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The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has has threatened to declare vacant the seat of the Reps who defected to All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday.  The threat was issued in a statement signed by the Secretary of the BoT, Chief Ojo Maduekwe. Madueke said in the statement that there […]

Former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Mr. Mohammed Barkindo has been announced as the new Secretary-General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Barkindo who served in NNPC from from 2009 to 2010 was nominated by the Federal Government for the position, and was chosen at the 13-member oil […]

The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), Thursday, demanded the immediate resignation of state governors who have not been able to pay worker wages despite the bail out they received from the Federal Government. Bobboi Bala Kaigama, the president of the Congress, made this demand while speaking at the 10th Triennial Delegates Conference of the […]

The Federal Government of Nigeria has formerly launched the clean-up of oil spills in Ogoni land, Rivers State, Nigeria, as recommended in the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report.  The clean-up which would cost at least $1billion, was formally flagged off on Thursday by  President Muhammadu Buhari who was represented at the event by Vice […]

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday said he has never described as illegal, the 2013 privatisation process for power generation and distribution companies of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN).  He said the newspaper report which attributed the statement to him was not factual. According to a […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s open criticism of Justice Mohammed Idris of a Federal High Court in Lagos has been described as  inappropriate by Mr Kolawole Olaniyan the Legal Adviser, International Secretariat of Amnesty International (AI), London. Olaniyan in a statement on Thursday, said that Obasanjo’s criticism of the judge was not only an attack on […]Read More

Presiding Judge of the Abuja division of the Court of Appeal, Justice Abdul Aboki, on Thursday adjourned hearing on the trial of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki till 18th July. Saraki had filed an application before the court contending with the jurisdiction of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) to preside over his matter. The […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has cancelled his widely publicised trip to the Niger Delta to inaugurate the clean up of Ogoni land, Rivers State, an inside source has said. According to www.www.aso.rocks search engine’s investigation, President Buhari has asked Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to represent him at the official launch of the clean up of the […]Read More

The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has slammed President Muhammadu Buhari over the killing of more than 30 Igbo protesters, who were mainly members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB). Govenor Fayose while condemning the Monday attack accused the president of turning the […]

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has banned the operations of motorcycles and tricycles in Gokana and Khana Local Government Areas of the state between 6 am and 6pm on Thursday. This is in preparation of the visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to Rivers State to flag off the implementation of the UNEP Report, Wike said. […]

Former governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam has has denied a report by an online news portal  accusing him of bribing the presiding judge in the corruption case brought against him the EFCC. The angered Suswam in a statement he personally signed said the report was a deliberate attempt to blackmail him as well subvert […]

The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) formally took over the party’s national secretariat Wednesday, promising that it would do everything to ensure that normalcy returns to the party as soon as possible. BOT chairman, Senator Walid Jibrin, led the members with the secretary, Ambassador Ojo Maduekwe, Dan Sulaiman, former Deputy […]