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A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday ordered Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, to reinstate the withdrawn security aides to Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal. The judgement is coming days after Tambuwal and the lawmakers from the All Progressives Congress (APC) instituted a court case against the Nigerian […]

lorin, Kwara State received a mammoth crowd on Wednesday when the incumbent Governor of the state on the platform of the  All Progressives Congress (APC),  Abdulfatah Ahmed declared his intention to run for a second term in office. In their thousands, APC supporters including the newest convert,the Honorable Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu […]

As the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) commences the issuance of Permanent Voter Cards to registered voters in some South-western states of Nigeria, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos on Wednesday raised alarm over information that 1,447,845 names of such registered voters in his state were missing from the voters’ register. Fashola, in a broadcast, wondered […]

Nigeria’s President, Goodluck Jonathan will travel to Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso on Wednesday as a member of the three-man delegation of Heads of State and Government raised by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to facilitate the rapid resolution of the current political crisis in the country, the presidency has announced. […]

The supremacy battle between Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State and his predecessor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, over who makes appointments into the Local Government Areas and the Local Council Development Areas was on Tuesday laid to rest when the latter bowed to pressure from the Governor’s Advisory Council, a decision making body consisting of Tinubu, […]

A group loyal to Atiku Abubakar, the former vice president of Nigeria, the Turaki Vanguard has spoken out against a disparaging statement credited to the Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, saying such a statementis tantamount to maligning the former vice president. The group said on Tuesday, in a statement signed […]

Acting Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Enugu State chapter, Elder David Aja has appealed to the party’s national chairman, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu to call the state Governor Sullivan Chime to order. The appeal was contained in a petition writing by Aja to Mu’azu, urging the national chairman to use his office to prevent Chime […]Read More

Mubi, the second largest town in Adamawa State has now been renamed Madinatul Islam by the Boko Haram Islamic sect which captured the town last week after a bloody attack that caused many of the residents in the state to flee. It was also learnt that the sect had since after making the town its […]

Suleiman Abba, the acting inspector-General of Police, was Tuesday confirmed by the Council of State to take the full robe of the Nigerian Inspector-General of Police. His elevation is coming amid controversy trailing his withdrawal of security aides of the Speaker of the country’s House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, after the latter defected from the […]

An Abuja Federal High Court has ruled that nothing has changed in the leadership of the House of Representatives, emphasising especially that Aminu Tambuwal remains the Speaker. Issuing the ruling on Monday, the court also said that Tambuwal could not be removed and that the House could not reconvene until the date it was adjourned […]

Some 124 prisoners have been freed by gunmen armed with grenades and heavy fire arms from the Nigeria Federal Prison, Koton-Karfe, Kogi State. According to eyewitnesses and residents of the environment, activities leading to the break began around 10 pm on Sunday, with gunshots and sounds of grenades taking over the air. “The security operatives […]

Scores of people have been killed in a suicide bombing act in Potiskum the Yobe State capital on Monday. According to eye witnesses the explosion occurred while the Shia Muslim brotherhood was on a procession to observe the 10th Day of Muharram 1436 celebration. According to witnesses and the state’s Commissioner of Police, Mr Markus […]