Reports

I am not taking money from any government parastatal to fund my political ambition, The Supervising Minister of Aviation, Chief Samuel Ortom has said. Ortom denied the allegation in a statement made available to journalists in Lagos on Tuesday, describing the allegation as “malicious”. He dared anyone with evidence of such collection to publish it […]

The emergence of Chief John Odigie-Oyegun and other new members of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of All Progressives Congress (APC) is a product of transparency, democracy and compromise, former Vice President and chieftain of the party, Atiku Abubakar has said. The former vice president made the assertion in a statement of solidarity to the […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alerted Nigerians of what it called a well orchestrated plot by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to cause confusion and set the stage for disturbances in Ekiti State following their realisation that the people have rejected them ahead of Saturday’s governorship election. “Part of this plot is the highly […]

Chief Bisi Akande, former Chairman of the All Progressives Congress on Wednesday recalled how two rival parties with the acronym, APC, emerged while the All Progressives Congress was in the process of being registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Akande, who handed over in Abuja to Chief John Odigie-Oyegun as the new national […]

The National Conference sitting in Abuja on Tuesday asked the Federal Government to ensure that every major airport in the country is linked to functional rail lines to boost easy access to airports across the country. Government was also asked to initiate and construct a rail line from Lagos to Enugu through Ore to ease […]

Yobe Police Command has confirmed that an explosion occured on Tuesday in Tsamiyan Lilo area of Damaturu. the state capital.   Mr Nansak Chewang, the command’s public relations officer, confirmed the incident.   “You know it happened just this night, we are yet to establish what happened and the details,” Chewang said.    

The Police have begun an investigation into Sunday’s averted bombing of a Church in Owerri, Imo State. CSP Frank Mba, the force public relations officer, made the disclosure at a joint news conference organised by the National Information Centre, Abuja on Monday, where he cautioned members of the public not to hurriedly link the incident […]

Following protests by students in its two campuses, the University of Abuja has been closed until further notice. The University’s Governing Council closed the campuses on Monday, ordering the students out of the hostels and campuses. The university had been entangled in a series of crises, which had terribly impeded its growth. An industrial action […]

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, on Friday assured Nigerian citizens, especially indigenes of Ekiti State, of the readiness of the Nigeria Police Force and other relevant security agencies to provide effective security and ensure a smooth and orderly conduct of the Ekiti gubernatorial election, come 21st June 2014. IGP Abubakar, who gave this assurance […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the Police hierarchy to immediately launch a comprehensive investigation into the violence unleashed by armed policemen on innocent members of the party during a peaceful procession in Ado Ekiti last Sunday, with a view to unravelling the cause of the unprovoked attack. In a statement issued in Abuja […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the Police violence against its members in Ado Ekiti on Sunday, asserting that the trouble was deliberately planned by the presidency and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the 2015 general elections. In a statement issued by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in Lagos on […]

The exchange of obnoxious words between the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) continued at a state level on Saturday when APC’s Kayode Fayemi Campaign Organisation lashed out at Vice President Namadi Sambo, saying he committed fallacies in the statements he made about the Fayemi-led administration in Ekiti State at a […]