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Former Vice President has observed that after 54 years of independence, the ordinary Nigerians are still lamenting what independence meant to their lives because of the widening gap between the leaders and the people. Atiku made the observation in a statement issued in Abuja by his media office on Tuesday. He noted that many Nigerians […]

The General Court Martial of 60 Nigerian soldiers charged with mutiny has been postponed till Thursday, military authorities have said. The trial was earlier billed to hold on Tuesday at the Mogadishu Cantonment, Abuja. But journalists who were supposed to cover the proceedings found the venue under lock and key with no activities at all. […]

The Federal High Court sitting in Awka, Anambra State on Monday ordered the State Security Service of Nigeria to apologise to former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nasir El-Rufai, and pay him a sum of N2 million in damages for unlawful detention. This follows the events of 15th and 16th November 2013, during the […]

President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday conferred different categories of national honours on 313 persons who are believed to have distinguished themselves in their various fields of endeavour. The President also used the opportunity to direct that the designer of the country’s national flag, Pa Michael Taiwo Akinkunmi, be placed on the salary of a Special […]

Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Lagos State Chapter has appealed to the Lagos State Government to pay the withheld emoluments of doctors in its employ. The Chairman of the association, Dr Tope Ojo, made the appeal at a news briefing in Lagos on Sunday. Ojo said that it was annoying that the state government withheld the […]

…says we’ve videos where you appeared A socio-religious group, Christians United Against Boko Haram (CUABH) on Sunday slammed a former Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie for his comments on the current President of Christian Association of Nigeria, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, saying he should keep quiet because under him (Okogie) Nigeria was taken to […]

Ekiti State Governor-Elect, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has said the call by the National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Lai Mohammed, that he should be arrested over the recent political developments in the state was baseless, spurious and originates from an ignorant mind. Speaking in Ado-Ekiti on Saturday through his Chief Press […]

Nigeria’s human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has charged the acting Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, to immediately arrest and prosecute all those who invaded the High Court in Ado Ekiti beating up a Judge and violating the Court of Justice. He described the action as a sacrilege against the state judiciary, blaming the State governor-elect, […]

Australian negotiator, Dr. Stephen Davis has revealed more ways through which Ali Modu Sheriff is sponsoring members of the Islamic extremist sect Boko Haram, appealing to the sect to embrace peace, following the death Abubakar Shekau’s impostor for more than a year. According to Davis the real Shekau was killed in June 2013. Davis made […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has described Governor Kayode Fayemi’s Friday broadcast on the political unrest in the State as a further demonstration of the governor’s wickedness and heartlessness. The party said it was only a wicked leader that would address the state without at least, mentioning the name of the National […]

The Thursday night gruesome murder of the former chairman of Ekiti State chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Chief Omolafe Aderiye by hired assassins has been condemned by the Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State. The State Publicity Secretary of the Party, Pastor Kola Oluwawole who addressed a press conference in […]

President Goodluck Jonathan has extolled Bishop David Oyedepo’s massive accomplishments as a devoted servant of God and his immense contributions to the education of Nigerian children. In a letter written to congratulate the Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide on his 60th birthday anniversary, on Saturday 27th September,  Jonathan declared that Oyedepo’s life […]