Again, Female Bomber Hits Kano Poly, 3 Dead, 7 Injured, 3 Insurgents Nabbed In Katsina
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. Another female suicide bomber Wednesday detonated an explosive in a school compound, killing herself and three students of Kano State Polytechnic, in Kano. It is the sixth time in More...
Group Urges Bankole To Contest Ogun 2015 Guber
A group known as DSB Vanguard has urged the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole, to contest in 2015 governorship elections in Ogun State. The group made the call in a statement issued More...
BREAKING: Nasir El-Rufai Loses Son In Auto Crash
Hamza El-Rufai, son of former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir El-Rufai died this morning in an auto crash. Hamza was involved in an early morning ghastly accident which claimed his More...
Update: Kano Bomb Blast, NNPC Mega Station Not In Flame -Police
The Police authorities have denied reports that the NNPC Mega station in Hotoro, Kano went up in flame following the second suicide bombing attack that occurred close to the filling station. At 1:40p.m, another More...
FRSC Back Down On New Plate Number, Driver’s Licence
The Federal Road Safety Corps has backtracked on its plan to clampdown on vehicle owners who have not procured its new number plate and driver’s licence by August 1. The agency said it had not fixed a deadline More...
TCN Plans To Spend $8Billion To Boost Power Supply
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said it planned to inject $8 billion to upgrade its operations to achieve 20,000 megawatts electricity supply in the country. Executive Director, More...
Muslim Group Berates FG Over Chibok Girls
The group, Muslim Media Watch Group (MMWG), Monday declared that the government’s rescue efforts on the abducted girls was taking too long. The group, made the declaration in a statement issued Abuja by its More...
INEC Reels Out Statistics On Osun Poll, Says 24 Candidates In Contest
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. Twenty political parties have nominated candidates for the Osun State governorship election slated for August 9, 2014. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) disclosed More...
Senate May Bury C’ttee Report On Abba Moro’s Jinxed Recruitment Exercise
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. There are strong indications that the report of Senate Committee on Interior over the tragic immigration recruitment exercise which claimed not less 18 lives of job-seekers may eventually More...
Another Female Bomber Hits Kano
Less than 24-hours into the last Sunday attack by a suspected Boko Haram insurgent in Kano, another female suicide bomber in Nigeria’s Kano city killed three people and injured seven others on Monday in an attack More...
Cameroon’s V.P Wife Abduction: IJTF Intensifies Border Hunts For Insurgents
International Joint Task Force set up to tackle the Boko Haram insurgents has intensified in its operation in the border area with Cameroon in the wake of recurrent insurgency attacks in the border towns. A reliable More...
Boko Haram Attacks Adamawa, Scores Feared Dead
Gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram Islamist insurgents reportedly stormed Garkida, in Gombi Local Government Area of Adamawa State on Sunday, killing several people in the attack. Security sources More...
Osun 2014: APC Alleges ‘New Rigging Strategy By PDP’
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja.The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said it has uncoverred new plans of how the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) allegedly intends to rig the 9th August 2014 governorship More...
Troops Arrest Suspect Of Kaduna Bombing
Troops are holding a man suspected to be connected with the explosion believed to have been targeted at General Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in which scores of people died. The young man who was apprehended More...
Leave Security Matters To Securitymen, Presidency Tells Critics
The Presidency said on Friday that issues of security must be left to those trained on the matter to handle it. It, therefore, appealed to the political class to stop the blame game and also stop politicizing More...
Lagos Raises Alarm Over Suspected Case Of Ebola Virus
The Lagos State Government has raised an alarm over a suspected case of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in the city of Lagos, cautioning residents to report any symptom to hospitals. The disease has so far More...
Kano Blast: Police Say Only 1 Death Recorded, Eyewitness Says 6
Less than 24-hours into the explosion in Kaduna in which over 100 persons lost their lives, another improvised explosive device went off inside the crowded New Road motor park located at Sabon Gari, Kano leaving More...
Bomb Blasts: Killings Not A Solution To Any Problem -Mark
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja.Senate President Senator David Mark has for the umpteenth time urged the perpetrators of terrorism and bomb blasts in the country to sheathe their swords, saying, as killing of innocent More...
