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President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria has congratulated his South African counterpart President Jacob Zuma, and his party, African National Congress (ANC) on their resounding victory in the South African general elections. Jonathan sent his congratulatory message on Saturday, following ANC’s victory, with over 60 percent of the votes cast in the election to the South […]

Amnesty International has said despite the warnings on a possible raid on the Government Girls College, Chibok, Borno State more than four hours before the assault, no reinforcements were sent to the town. The assault included the abduction of more than 240 schoolgirls, which the international body called a war crime saying many of the […]

The Chairman House Committee on Information, Strategy, Security and Publicity of Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon Segun Olulade has reassured Lagosians that Lagos State, in spite of its vast population has been among the safest place to live in Nigeria and is still a safe place despite the security challenges the nation is facing. […]

Earlier in the week, former Governor of Ekiti State, Segun Oni, declared he was leaving the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC) and that he would do his best to support the incumbent governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, to win the governorship election which will hold on 21st June this year. Oni, […]

Sheraton Hotels and Towers located in Lagos, Nigeria is not taking the United States warning of 2nd May that insurgents are targeting the hotel as a mere statement. The authority of the hotel has started fortifying its security system against any possible plot, strengthening surveillance of the environment to ensure safety of its guests. Making […]

Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday, flagged off the state’s Water Transport Safety Awareness Programme with the distribution of 2000 life jackets to commercial water transport operators. The governor appealed to operators and patrons of water transportation to always insist on using life jackets when onboard. Recall that some water commuters had died recently […]

National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) General Muhammadu Buhari, has expressed happiness over President Goodluck Jonathan’s acceptance of help from the international community in the effort to rescue the over 234 girls that were abducted by the Boko Haram insurgents in Chibok, Borno State more than three weeks ago. In a message he […]

With the governorship election in Osun state drawing near, a former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Fatai Akinbade, has declared his intention to run, not under the PDP which has presented Iyoola Omisore, but under the Labour Party (LP) Declaring his intention on Thursday in Osogbo, the state capital, Akinbade, […]

In an attempt to, at least, reduce the ridicule that has followed the inability of the Nigerian military to stem the excesses of the Boko Haram insurgents terrorising the country, Defence Headquarters on Thursday boasted that it was fortified enough and has the capacity to fight the insurgents and rescue the over 234 girls abducted […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday, told Justice Adebisi Akinlade of the Lagos High Court, Igbosere, that Abdullahi Alao and his company, Axenergy Limited, who are facing trial over a N2.6billion oil subsidy fraud, manipulated the product supply chain and a bill of laden presented to the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, […]

As terrorism continues to take its toll on Nigeria, the All Progressives Congress (APC) is currently questioning the whereabouts of the huge budgetary allocation earmarked for security by President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. The party has therefore, called on the National Assembly to urgently initiate a probe into how funds allocated to the Military have been […]

I watched Mrs Jonathan’s meeting on Channels TV and came away with more than mixed feelings.  As I watched this important gathering that Mrs Jonathan had pulled together on the back of lack of results in the case of the abducted school girls of Chibok in Borno State, my immediate impression was that, chai, with […]