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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed reasons why it is creating more polling units throughout the states of the country.  Among other things, the new polling units would serve as a means of decongesting already existing ones which are usually over crowded on election days. Dismissing the rumour that the additional polling units […]

… APC Kicks A photograph released by the presidency on Tuesday showed President Goodluck Jonathan in Chad Republic with controversial former Governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff, who had been allegedly linked with the sponsorship of the Boko Haram terrorist group in Nigeria. They met with the President of Chad, Idris Derby, for an […]

Only a day after appointing new commissioners and listing their formations, the Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, has again approved the redeployment of 32 Commissioners of Police to different formations across the country. A statement signed by the Force Public Relations Officers, DCP Emmanuel Ojukwu, explained that the new posting was to re-invigorate the force […]

Adeboye Obasanjo son of Nigeria’s former President, Olusegun Obasanjo who is also a Lieutenant Colonel in the Nigerian army was shot in an attack by Boko Haram in Baza in Adamawa State on Monday. The incident occurred when the terrorists attacked a platoon led by Obasanjo. According to reports, 24 soldiers in the platoon were […]

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Oyegun, as well as governors on the platform of the says the party have declared that the party is the only alternative left for the transformation of Nigeria. They therefore urged Nigerians to vote for the party to gain power in 2015. Oyegun, while speaking […]

The acting Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, has named and deployed new officers to 21 states as Commissioners of Police in the States. In the new appointment, Kayode Aderanti  replaces Umar Manko as the new Commissioner of Police for Lagos State.  Manko was redeployed from the position after his elevation to  Assistant Inspector-General of Police. […]

For swindling a 75-year–old woman of 200,000 Euros in a romance scam, a 31-year-old confidence trickster, Adio Opeyemi Michael, an indigene of  Owu Local Government Area of Ogun State, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC. The victim, one Jeanet De Jonge, is a Dutch national.  Adio allegedly met the victim […]

Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu has given an update of the status of Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria. The update is as follows:  Total number of confirmed cases of Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria is now 18. The 18th confirmed case is the sister of the late Port Harcourt doctor.  Total number of cases […]

In a face-saving move to clear a battered image, the former governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff, has threatened to sue Australian Boko Haram negotiator, Stephen Davis, for revealing that he was one of the sponsors of the Boko Haram sect. Davis had said on an international television that Sheriff and former Army Chief, […]

The British High Commission in Nigeria on Wednesday confirmed the death of Mr. Peter Leslie Carter, a Deputy High Commissioner. Carter died on Tuesday at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport. His death just as he landed from a United Airlines Flight UA143 at 3.50pm had resulted in confusion, people around scampering out of fear that […]

A 31-year old man, Wasiu Ogunnoiki is facing charges before a Magistrate’s Court in Sagamu, Ogun State simply because he allegedly posted some negative remarks about the Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, on his Facebook wall. Ogunnoiki had accused the state governor, in a posting on his Facebook wall, that Amosun had demolished people’s houses […]

Unknown gunmen have killed two policemen guarding a Chinese mining firm at Magama Gumau village in Toro local government area of Bauchi State. The Policemen who were guarding the firm’s gate were attacked around 5 am on Tuesday morning. No concrete account could be gathered about exactly how the incident occurred because the firm was […]