous with hard currency with some monarchs when he visited the state recently. This led the Obas to […]

… For exploiting ill health of late former CEO to fleece agency. The Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, Ima Niboro may have opened a discreet investigation of key officers of the agency who took advantage of the ill health of the immediate past CEO, Dame Oluremi Oyo to pillage the assets […]

President of the U.S, Barack Obama has urged Nigerians to shun violence and make their votes counts peacefully during the forthcoming general elections. Obama delivered the message to Nigerians in a video released on Monday. He reminded Nigerians of the progress they have made in gaining independence from their colonial masters and encouraged them to […]

As expected, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari, was absent at the presidential debate organised by the National Elections Debate Group (NEDG) on Sunday. He and his party had earlier vowed not to partake in the debate claiming that some members of the debate group were partisan and could have […]

The Deputy Governor of Rivers State, Tele Ikuru, on Sunday announced he has defected to the Peoples Democratic Party from the All Progressives Congress (APC) where he had gone with the Governor of the State, Rotimi Amaechi. Ikuru, who had been Amaechi’s deputy since 2007, had left the PDP with the governor, a majority of […]

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. ‘Previous contracts didn’t halt oil theft’ “Most of the security agencies that are saddled with the responsibility to protect the pipelines have failed,” Otunba Gani Adams, the national coordinator of the Odua People’s Congress […]

Three suspected thugs were arrested with a gun and axe by men of the Vigilante Group in Ado Ekiti . Arrested with them are three other ladies, according to the vigilante group. One of the suspected thugs was identified as Soji Onigbinde. The suspected thugs, who were riding in an APC branded bus were arrested […]

Hajia Aishat Buhari, the wife of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday told Dame Patience Jonathan, the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, not to be scared that her husband would go to jail if Buhari is eventually elected as President of Nigeria on 28th March. Aishat’s comment […]

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, expressed gratitude to all observers accredited in the forthcoming general elections, describing them as partners in progress with the country. Jega gave the commendation making a speech at the briefing of accredited observers for the elections on Thursday. He described the work of the […]

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released results of candidates who sat for the Computer Based Test (CBT) 2015 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations. Registrar of JAMB Prof. Dibu Ojerinde said on Thursday that about 895, 000 results were released. He stated the figure during the inspection of proceedings of exams at designated centres […]