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The gale of appointments by President Goodluck Jonathan continued on Thursday with the appointment of Roli Bode-George, the wife of Chief Bode George, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the new Director-General of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). Her appointment, which was announced by Dr. Reuben Abati, Jonathan’s spokesperson, follows […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised alarm that its governors have been prevented by security agencies apparently acting on “orders from above” from travelling to Ado-Ekiti for the party’s final campaign for the Ekiti State governorship election. In a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday by APC’s National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the […]Read More

Security agents in Ondo, on Thursday ambushed Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, arrested him and kept him hostage. The governor was on his way to Ekiti State to support his colleague, Kayode Fayemi in a ‘mega’ rally that was scheduled for Thursday ahead of the governorship election in the State on Saturday. At the […]

An Otuocha High Court in Anambra State has passed a life jail sentence on a banker, Jude Onwuzuluike, who had been standing trial since February 2013 over the whereabouts of his business partner, Chinwuba Ekwenze. Onwuzuluike, a staff of United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Ogboefere, Bridge-head, Onitsha, had first been arraigned in the court […]

President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed Mr. Olufemi Ajayi as the Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF). Ajayi’s appointment was communicated on Wednesday in a press release signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity matters, Reuben Abati. “The appointment is with immediate effect,” Abati stated in the release. […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Rivers State Chapter, has on Wednesday accused the state’s governor, Rotimi Amaechi as being responsible for the recent mass influx of suspected Boko Haram members into South-Southern and South-Eastern states of Nigeria, with his  consistent and unhidden revolutionary activities and series of calls and incitement for revolution against the Federal […]

The Aare Musulimi of Yorubaland and popular Ibadan-based businessman, Abdulazeez Arisekola Alao, has died. Alao died on Tuesday at the age of 69 at a hospital in Switzerland. Sources within the family said he died after a battle with colon cancer. His remains are expected in Nigeria on Thursday to be interred according to Islamic rites. […]

Seventy five inmates of the Kirikiri Minimum and Maximum Prisons were on Tuesday freed by the Chief Justice of Lagos State, Justice Ayotunde Phillips.   Fortune smiled on the beneficiaries of the gesture as they were release by Justice Phillips while on an inspection tour of the detention facilities ahead of her retirement.   Out […]

A terror kingpin has been detected among the wanted terrorists in the ongoing screening of some arrested 486 suspects.   Defence Headquarters (DHQ) made the revelation on Tuesday, saying the suspects were nabbed along Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway while travelling in over 33 Hiace Hummer buses on the night of15th June.   According to a statement […]

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed shock over a statement by the All Progressives Congress (APC) regarding the actual age of the newly elected APC National Youth Leader, Ibrahim Dasuki Jalo. There had been controversy over his true age with many Nigerians condemning the APC for electing a 56 year-old man for the position. The […]

Lagos-based lawyer, Festus Keyamo, was on Tuesday listed among the 23 lawyers being considered for the conferment of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) by the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee (LPPC). According to the LPPC statement containing the list, the committee therefore requested the public to comment on the integrity, reputation and competence of the proposed […]

There was tension in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Plateau State on Monday, leading to the suspension of the State Chairman of the party, Dr. Haruna Dabin, by the State Executive Committee. Dabin was suspended after an extra ordinary meeting in Jos, the Plateau State capital, where he was accused of misappropriation of party […]