Southern Kaduna Killings: CAN Blasts Buhari, Says His Silence Smacks Complicity
By Jackson Udeani – The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Friday expressed disappointment over what it described as President Muhammadu Buhari’s “silence in the ongoing genocide” in southern Kaduna, More...
Abia’s New Speaker Resigns, Chikwendu Kalu, Emerges As Replacement
AMUAHIA/By Jackson Udeani – Less than 24 hours after his emergence as Speaker of Abia State House of Assembly, Kennedy Njoku, has resigned his appointment to pave way for the election of Chikwendu Kalu as More...
Kupolokun Heads Ondo Transition Committee
AKURE/By Nuel Suji – Ondo State Governor-elect, Rotimi Akeredolu has appointed a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Funsho Kupolokun as the chairman of his More...
Boko Haram Fighters Are Infiltrating Communities -Deputy Gov. Cries Out
By Tom Garba, Yola – The Adamawa State Government has raised alarm over a development in which fighters of the Boko Haram who are on the run from Sambisa forest are now infiltrating some communities in the More...
Defence Hqtrs Says No Foreigner Was Arrested, As It Clears Sambisa Forest –
By Ibrahim Imam – The Defence headquarters has denied reports that foreign fighters were arrested during its final battle to clear the Boko Haram insurgents’ stronghold in Sambisa forest. Some media, especially More...
Arik Faults NCAA Over N6million Fine
By Sadiq Umar – Nigeria’s largest Airline operator, Arik Air, on Wednesday faulted what it called “unprofessional” act of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), in levying a N6million fine against More...
Black American Billionaire Pledges Scholarship For Chibok Girls
By Dipo Awojobi – A black American billionaire, Robert Smith, has volunteered to sponsor the education of 24 girls from Chibok Community, including the 21 recently rescued Chibok schoolgirls. The beneficiaries More...
I Could’ve Defeated Trump, Says Obama
By Dipo Awojobi – Outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama said he could have defeated Republican Donald Trump in the November 8 presidential election if he had run against him. Obama told his former senior adviser More...
Fayose: Your Mouth May Land You In Jail, Says Prophet Who Predicts T.B Joshua ‘II Die In 2017
By Dipo Awojobi – A Lagos prophet, Olagorioye Faleyimu has warned Ekiti governor Ayodele Fayose to watch his utterances or he would land in jail in the coming year. Dr. Faleyimu who is the founder of Mountain More...
Arase Writes IGP, Says Abubakar, Abba Also Left With “Vehicular Entitlements”
By Dipo Awojobi – The immediate past Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, has advised his successor, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, to avoid engaging in acts that could bring any past occupant of that office to More...
Our Christmas Wish List
President Nigerian Guild of Editors By Funk Egbemode I was all set to write something hard and political until Maupe Ogun reviewed my back page in New Telegraph on Channels and reminded me on live television to More...
Russian Military Plane Disappears From Radar With Dozens On Board
A Russian Defence Ministry flight carrying dozens of people has vanished from the radar screens after departing from the resort city of Sochi, Russian media reported on Sunday, citing preliminary findings. A total More...
Nigerian Breweries, Kara Market On Fire
By Dipo Awojobi – There was a fire outbreak today at the empty bottle compound of the Lagos plant of Nigerian Breweries Plc in Iganmu, Lagos. According to the Corporate Affairs Adviser, Nigerian breweries, More...
Army Raises Alarm About Boko Haram Member’s Escape To Towns
By Sadiq Umar – The Nigerian Army says some terrorists have escaped their base in Sambisa forest in Borno State to various parts of the country. Even as reports said 80 percent of the forest which has been More...
Fayose Gives 22 “Predictions” For 2017, Says A Former Head Of State May Die
By Dipo Awojobi – Just as he did in 2015, when he predicted 20 things that will be experienced in 2016, Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, has once again predicted about 22 things that would happen in More...
DSS Accuses Wike, Saraki’s Aide Of Plot To Distabilise Abuja, It’s Not True, Says Rivers Governor
By Sadiq Umar – The Department of State Services (DSS) has raised an alarm over an alleged plot to cause mayhem and a complete breakdown of law and order in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The DSS, Thursday More...
FG Declares 3-Days Public Holiday For Christmas, New Year
By Nuel Suji – The Federal Government (FG) has declared Monday December 26 and Tuesday 27, 2016 as Public Holidays to mark this year’s Christmas and Boxing Day respectively. Similarly, Monday, January 2, More...
Ibori Freed From UK Prison, Holds Thanksgiving Session
By Sadiq Umar – Following his release from jail in the United Kingdom, the former Delta State Governor, James Onanafe has held a thanksgiving session in his London home. Mr. Ibori who has spent 6years of More...
