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lorin, Kwara State received a mammoth crowd on Wednesday when the incumbent Governor of the state on the platform of the  All Progressives Congress (APC),  Abdulfatah Ahmed declared his intention to run for a second term in office. In their thousands, APC supporters including the newest convert,the Honorable Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu […]

As the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) commences the issuance of Permanent Voter Cards to registered voters in some South-western states of Nigeria, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos on Wednesday raised alarm over information that 1,447,845 names of such registered voters in his state were missing from the voters’ register. Fashola, in a broadcast, wondered […]

As we prepare for the 2015 general elections, in which the president, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is certain to contest for consolidation of his wonderful achievements, it is pertinent to brainstorm the possibility of having Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State as his running mate in view of his tremendous sacrifice in the People’s Democratic […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that the 2015 presidential election will take place in February. However, Nigeria’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the main opposition party, the All Progressives Party (APC) has yet to conduct their primaries — during which their presidential candidates will be nominated and approved to contest the […]

Nigeria’s President, Goodluck Jonathan will travel to Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso on Wednesday as a member of the three-man delegation of Heads of State and Government raised by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to facilitate the rapid resolution of the current political crisis in the country, the presidency has announced. […]

The supremacy battle between Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State and his predecessor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, over who makes appointments into the Local Government Areas and the Local Council Development Areas was on Tuesday laid to rest when the latter bowed to pressure from the Governor’s Advisory Council, a decision making body consisting of Tinubu, […]

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Tuesday attended the fifth anniversary of the relaunch of uniformed Voluntary Clubs in public schools, stating that the objective of the administration is to build the infrastructure of the mind in the young ones. The governor who spoke at the Police College, Ikeja where selected members of the […]

A group loyal to Atiku Abubakar, the former vice president of Nigeria, the Turaki Vanguard has spoken out against a disparaging statement credited to the Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, saying such a statementis tantamount to maligning the former vice president. The group said on Tuesday, in a statement signed […]

Acting Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Enugu State chapter, Elder David Aja has appealed to the party’s national chairman, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu to call the state Governor Sullivan Chime to order. The appeal was contained in a petition writing by Aja to Mu’azu, urging the national chairman to use his office to prevent Chime […]Read More

Mubi, the second largest town in Adamawa State has now been renamed Madinatul Islam by the Boko Haram Islamic sect which captured the town last week after a bloody attack that caused many of the residents in the state to flee. It was also learnt that the sect had since after making the town its […]

Suleiman Abba, the acting inspector-General of Police, was Tuesday confirmed by the Council of State to take the full robe of the Nigerian Inspector-General of Police. His elevation is coming amid controversy trailing his withdrawal of security aides of the Speaker of the country’s House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, after the latter defected from the […]

An Abuja Federal High Court has ruled that nothing has changed in the leadership of the House of Representatives, emphasising especially that Aminu Tambuwal remains the Speaker. Issuing the ruling on Monday, the court also said that Tambuwal could not be removed and that the House could not reconvene until the date it was adjourned […]