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Chief Bisi Akande, former Chairman of the All Progressives Congress on Wednesday recalled how two rival parties with the acronym, APC, emerged while the All Progressives Congress was in the process of being registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Akande, who handed over in Abuja to Chief John Odigie-Oyegun as the new national […]

President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed Mr. Olufemi Ajayi as the Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF). Ajayi’s appointment was communicated on Wednesday in a press release signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity matters, Reuben Abati. “The appointment is with immediate effect,” Abati stated in the release. […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Rivers State Chapter, has on Wednesday accused the state’s governor, Rotimi Amaechi as being responsible for the recent mass influx of suspected Boko Haram members into South-Southern and South-Eastern states of Nigeria, with his  consistent and unhidden revolutionary activities and series of calls and incitement for revolution against the Federal […]

Oando PLC, Nigeria’s leading indigenous energy group listed on both the Nigerian and Johannesburg Stock Exchange has received ministerial consent for its $1.65 billion acquisition of ConocoPhillips (COP) Nigerian assets.   In December 2012, Oando PLC through its Exploration and Production subsidiary Oando Energy Resources (OER), entered into an agreement with COP to acquire its […]

The Aare Musulimi of Yorubaland and popular Ibadan-based businessman, Abdulazeez Arisekola Alao, has died. Alao died on Tuesday at the age of 69 at a hospital in Switzerland. Sources within the family said he died after a battle with colon cancer. His remains are expected in Nigeria on Thursday to be interred according to Islamic rites. […]

The National Conference sitting in Abuja on Tuesday asked the Federal Government to ensure that every major airport in the country is linked to functional rail lines to boost easy access to airports across the country. Government was also asked to initiate and construct a rail line from Lagos to Enugu through Ore to ease […]

Yobe Police Command has confirmed that an explosion occured on Tuesday in Tsamiyan Lilo area of Damaturu. the state capital.   Mr Nansak Chewang, the command’s public relations officer, confirmed the incident.   “You know it happened just this night, we are yet to establish what happened and the details,” Chewang said.    

Seventy five inmates of the Kirikiri Minimum and Maximum Prisons were on Tuesday freed by the Chief Justice of Lagos State, Justice Ayotunde Phillips.   Fortune smiled on the beneficiaries of the gesture as they were release by Justice Phillips while on an inspection tour of the detention facilities ahead of her retirement.   Out […]

A terror kingpin has been detected among the wanted terrorists in the ongoing screening of some arrested 486 suspects.   Defence Headquarters (DHQ) made the revelation on Tuesday, saying the suspects were nabbed along Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway while travelling in over 33 Hiace Hummer buses on the night of15th June.   According to a statement […]

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed shock over a statement by the All Progressives Congress (APC) regarding the actual age of the newly elected APC National Youth Leader, Ibrahim Dasuki Jalo. There had been controversy over his true age with many Nigerians condemning the APC for electing a 56 year-old man for the position. The […]

Lagos-based lawyer, Festus Keyamo, was on Tuesday listed among the 23 lawyers being considered for the conferment of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) by the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee (LPPC). According to the LPPC statement containing the list, the committee therefore requested the public to comment on the integrity, reputation and competence of the proposed […]

The Police have begun an investigation into Sunday’s averted bombing of a Church in Owerri, Imo State. CSP Frank Mba, the force public relations officer, made the disclosure at a joint news conference organised by the National Information Centre, Abuja on Monday, where he cautioned members of the public not to hurriedly link the incident […]