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Proceedings at the plenary session of the National Conference were mournfully adjourned on Wednesday following the news of the death of Maryamu, the wife of the Conference Chairman and retired Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi, GCON. Maryamu, aged 70, died at the National Hospital in Abuja at about 2 am on […]

The presidency has debunked reports in national and foreign media that the Federal Government is currently in the process of recruiting an international public relations firm to “counter mounting criticism both inside and outside the country”, saying the reports are completely false and baseless. The presidency made the clarification on Tuesday, in a press release […]

Following the adoption of the Former Governor and Deputy Governor’s Pension Bill 2014 in Akwa Ibom State by the state’s House of Assembly, on Monday, Governor Godswill Akpabio may become the richest pension-earning former governor in Nigeria, earning close to N140 million annually. The bill, prepared and passed in just 11days, also allocates a one-off […]

Sources have revealed that former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo has met with people close to Boko Haram in a move to negotiate the freedom of the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted from their school dormitory in Chibok Borno State. According to the source, the meeting took place during the weekend at Obasanjo’s farm in […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday warned the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) against what it called the opposition’s continuous insults at President Goodluck Jonathan and his government reminding the APC that power comes from God. The party said it had carefully taken stock of the sustained insults, vituperations, lies and unending schemes by […]

The endorsement, days ago, of Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, a former civil servant in Lagos by the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, has generated more controversies than was expected resulting in a shaky ambition for the aspirant. Oba Akiolu, during the launch of a book in honour of Ambode, took the microphone and announced that the […]

Gunmen suspected to be members of the Islam extremist sect Boko Haram, struck brutally in three villages in Borno State, northern Nigeria, leaving 28 people dead and several houses razed. The gunmen attacked a community squeezed between the Cameroun borders and Chibok, site of the unprecedented mass abduction which attracted global attention to the nation. […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the Jonathan-led Federal Government of abdicating its responsibility to Nigerian citizens with the statement attributed to the president that those who are calling for the safe return of the girls should address their protests to the abductors, rather than to the president or the government he leads. In […]

As the industrial action embarked upon by the lecturers at the Lagos State University (LASU) takes its toll on the institution, the State Government seems to have succumbed to pressure from both the students, lecturers and residents of the state for the downward review of the school fees. Since 2012, when Governor Babatunde Fashola and […]

Hajiya Sefiya Hassan Akere, the foster mother of former military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, is dead. Though she died on Thursday, at the age of 101 after a brief illness, the announcement was made on Saturday by family members. One of late Akere’s children, Alhaji Dattijo Aliyu, Director General of the Niger State Millennium Development […]

In solidarity with the over 200 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria since 14th April, shouts of “bring back our girls” filled South Africa’s Union Buildings, venue of President Jacob Zuma’s inauguration on Saturday, when Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan arrived at the venue. Jonathan attended the event alongside 19 other heads of state. According South Africa’s authority, […]

Another bomb explosion has rocked Angwan Rukuba area of Jos North local government of Plateau State, killing three people and injuring the three others. www.www.aso.rocks search engine learnt that explosion, which was intended for a televison viewing center occurred at about 9:18pm, during champions league final match between, Real Madrid and Athletico Madrid. Mr Chris […]