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The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar says there is no cause for alarm over the Supreme Court’s ruling dismissing his claims to inspect the INEC server. Atiku, who addressed a news conference through his lead counsel, Eyitayo Jegede (SAN), after Tuesday’s proceedings, said the decision was anticipated and that proactive […]

Arrested kidnap suspect, Hamisu Wadume, Tuesday provided details of his initial arrest, and how the soldiers of the 93 Battalion Takum, Taraba State, aided his escape. In a video posted on verified Police twitter handle, Wadume, who spoke in Hausa, said when he was arrested, soldiers pursued the police team and opened fire on them. […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday told ministers-designate and other presidential appointees that there was a collective responsibility to improve the welfare of majority of Nigerians. Buhari gave this charge on Tuesday at the closing ceremony of the Presidential Retreat for Ministers-Designate, Presidential Aides and other top government functionaries at the State House Banquet Hall, Abuja. […]

The Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), aka Shiites, has disowned one Ibrahim Musa as its official spokesman. IMN affirmed that Musa is a supporter of the movement but not its official spokesman. “It (IMN) does not have any official spokesperson,” director, Sayyid Zakzaky’s office said on Tuesday. “So, therefore, we wish to announce that, one Mr. […]

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) has commended members of the pro-independence Biafra group for assaulting a Nigerian Senator, and former deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu. Ekweremadu was physically assaulted by some IPOB members in Nuremberg, Germany While many have condemned the attack on Ekweremadu, Kanu described it as a show of […]

The German government has deported a new batch of Nigerian migrants, less than 48 hours after the attack on former Deputy President of the Senate Ike Ekweremadu, by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). According to reports, the migrants left Frankfurt Airport on Monday morning, and were expected to land in Nigeria’s Murtala Mohammed International […]

Indigenes of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Monday failed in their bid to stop President Muhammadu Buhari from inuagurating the 43 ministerial nominees, following the refusal of the Federal High Court, Abuja to grant an order to that effect. Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court in a ruling on […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday challenged Ministers-designate to reflect and assess the country’s position in 2015 and now so as to chart a course for the country for the foreseeable future.The president gave the task when he declared open the two-day Presidential Retreat for Ministers-designate and Federal Permanent Secretaries at the State House conference hall, […]

Details from the final address by lawyers to President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC, revealed a spirited defence against the petition by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal describing it as a patent sham and lacking in merit. President Buhari was […]

PROTOCOLS: I welcome you all to this meeting whose purpose is firstly, to familiarize ourselves with our colleagues with whom we shall be working closely for the next four years GOD willing; secondly, to reflect and assess the country’s position in 2015 and today; and thirdly, to chart a course for the country for the […]

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has welcomed “the reported probe by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of the government of former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s $16 billion power project as an opportunity for the anti-graft agency to show that former heads of state and other high-ranking public officials are not immune from investigation […]

There is pain. There is anger. And there is collective rage in the land. Nigerians are empty of options and are seeking avenues for a purge; for catharsis. The season of retribution may be upon us sooner than we imagine.   The physical abuse of former deputy senate president Ike Ekweremadu at an Igbo forum […]