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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, senatorial candidate for Kaduna Central in the February 2019 elections, Lawal Adamu Usman allegedly escaped lynching by thugs suspected to have been sent by his opponents on Saturday. Recall that at the last sitting of the Kaduna State Senatorial Elections Petitions Tribunal, Ustaz Yunus Usman SAN, lead counsel to Lawal … Read more
More than 2,000 people protested Sunday in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, calling for a ban on the anti-Boko Haram Civilian Joint TaskForce (CJTF) militia they accuse of abuses after the killing of a rickshaw driver. The protesters blocked major roads in the Suleimanti area of the city and set fires, causing chaos despite … Read more
Some Nigerians have expressed their shock over the choice of housemates in the ongoing fourth season of the Big Brother Naija reality show. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the season kicked off on Sunday with 21 housemates, most of whom some viewers have described as “more foreign than Nigerian.” Respondents said that it … Read more
A Deputy Director of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Auwal Jibrin has bagged a six-year jail term for benefiting from N45 million bribe of a former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke in the build-up of the 2015 Presidential election. Mr Jibrin was charged on a six-count charge before Justice Yusuf Birnin-Kudu of the Jigawa … Read more
Israeli air strikes in Syria left nine mostly foreign pro-regime fighters and six civilians including three children dead, a Britain-based war monitor said Monday. The raids near Damascus and in Homs province late Sunday killed the fighters, but it was not immediately clear exactly how the civilians died — whether in the strikes or in … Read more
A small twin-engine plane crashed on takeoff Sunday into a hangar at a Texas airport, officials said, killing all 10 aboard. “The Dallas County Medical Examiner has confirmed 10 fatalities and no survivors,” a spokeswoman for the town of Addison told AFP. The plane was heading from Addison to St. Petersburg, Florida and was carrying … Read more
Federal High Court Sitting in Lagos has ordered the permanent forfeiture to the Federal Government, the sum of $8.4million and another N9.2billion linked to the wife of the former President, Dame Patience Jonathan. Justice Mojisola Olaterogun held that she failed to show reasonable cause why the funds should not be permanently forfeited. The court found … Read more
A Lagos businesswoman, Abimbola Ayanwale has been killed by yet to be identified men. According to a friend, the lady received a call on Monday, June 1, 2019 around 8pm and left. By the time it was 10:45pm her dead body was already lying down on the road in Maryland. It was gathered that her … Read more
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to focus on curbing the level of hunger in the country and stop offering Nigerians what he described as tokenism.” The former vice-president said it is not enough to declare June 12 as Democracy Day as many Nigerians are … Read more
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says its helicopter crashed in the process of landing while returning from an anti-banditry combat mission in the Northwest Theatre under Operation HADARAN DAJI. A statement on Wednesday in Abuja by NAF’s spokesman, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, said that details of the cause of the incident, which occurred at the … Read more
At least 30 Venezuelan migrants are missing after the speedboat they were traveling in sank on its way to Curacao, an opposition lawmaker said on Tuesday. The vessel left from a village in the northwest on Friday with 30 to 35 people on board, deputy Luis Stefanelli told AFP, quoting family members. “No one has … Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his government can lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in the next 10 years. Buhari revealed this in his opening speech during the inaugural June 12 Democracy Day celebration in Abuja on Wednesday. He added that despite the positive growth in the economy, his administration is mapping out … Read more
A group of third republic legislators has said that they are the true victims of June 12. The group of legislators made this claim on Wednesday at the Eagles Square where Democracy Day activities are slated to take place. They argue that they have not been compensated and have lost about 145 of their members … Read more
A photo showing the senator representing Delta central, Ovie Omo-Agege on Tuesday, kneeling down to greet President Muhammadu Buhari after his victory as deputy senate president has gone viral on social media Omo-Agege had defeated Ike Ekweremadu, the deputy Senate President to emerge as the ninth Deputy President of the Senate. In Tuesday’s election the … Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari has renamed the national stadium in Abuja after MKO Abiola. The President made the declaration while giving a speech at the Democracy Day celebration which held at the Eagles Square on Wednesday, June 12. He said, “Today, I propose the renaming of the Abuja National stadium henceforth, it will be called Moshood … Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived the Eagles Square in Abuja where the June 12 Democracy Day celebrations are holding for the first time. His arrival signalled the commencement of the 2019 June 12 Democracy Day celebration being attended by world leaders. The President waited to receive other world leaders before taking salute on the Saluting … Read more
Oyo State Government, on Tuesday, announced the cancellation of the mid term break, for the third term of 2018/2019 academic session, for public primary and secondary schools in the state. The announcement was contained in a circular signed by Mr I. O. Adeosun, the acting Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and made … Read more
The Federal Government has stated that the Federal Ministry of Justice is committed to pursuing the amendment of the Cybercrimes Act, which many lawyers, journalists and activists have considered repressive, unconstitutional and illegal. This was stated today by Mr. Terlumun George Tyendezwa, Head, Cybercrimes Prosecution Unit, Federal Ministry of Justice, at a Media Interactive Session … Read more
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has congratulated the newly elected leadership of the 9th National Assembly and the inauguration of lawmakers. In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party acknowledged the newly elected Senate President, Deputy Senate President; as well as the newly elected Speaker and … Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday night took to Twitter to congratulate the Newly Elected Presiding Officers of the 9th National Assembly and also all the National Legislators. He tweeted saying…. I congratulate the newly elected presiding officers of the Ninth National Assembly. Congratulations also to all national legislators and their political parties for the … Read more