APC Chieftain ,Colonel Talabi, Others Defect To PDP ….As Omisore Pledges Anti-Poverty Programmes
Less than twenty days to the Osun state governorship election,the All Progressive Congress on Wednesday lost one of its top chieftain,Colonel Olayiwola Talabi (rtd) who defected with hundreds of his supporters More...
NFA Chairman, Aminu Maigari Impeached
Report just reaching our news desk from the Glass House says the President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Aminu Maigari has been impeached.Maigari was impeached by eight votes to five of the 13-man Executive More...
Osun Election: Islamic Leaders Reject Gov Aregbesola’ Overtures
Few days to the governorship election in Osun state,Governor Rauf Aregbesola has launched consultations with Islamic leaders across the three senatorial districts of the state. Reports from the encounters of the More...
EFCC Grills Nyako’s Deputy
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja.The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday grilled ousted Deputy Governor of Adamawa State, Mr. Bala Ngilari for about three hours at the headquarter of the Commission More...
2015: Daniel Vows To Stop Amosun…We’ve Rubbished His Legacy Of Violence -Governor
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. The former Governor of Ogun State, Mr. Gbenga Daniel, has berated his successor and incumbent Govenor Ibikunle Amosun , accusing him of rubbishing all the good works he did during his More...
Jonathan Reassures On Safe Return Of Chibok Girls, Some Parents Are Dead Already -Chibok’s Spokesman
President Goodluck Jonathan has reassured the Chibok community that the over 200 girls abducted in April by the Boko Haram Insurgents will be rescued and safely returned to their parents. Even as reports said no More...
Minister Calls For Application Of Science And Technology Innovations In African Countries
By Chuks Sunday, Abuja.African scientists have being urged to apply science and technology innovations (STI) in their various countries, as a means of improving socio-economic conditions.The call was made by the More...
Damboa Attacks: Wakil Commiserates With Victims …Pledges Military, Humanitarian Response
The Minister of State for Power, Hon. Mohammed Wakil has decried the escalation in Boko Haram attacks in Borno state and particularly in Damboa town, commiserating with victims and pledging military and humanitarian More...
BREAKING: Nigerian Air Force Mi-35 Helicopter Crashes South Of Bama, Army Rule Out Enemy Action
The Defence authorities have confirmed that a Nigerian Air Force Mi-35 Helicopter on a training mission this afternoon at a location South of Bama. Bama and it’s environs are considered black spots where More...
Helen Nwaobasi Elected As New Ebonyi Speaker
In a commando style, members of Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Monday morning impeached the Speaker, Mr. Chukwuma Nwazunku, just as it elected its first female speaker, Mr. Helen Nwaobasi. Nwazunku was reportedly More...
Former OPEC Secretary General, Rilwanu Lukman, Is Dead
Former Secretary General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and two term Nigeria’s Minister of Petroleum Resources, Dr. Rilwanu Lukman, is dead. Family sources said Lukman died early More...
Maigari In Fresh Trouble, As FIFA Lifts Ban On Nigeria
The crisis rocking the Nigerian Football is far from being over despite the vacation of a court Order restraining the board from running football in the country, as aggrieved members of the board are warming up More...
Ekiti Election: Intellect Was Thrown Into Dustbin -Fayemi
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja.Four weeks after losing the Ekiti Gubernatorial election to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Mr. Ayo Fayose, incumbent Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, said in Abuja that the More...
Malaysian Plane ‘Shot Down With 295 On Board’
A Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur comes down in Ukraine after reportedly being hit by a ground-to-air missile. Aviation sources said the Malaysia Airlines plane, which was flying from Amsterdam More...
ASUP Demands Are Genuine -Mark …Calls For Dialogue, Understanding
The President of the Senate, Senator David Mark has reiterated the Federal Government’s commitment towards addressing the ills in the education sector including the demands by the Academic Staff Union More...
Press Release From Rivers State Government
The Rivers State Government in futherance of its open government policy has has commenced its tour of all the wards in the 23 local government areas of the state. The tour commenced yesterday July 15, 2014 with More...
Jonathan Goes Tough On Boko Haram …Seeks $1 Bn Loan To Fight Terror
President Goodluck Jonathan Wednesday requested for immediate approval of $1 billion by the National Assembly to enable government tackle the Islamic insurgents, Boko-Haram in Nigeria.The President in a letter addressed More...
