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The Federal Government on Monday, appealed to the government of Indonesia to convert the death by firing  squad of some Nigerian prisoners in the country to life imprisonment. The government did not state the actual number of Nigerians facing this death sentence, but some of them had cried out from jail in the country after […]

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde  Fashola, has said the 2015 presidential election should not be about promises for a person like President Goodluck Jonathan who has been in the saddle for six years. Rather it should be about his achievements in the past six years, to warrant him being re-elected into office for another four […]

Seven governors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were in Lagos on Monday as part of their strategy to support the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming 2015 general elections, according to Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State. Though he did not mention the names of the […]

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said on Monday that it sanctioned 20 senior officers in the last two months carrying out acts considered illegal while on official duties. A statement by the Public Relations Officer of the Nigerian Customs Service, Wale Adeniyi, in Abuja, nine of the officers were suspended from service pending the outcome […]

The weekend press was, as usual very generous with its pages dealing with the Special Adviser to the President on Media, “my friend before, before” as we say in everyday parlance, Dr. Reuben Abati. Reuben was joined in the attack against General Muhammadu Buhari’s refusal, this time to attend presidential political debates, by his “cousin […]

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, Major General Mohammadu Buhari (rtd) no longer have moral rights to participate in the 28th March presidential election having lied to Nigerians on several occasions. According to a press statement issued in Ado-Ekiti by his Special Assistant […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as too little, too late; the recent election-propelled acts of governance by President Goodluck Jonathan to convince Nigerians to vote for him and his party in the forthcoming polls. “Mr. President, you cannot undo, in six weeks, the glaring instances of cluelessness, incompetence and near total lack of […]

As calculations for the 2015 presidential elections draw closer, President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday held a close-door meeting with former Head of State, General Abdusalami Abubakar, and a former South African President, Thabo Mbeki. The meeting which held inside the President’s official residence at the Presidential Villa in Abuja also had some top officials of […]

The spokesperson of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani-Kayode and Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State on Sunday evening engaged themselves in a war of words over issues relating to insecurity in the North-eastern part of Nigeria. Fani-Kayode had replied an earlier statement by the All Progressives Congress (APC) slamming President Goodluck Jonathan for […]

The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) on Sunday evening said it was satisfied with the success achieved by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the use of the card reader machines to conduct a mock election in some parts of the country on Saturday. CNPP’s Osita Okechukwu, however said INEC must watch out […]

Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has declared that the northern part of Nigeria is being deceived by the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Okupe expressed belief that Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the APC, would not be able to re-contest […]

It was a bloody Saturday for residents and the government of Borno State as three suicide attacks in different parts of the State capital, Maiduguri, killed 58 residents and injured146 others. The Commissioner of Police Borno in the State, Clement Adoda, gave the figure, but witnesses said the figure could be more than what was […]