Senate’s Rejection Of Ibrahim Magu Is Official, Says Senate Spokesman
By Nuel Suji – The Senate on Tuesday reaffirmed its decision rejecting the nomination of the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, saying it remains the official More...
Firms Signs $150m Joint Dev Agreement For Solar Energy Production In Jigawa
By Nuel Suji – A solar energy firm, Nova Scotia has signed a deal to produce 200,000megawatt per year of electricity to help Nigeria increase its generation capacity. The investment in solar energy plant is More...
Buhari Orders Probe Of SGF, Babachir Lawal
By Sadiq Umar – President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered investigation into accusations of wrongdoing leveled against the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal. Secretary to the More...
Supreme Court Judgement: Prayers Can Move Mountains Says Bindow
By Dan Garba – The Governor of Adamawa state, Senator Muhammadu Jibrilla Bindow said weekend in Yola that it is the prayers of Adamawa people that made Supreme Court to dismiss the legal battle over governorship More...
PMB At 74: Peace Shuttle In Birthday Week
By Femi Adesina What a helluva week for a man who turns 74 today. In one day, in his birthday week, he flew from Abuja to Monrovia, from there to Freetown, and then to Banjul, in The Gambia. He held meetings lasting More...
National Judicial Council Dismisses Judge, Compulsorily Retires Another
By Dipo Awojobi – The National Judicial Council of Nigeria, NJC, has recommended the dismissal of Justice Ugbo Ononogbo of the Abia State High Court of Justice, even as it approved the immediate compulsory More...
Why Senate Rejects Magu As Substantive EFCC Chairman
By Sadiq Umar – The Senate on Thursday rejected the nomination Ibrahim Magu as Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), citing security reports as reason for its decision. Mr. Magu More...
Presidency Pledges Payment Of Super Falcons’ Allowances Within 48-Hours
By Sadiq Umar – At last, respite may have come the way of the Super Falcon following a firm promise by the Presidency to pay their $25,000 allowance after Wednesday morning protest. The players had converged More...
Pay More Attention To Inmates’ Achievements, Prison Boss Charges Info. Officers
By Nuel Suji – The Controller General of the Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS), Ja’afaru Ahmed has charged information officers of the Service to pay greater attention to the exploits of inmates in education, More...
For The Record: President Buhari’s 2017 Budget Address To The Joint Session Of National Assembly
It is my pleasure to present the 2017 Budget Proposals to this distinguished Joint Assembly: the Budget of Recovery and Growth. We propose that the implementation of the Budget will be based on our Economic Recovery More...
President Buhari Presents N7.298trn 2017 Budget To National Assembly
By Dipo Awojobi – President Muhammadu Buhari has presented the 2017 appropriation bill to the National Assembly. Buhari laying the 2016 budget proposal on the table at a joint session of National Assembly. The More...
EFCC To Appeal Court Judgment On Fayose’s Accounts
By Dipo Awojobi – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday faulted an order by a Federal High Court asking it to defreeze the bank accounts of Gov. Ayo Fayose of Ekiti. The court sitting More...
Bindow Flags Off Construction Of UNHCR’s 100 Housing Units For IDPs
YOLA/By Dan Garba – Adamawa State Governor, Muhammad Jibrilla Bindow has on Monday flag off the construction of 100 housing estate for the internally displaced persons in the state. Governor of Adamawa The More...
Why We Want Pension For Speaker, Deputy Speaker -Lagos Lawmaker
LAGOS/By Dipo Awojobi – A Lagos State House of Assembly lawmaker, Hon. Tunde Braimoh has defended the proposal for pension for Speaker and Deputy Speaker, saying the law was meant to take care of the leaders More...
Buhari’s Waning Popularity ‘ll Put APC Under Pressure In 2017 – Report
By Sadiq Umar – President Muhammadu Buhari’s rising unpopularity will place the All Progressive Congress (APC) under increasing pressure and without a bounce in the oil price, fiscal and sovereign risks More...
Breaking: MMM Freezes Accounts Of Nigerian Participants
By Dipo Awojobi – The hope of Nigerians planning to draw cash for the Yuletide celebrations from the Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox (MMM) scheme, may have been dashed as the alleged Ponzi scheme has frozen accounts More...
2017 Budget ‘ll Bring Back Prosperity To Our Nation, Buhari Assures Nigerians
By Sadiq Umar – President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that the 2017 Budget proposals will contain measures that would return Nigeria to the path of economic prosperity. Mr. Buhari gave the assurance More...
Congratulate Me Now, Abe Tells Wike
By Nuel Suji – Senator-elect for the Rivers East senatorial district, Magnus Abe, has called on the State Governor, Nyesom Wike to accept the result of the last Saturday re-run elections by congratulating More...
UPDATE: Madagali Council Chairman Calls For Urgent Rescue Action
By Dan Garba,Yola – The Adamawa State Police Command on Friday confirmed the incidence of twin bomb blasts that rocked Madagali central market in which scores of persons were reportedly killed, just as the More...