Nyanya Bombing: Interpol Hands Over Ogwuche, IGP Commends Operation
The alleged mastermind of the Abuja Motor Park bombing, Mr. Aminu Ogwuche has been extradited to Nigeria by the Interpol. The extradition followed the conclusion of legal and diplomatic processes between Nigeria More...
Securitymen Arrest Fake Boko Haram In Abuja
Security forces operating in Abuja metropolis have arrested a man who specializes in creating panic by sending out text messages threatening attack by Boko Haram terrorists. The suspect, Ugwu Lawrence who was tracked More...
Dwindling Economy: Mark Advocates Stronger Public, Private Partnership
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja.The President of the Senate, Senator David Mark today took stock of the dwindling fortune of the nation’s economy and called for stronger public and private sectors participation More...
2014: Senate Passes N271billion FCT Budget Proposal
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja.The Senate Tuesday passed the N271.1 billion budget for Federal Capital Territory (FCT) just as it called for faster development of the territory by the Federal Capital Territory Administration More...
Breaking: Nyako Impeached, Ngilari Resigns
Governor of Adamawa state, Mr. Murtala Nyako has been impeached. The panel probing the 18 count charge of gross misconduct leveled against Nyako and his Deputy, Bala Ngilari, submitted its reports to the Adamawa More...
The Imperative Of Stopping Nigeria’s Annual Loss Of At Least One Trillion Naira (N1Tr) To OPA And Swap Due To Sub-Optimal Refineries’ Operations
Attention: Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke and Engr. Andrew Yakubu It is extremely disturbing to read the first response of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to #BringBackOurRefineries. The Group More...
Press Release (01) #Bring Back Our Refineries
Attention: Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke and Engr. Andrew Yakubu 5th July 2014 Alongside many other patriotic Nigerians, I am intensely worried that our refineries in Nigeria have virtually become comatose. More...
Ali Modu Sheriff Dumps APC, Declares For PDP
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. Former Governor of Borno state, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, on Monday, formally defected from the All Progressive Congress (APC) and announced his entry to the Peoples Democratic Party More...
Update: CONFAB Maintains 13% On Derivation, Asks Jonathan For Technical C’ttee
…Adjourns Till August 4 …South/South Delegate Cries Foul By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. The hope of South- South delegates to secure an increase in derivation formula was dashed Monday as the National More...
Revenue Formula: Conference Wants Technical Committee To Determine Appropriate Percentage …Adjourns Till August 4
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. The plenary session of the National Conference drew to a close on Monday without any clear resolution of the contentious issues of revenue allocation and derivation principle. The Conference More...
Federation Cup: Lafia Rumbles For El-Kanemi, Dolphins
This year’s Men Federation Cup competition hits the Round of 16 stage on Thursday with a number of interesting fixtures, including three ties involving Premier League teams. Two former champions, El-Kanemi Warriors More...
Jonathan Reassures Malala On Chibok Girls’ Release
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. President Goodluck Jonathan has assured the Pakistani girl child education activist, Miss Malala Yosafzai that all abducted Chibok girls would be returned safely.Malala disclosed More...
House Commences Impeachment Proceedings Against Gov Al-Makura
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. The Nasarawa State House of Assembly has commenced impeachment proceedings on Governor Umaru Al-Makura. The Assembly on Monday directed its Clerk, Ego Maikeffi, to serve Mr. Al-Makura More...
More Trouble For NFF As FG Halts Release Of N253m July Allocation
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. Piqued by the revelation of an alleged monumental fraud and gross misappropriation of funds by the Aminu Maigari-led Executive Board, the Federal Government has stopped direct release More...
We Are Yet To Call Off Our Strike – COEASU
Unlike the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP) that is expected to resume work onTuesday after suspending its ten months strike, the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) said on Sunday that More...
ASUP Suspends Strike, Directs Polytechnics To Resume Lecture Tuesday
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, has announced the suspension of its over 10 months strike. ASUP President, Dr. Chibuzor Asumogha, said the suspension is only for three months to allow the new minister More...
