Reports

Taraba State has been faring very well despite the dissolution of the state executive council, contrary to widespread speculations, Chief of Staff to the Taraba State Governor, Mr. Aminu Jika has said. According to Jika, returnee governor, Danbaba Suntai has up to three months until he is mandated by “the law” to constitute another executive […]

Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan will be awarded an honorary fellowship of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria at its 31st Annual Convocation ceremony scheduled for Thursday, 19th September 2013 at the college’s premises at Ijanikin, Lagos. According to President of the college, Professor Victor C. Wakwe who made the revelation on Saturday, […]

Enugu Zonal Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Chika Nwaka says the commission has concluded plans to prosecute Deputy Commissioner of Police in the Ebonyi Police Command, Istifanus Shettima for allegedly assaulting some officers of the commission.  Speaking on Saturday at a public sensitisation rally on the use of Speed Limit Devices in Abakaliki, Nwaka […]

Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu has denied ever working under his successor in office, Mrs. Farida Waziri. On the contrary, he said he was the one who tutored Waziri when she was just posted even though she was his senior in the Police. While reacting to an […]

Patrick Igbinidu, a popular Benin chief and elder brother of one of the wives of the Oba of Benin, Solomon Erediauwa, has been kidnapped. The news is coming at the same period as the release of prominent Nigerian lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome, who was freed early on Thursday after nearly two weeks with the abductors. […]

Officials of the Nigeria Police on Thursday disrupted the launch of a secretariat belonging to the breakaway faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, sealing it off. The secretariat was opened after Chief of Staff to Rivers State Governor, Tony Okocha led other members of the State Executive Council (SEC) and […]

Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon is happy with the evolution of “serious international discussions” that have the prospect of convincing the UN Security Council to reach an agreement on securing and destroying Syria’s chemical weapons. According to a UN spokesman in New York, Ban Ki-Moon “welcomes, therefore, President Obama’s decision to take time to further […]

Suspected fraudster, Fred Ajudua has been granted bail by Justice Ganiyu Safari of the Lagos High Court in Ikeja in the sum of N50m with two sureties in like sum. He was granted bail on the grounds of his failing health, after two months in detention, on the back of seven years in which he […]

The Delta State Government has spoken against Friday’s attack on the state’s commissioner for education, Professor Patrick Muoboghare, which resulted in a hand injury that required serious medical attention. Muoboghare was attacked by youths during a meeting of political groups in the area, and stabbed in the hand. “On Saturday, September 6, 2013, Delta State […]

After several false starts by Turai & co. mimics to re-enact the tragi-comedy that played out during the last days of the late president Umaru Musa ‘Yar Adu’a by Turai, his wife and her associates, Hauwa Danbaba Suntai, the mini Turai, is trying hard to re-enact the same thing done by Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare […]

Some senators on Tuesday had a close-door session with embattled Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi over the lingering crisis that has engulfed the State. Currently, the State House of Assembly has not been sitting since the fracas that broke out in the House between lawmakers loyal to the Governor and the five renegades considered […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has responded to growing media reports alleging series of financial malpractice against Chairman Attahiru Jega and other leading officers. According to the commission, these reports are mere campaigns of calumny ahead of the 2015 general elections that will not be allowed to dent the commission’s resolve to conduct free […]