Rivers Re-Run: Lagos Lawmaker Urges Politicians To Embrace Peace
By Dipo Awojobi – A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos, Hon. Victor Akande on Friday appealed to politicians in Rivers to remember poor masses and prevent violence on Saturday’s More...
Self-Employment: 13, 000 Sellers Participate In Jumia Black Friday Sales
By Nuel Suji – Over 13,000 sellers on the Jumia platform on Friday participated in 2016 Jumia Black Friday annual sales with sellers offering up to 70% discounts. The sellers, sales agents and community of More...
BREAKING: Scores Feared Dead As Twin Blasts Hit Adamawa
By Dipo Awojobi – Twin explosions have hit Madagali in Adamawa State, with scores feared dead, witnesses said Friday. The attack occurred at a busy market early Friday. Details of casualties are still expected. Madagali More...
Senate Reschedules Screening, Confirmation Of EFCC Chairman To Dec. 15
By Sadiq Umar – The Senate has postponed the screening and confirmation of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu, to December15. The shift from December 8 More...
Senate ‘ll Pass Petroleum Industry Bill In Tranches, Saraki Assures
By Nuel Suji – President of the Senate Bukola Saraki on Wednesday said that National Assembly would pass the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) in tranches as a way out of its non-passage for the past eight years. Mr. More...
Buhari Inaugurates INEC Commissioners
By Sadiq Umar – President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated six National Electoral Commissioners, each representing the existing geo-political zones for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). INEC More...
40 Passengers Feared Dead In Pakistan Plane Crash
By Dipo Awojobi – A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight with more than 40 people on board has crashed in the north of the country. Flight PK-661 “lost contact with the control tower on its way from More...
Ethic Nationalities Forum Protests Against Prosecution Of Ex-President Jonathan’s Family
By Nuel Suji – A group under the auspices of Coalition of Ethic Nationalities on Wednesday kicked against what it termed the “persecution of former first Lady, Patience Jonathan by the Economic and More...
Stop Making Expensive Demand, Buhari Tells Nigerian Elite
By Sadiq Umar – President Muhammadu Buhari has called on the Nigerian elite to stop insisting that things should be done the ‘old way’, which impoverished the nation. Mr. Buhari said his administration More...
On Louis Odion’s Poorly Executed Hatchet Job On Governor Mimiko
By Imefv Efuda The piece by Louis Odion is emblematic of the new low to which journalism has fallen in Nigeria. This is a piece penned by a senior journalist who, evidently bereft of facts, decided to regale More...
Police Arrest Suspected Kidnappers Who Murdered Dangote Employee
By Dipo Awojobi – The Nigerian police said they have arrested three of the kidnappers who murdered one of the employees of Dangote Group and kidnapped five other expatiates of the conglomerate. The police More...
Ghanaians Are Fully Ready For December 7 Elections, Says ECOWAS Observer, Abatemi-Usman
By Nuel Suji – A member of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) observer mission to the 2016 general elections of Ghana holding on December 7, Senator Nurudeen Abatemi-Usman, has said that More...
Soyinka To Hold Private Funeral On Trump’s Inauguration Day
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, says he will hold a private funeral on January 20 when United States President-elect, Donald Trump, is inaugurated as President to mark the death of Nigeria’s common sense. Soyinka, More...
Ambode Mourns Kuforiji-Olubi, First Female ICAN President
By Dipo Awojobi – Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Sunday expressed shock and sadness over the death of foremost accountant and a former Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Bola Kuforiji-Olubi. Dr. More...
Don’t Blame Me For Your Frustration, Farida Tells Ribadu
By Dipo Awojobi – Ex-chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mrs Farida Waziri has cautioned the defeated 2015 governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Adamawa More...
NYSC DG Orders Investigation Into Death Of Corps Members
By Dipo Awojobi – The DG of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Sule Z Kazaure, has set up a high-powered committee to investigate the immediate and remote causes of the death of three Corps members, More...
Dangote’s Liaison With Kidnappers Murdered, Body Dumped In Gutter
By Dipo Awojobi – Istifanus Bello Gurama, a senior strategist with Dangote Industries Limited, who was reportedly kidnapped three weeks ago, has been murdered. Security sources said Gurama’s body was found More...
Sanusi Goofed On CBN, FG Borrowing Claim, Says Presidency
By Sadiq Umar – The Presidency has dismissed claims by the former Central Bank Governor and Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi that the federal government has violated the CBN Act through illegal fund sourcing, More...
Sacking Of Over 200 Staff Of Federal University Dutsinma: Matters Arising
By Jacob Onjewu Dickson The unity of Nigeria is non-negotiable as the country must remain one indivisible country and progress on that threshold to become a world power in the future. That is the belief of majority More...