Police Uncover Plans To Attack Abuja Transport Service, IGP Orders Intensive Surveillance
The Police said it has uncovered plots by the Boko Haram to carry out attacks on the Abuja transport system, calling for extra vigilance among visitors and residents in the federal capital. A statement by the Force More...
ECOWAS Leaders Endorse Regional Single Currency, as Nigeria Donates $3m To Fight Ebola Virus
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), has approved recommendations for the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) initiative, the use of single currency, food security, infrastructural and manpower More...
Hundreds Of Ghanaian Fans Seeking Asylum In Brazil
Conflict in West Africa has already generated unfortunate headlines during the World Cup. Now the often untold strife occurring in places like Ghana and Nigeria is having an impact on the ground in Brazil. According More...
CONFAB: Northern Delegates Betrayed Us -Kwankwaso
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. Kano State governor, Mr. Rabiu Kwankwaso, has slammed delegates representing the interest of the North at ongoing National Conference, accusing them of compromising on the north agenda. Kwankwaso, More...
Corporate Governance Vital To Investment Promotion -NIPC
By Funmi Emmanuel, Abuja. The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission, NIPC, Mrs. Saratu Umar has reiterated her commitment to make the Commission world class investment promotion agency More...
W/Bank, FG, States Partner On Public Finance Management
By Funmi Emmanuel, Abuja. World Bank says it will partner the federal and state governments to improve Public Finance Management and ensure effective delivery of government’s policies and projects. The disclosure More...
Trade Agreement Will Reduce Costs Of Business In Nigeria -FG
By Funmi Emmanuel, Abuja. The federal government said Thursday in Abuja that implementation of the new trade facilitation agreement would drastically reduce costs of trading as well as improve Nigeria’s ease More...
Troops Crush Boko Haram’s Ambush In Delwa
The military authorities have said that troops on patrol around Delwa and neighbouring communities on Wednesday successfully broke through insurgents’ ambush 35kilometres to Maiduguri as they advanced to dislodge More...
Senate Rejects Proposal For Subsidy Removal, It’s Against Public Opinion, Says Mark
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. The Senate on Thursday declined to approve its committee proposal for the removal of fuel subsidy, insisting that doing so would amount to swimming against the tide of public opinion. Senate More...
Again, Delegates Fail To Agree On Revenue Sharing Formula, Derivation …Conference Chairman To Meet With Interest Groups On Friday
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. Plenary session of the National Conference ended on Thursday without a final decision on critical issues of revenue sharing formula from the Federation Account and derivation principle. Members More...
Senate Moves To Intervene In NMA Strike
The Senate has begun moves to lobby members of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) to end the ongoing industrial action embarked upon by members of the association last week. Speaking Monday through a motion brought More...
‘We Owe You No Apology,’ Senate Tells Rochas Okorocha
The Senate on Tuesday again slammed the Imo State Governor, Mr. Rochas Okorocha, saying it owes him no apology over condemnation of his government’s proposed policy on the issuance of Identification Card More...
CONFAB Takes Final Decision On Devolution Of Power, Resource Control, Fiscal Federalism On Wednesday
By Olusegun Emmanuel. Abuja. In a bid to calm the already heightened emotions over the knotty issues before it, proceedings at the National Conference was on Tuesday afternoon adjourned till Wednesday when voting More...
Troops Clear Terrorists Bases In Balmo Forest, Capture Foreign Mercenaries
The military authority said troops have cleared and taken over Balmo forest in a military operation that lasted throughout the weekend. Prior to the operation, Balmo forest stretching from Bauchi through Jigawa More...
CONFAB Commences Debate On Devolution Of Power, Resource Control
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. The resumed sitting of the National Conference on Monday witnessed heated debate as delegates commenced deliberation on the controversial report of the Committee on Devolution of Power. The More...
Attack On Troops’s Location: 53 Insurgents Die, 4 Arrested With Explosives Hidden In Fish Consignment
By Ibrahim Imam, Kaduna. The Defence headquarters yesterday announced that over 50 terrorists died as troops repelled a daring attack on troops’ locations in Damboa, Borno State Sunday night. The terrorists had More...
Lamido Confers Traditional Title On Prof Bolaji Akinyemi
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. The Deputy Chairman of the National Conference and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, has been conferred with the traditional title of Hasken Adamawa by His More...
