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Ahead of the National convention of the former self-acclaimed biggest party in Africa, Nigeria’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is currently embroiled in crises in some states of the federation. Particularly, the party is not having it smooth in Benue State where former Governor Gabriel Suswam is having it hot with Senator David Mark, a former […]

Like a lingering, tiresome bad dream that refuses to go away, the mystery over the 219 girls abducted from their dormitories in Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State, on April 14, 2014 re-opened wounds of despair and haunted passions, after a video emerged showing 15 of the girls – the first concrete indication […]

The Lagos State Government has said it would henceforth strictly enforce the extant laws in the state especially those bordering on environmental offences and restriction of operation of commercial motorcycles, popularly called Okada, in certain routes as well as street trading. The government’s stand came following concerns on the increasing activities of the commercial motorcyclists […]

Archbishop of Abuja, Cardinal John Onaiyekan has criticised President Muhammadu Buhari for disregarding court orders, demanding the release of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu. He said: “There is no sign that Nigeria has the president. The problem President Buhari has is that many Nigerians want to continue as they were […]

The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, says Nigeria must not take loan facility from the International Monetary Fund to overcome its economic challenges. This is contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Saturday at the ongoing Spring Meetings of the IMF-World Bank in Washington DC while responding to why the government has refused […]

A former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba, has said that journalism is on the brink of extinction due to the advent of the new media.  Osoba, who is also a veteran journalist and former Managing Director of Daily Times said this on Saturday in Lagos at the 1st Quarterly National Executive Council (NEC) […]

Senator Peter Nwaobosi, Senator representing Delta North at the Nigerian Senate has not been in the news recently for the right reasons. The controversial Senator on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is the brain behind a bill aimed at reducing the powers of the Code of Conduct Bureau and the Code of […]

The National Centre for Women Development (NCWD), Abuja, has announced the death of its Acting Director-General, Alhaji Abdulmalik Dauda. Mr Mohammed Aliyu, Protocol Officer to the director-general, confirmed the news to www.www.aso.rocks search engine in Abuja. Aliyu said Dauda died on Friday in an auto crash along Abuja-Kaduna expressway while returning from an official assignment. […]

I read an interesting article recently in which the author, objecting to President Muhammadu Buhari’s frequent travels abroad pointed out that Presidential spokespersons since 1999, including this writer, have always justified such trips using essentially the same arguments. The fellow quoted copiously and derisively from my State House press statements and an article by me […]

Military authorities have opened a camp for repentant members of the Boko Haram Sect. The Acting Director, Defence Information, Col. Rabe Abubakar, told www.www.aso.rocks search engine on Saturday that the military authorities had not disclosed where the camp was located for security reasons. He said it was the expectations of the military that more members […]

The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, on Thursday in Benin, warned operatives of the Edo State‎ Police Command to avoid the practice of detaining people indefinitely to enable them shop for evidence to incriminate them. He also warned operatives of the Force against interfering in civil offences relating to land matters and the criminalisation […]

Justice Abdulkadir Abdu-Kafarati of Federal High Court has dismissed the fundamental rights suit filed by Senate President Bukola Saraki to stop his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal. Abdu-Kafarati who gave a judgement today dismissed the suit as an abuse of court process. The judge was scheduled to deliver judgment at noon. But he […]