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At least 17 people were killed in an auto crash that occurred in  Bayelsa State on Saturday. Among those who lost their lives was the wife of the Secretary to the State Government Professor Edmond Allison-Oguru. Mrs Allison-Oguru and 16 other women who died in the accident were among the entourage accompanying the First Lady […]

Seven people were killed in a suicide bombing carried out by a female at a bus park in Damaturu, Yobe State on Sunday. Although no one has claimed responsibility, but the Police said the bombing was carried out in Boko Haram signature style. Commissioner of Police in the state, Marcos Danladi confirmed the story. “A […]

…Buhari may have fallen into wrong hands — Northern CAN The National Christian Elders Forum (NCEF) on Sunday dissociated itself from the purported endorsement of the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari in the forthcoming elections. NCEF said the group that endorsed Buhari is “unaccredited and unrecognised.” In a statement issued […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, on Saturday declared that the recent postponement of the country’s general elections was a grand plan by President Goodluck Jonathan to have six weeks more to attempt to sway Nigerians to himself ahead of the elections in which he is participating as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic […]

Committee for the Protection of Peoples Mandate (CPPM) — a civil society organisation with primary focus on entrenching democratic values and constitutionalism into the body polity of the Nigerian state through legitimate and lawful means — has called for the immediate dismissal of Joseph Mbu, the new AIG of zone 2 comprising Lagos and Ogun […]

An alleged attempt by Bemigho Reno Omokri, President Goodluck Jonathan’s aide on New Media, to forcefully evict a tenant in his late mother’s house, in Warri, has resulted in a robbery scandal to the tune of N25 million that was kept in a ‘Ghana-Must-Go bag’. Unfortunately, the stolen money was meant for the South South […]Read More

The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO), has frowned at the Presidency and PDP’s strident and scurrilous castigation of the use of Card Readers for ensuring the integrity of the forthcoming general elections, as being proposed by INEC, as the PDP’s agenda for the manipulation of the electoral process.  The APCPCO in a statement […]

The All Progressives Congress Campaign Organisation (APCPCO), has said that President Goodluck Jonathan, by his own admission, has ceased to play his role as the commander-in-chief of the Nigerian armed forces, on account of which he needs to urgently clarify his position under the constitution.   In a  statement signed by Malam Garba Shehu,  the campaign organisation’s […]

Just few weeks into an agreement for a joint battle to end the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria and its threat to other neighbouring African countries, Nigeria and its Niger may be heading for a major face-off that could affect their mission. The bad blood is the result of a statement from Niger’s Defence Ministry […]

Amidst rumors that  2015 general elections will not hold and that the Jonathan administration plans to hand over to an interim government on May 29, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke has said that there is no provision for any interim government in Nigeria’s constitution. Adoke made the clarification […]

  The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised the alarm over a police siege on the residence of the Director of Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation, Shehu Garba, saying the action is in line with the on-going harassment and intimidation of the party’s leadership by security agencies. In a statement issued […]

President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday evening told Nigerians that he was not consulted before the country’s electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) postponed the general elections earlier scheduled for February this year. This is against insinuations that the election postponement had some political undertone. Jonathan, who answered questions from journalists at a special […]