Katsina APC Congress And Senator Bello’s Objection
By Michael Jegede Few days to the National Convention of All Progressives Congress (APC), which took place on June 12 and 13, 2014, Katsina State chapter of the party held its state congress after over two months More...
FG Plans Operation Light Up Rural Nigeria For States
By Funmi Emmanuel, Abuja. Following the recent initiative by the federal government to ensure that every community in Nigeria enjoys power supply, Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo has stated that no effort More...
Energy Mix: FG To Partner International Atomic Energy
By Funmi Emmanuel, Abuja. The Minister of Power, Chinedu Nebo has assured that in no distant time, Nigeria in its quest for a robust energy mix will look into the direction of nuclear energy. He stated this when More...
US Overtakes Saudi Arabia, Russia As Largest Oil Producer
Funmi Emmanuel with agency reports The United States of America has become the largest producer of oil and gas in the world overtaking Saudi Arabia and Russia in last six months according to a research from Bank More...
Suicide Bomber Kills Three At Checkpoint …As Military Uncover Female Wing Of Boko Haram, 3 Members Nabbed
The Defence Headquarters said a suicide bomber in a Golf car today crashed into a checkpoint killing himself, a Policeman and 3 Vigilante Youth members at Kodunga, Borno, even as the military authority said its More...
Insecurity: DIA Seeks Cooperation Of Foreign Mission
The Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) has solicited for the support and cooperation of foreign military mission in the country as part of the efforts towards tackling the current security challenges in Nigeria. The More...
Our Judiciary: The Intrigues Of Judgement And Justice
By Umana Nsikak Citizen Eseme Eyiboh, erstwhile member and Spokesperson of the House of Representatives of the Federal Republic. The Supreme Court judgment of July 7, 2012, affirming the supremacy of the party More...
Identification Card: Senate Slams Governor Okorocha, Urges Policy Reversal On Northerners In Imo
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. Imo State Governor Owelle Rochas Okorocha came under fire on the floor of the Senate Thursday over what lawmakers described as anti-north policy. The Senate in a stormy session specifically More...
Tension As Delegates Set To Debate C’ttee Report On State Creation
Intense lobby commenced Wednesday as delegates brace up to discuss the Report of the National Conference Committee on Political Restructuring and Form of Government, which recommends additional state for the south More...
NEXIM’s Support To Nigeria’s Non-oil Sectors Hits N40Billion, 24,139 Jobs Created -Orya
By Funmilayo Emmanuel, Abuja. The Nigerian Export-Import Bank Bank (NEXIM) said it has assisted the non-oil sector of the Nigeria economy to the tune of N40.217 billion within the last six years.The bank said on More...
Ministerial Nominees: Senate Confirms Shekarau, Others
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. The Senate has confirmed the appointment of former Governor of Kano, Mr. Ibrahim Shekarau as Minister of Federal Republic of Nigeria. The Senate on Wednesday also ratified the nomination More...
War On Terror: Defence Hqrts Visits Troops In Borno
By Ibrahim Imam, Kaduna. The Defence Headquarters has dispatched a team of senior officers to the troubled state of Borno, northeast Nigeria, to carry out a progress assessment of the ongoing counter terrorism campaign More...
CONFAB Endorses Scrapping Of SIEC …Approves First Degree Minimum Qualification For President, Governor, NASS, Others
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. The federal government have been urged to scrap the States Independent Electoral Commission (SIEC) and transfer its obligations to Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Delegates More...
ABCON Seeks Senate’s Intervention Over N35 million Capital Base Policy
The Association of Bureau De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON) Tuesday stormed the National Assembly to seek for intervention of Senate Committee on Finance over decision of Central Bank of Nigeria to raise More...
Senate Probes Alleged Move To Cede Nigeria Communities To Cameroon
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja. Fresh trouble may be brewing in the oil rich Bakassi region as the Senate on Tuesday raised alarm over an alleged attempt by Cameroon to annex Baneri, a village in Boki Local Government More...
Military Arrest Key Actor In Chibok Abduction, Says Suspect Is A Mole Within Civillian JTF
A terrorists’ intelligence cell headed by a businessman who participated actively in the abduction of School Girls in Chibok has been busted by troops, military spokesman says. The man, Babuji Ya’ari who is More...
