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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared Nigeria Ebola-free.The declaration was made on Monday by WHO in Berlin,Germany and  announced by  representative Rui Gama Vaz, while speaking in the country’s capital Abuja. In his speech Vaz described the feat achieved by the country as a “spectacular success story”. According to WHO recommendations,” the end of […]Read More

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Monday ordered a Lagos-based businessman, Jimoh Ibrahim, to stop publishing the Newswatch newspapers henceforth. The court said Ibrahim had not been able to prove ownership of the media business venture allegedly sold to him by the founding fathers of the magazine. Justice Ibrahim Buba nullified the Share […]

Nigeria has been officially declared free of Ebola virus, this announcement was made in Berlin, Germany on Monday by the WHO. Nigeria is the second African country to be declared free of the virus. Last week, Senegal was declared free  of Ebola. More to come!!!

A big shadow of doubt is now cast on the Friday announcement of ceasefire between the Islamic extremist group, Boko Haram and the Nigerian military with the latest killings in the north-eastern part of Nigeria. There have been at least five attacks since the cease fire was declared and more than a dozen people have […]

There seems to be an ongoing battle between Lagos State Government and the Federal Government of Nigeria over the ownership of the popular Tafawa Balewa Square, where the Nigeria’s Independence celebration took place on 1st October 1960. It was learnt that the Federal Government may have sold the place to private investors, but Lagos State […]

More than 24 hours after Nigerian officials claimed to have reached a deal with Boko Haram militants to free more than 200 schoolgirls, relatives of the teenagers were still anxiously waiting for news about their return. Senior government and military officials on Friday said they had struck a ceasefire agreement with the Islamists ravaging the […]

Ayo Fayose, the winner of the Ekiti State governorship election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was on Thursday sworn into office in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital just as he raised alarm that he inherited a debt of N57 billion from the out-gone government of Dr. Kayode Fayemi. Fayose, who took out […]

It was a mammoth crowd that witnessed the declaration on Wednesday by a leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari, for the presidential election in 2015 as the former army general said he has what it takes to tackle insecurity and corruption, the two main problems that have taken over the entire nation. […]

Ahead of the 2015 general elections, seven ministers in the cabinet of President Goodluck Jonathan have resigned their appointments. www.www.aso.rocks search engine  gathered that those who threw in the towel on Wednesday includes the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu; the Minister of State for Niger Delta, Dairus Ishak, the Minister of Labour and Productivity, […]

The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has passed a vote of no confidence on all governors of the northern states of the federation, saying the loss of confidence is because they have become “sell-outs”. The Forum accused the governors of betraying their zone with an alleged agreement with President Goodluck Jonathan to seek re-election instead of […]

 Mohammed Sambo Dasuki,Nigeria’s National Security Adviser on Monday at the ECOSOC Chamber, United Nations Headquarters, New York, unveiled  Nigeria’s new approach to countering and dismantling violent extremism in Nigeria. The Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) program, according to Dasuki, is aimed at identifying the underlying causes of radicalization (Social, Cultural, Religious, and Economic) and to develop […]Read More

The Presidential bid of a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, gathered momentum in Lagos Sunday as he paid a visit to the state Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, to deliver a special invitation to the formal declaration of his intention to contest the nation’s 2015 presidential election. Gen. Buhari, who arrived […]