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The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said journalists in Nigeria have nothing to fear from the Nigerian government in the performance of their duties. “Under this dispensation, we have never even contemplated stifling the freedom of the media not to talk of hounding them to death,” the Minister said in Doha on […]

The Kano state executive committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has suspended party chairman, Umar Doguwa for being loyal to former Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso, barely 24 hours after Governor Abdullahi Ganduje expressed willingness to reconcile with his predecessor. Present at the meeting where the chairman was suspended were state party leaders as well as […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that If urgent steps are not taken, the electoral promise of the All Progressives Congress to build one million housing units in a year would not be achieved The President said this on Monday at the opening of the National Economic Council’s economic retreat held inside the old Banquet Hall […]

A governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo state, Senator Ehigie Uzamere on Monday resigned his membership of the PDP barely two weeks after the state congresses of the party. Senator Uzamere who was in the senate between 2007-2015, is the only senator from the Edo South senatorial district who had spent two […]

The Registrar and Bursar of Benue State University, Makurdi, Dr Timothy Utile and Mr Aondoakaa Kwaghfan, have been sacked. The decision to  sack the Bursar and Registrar  was taken after the duo were indicted by the report of a seven-man visitation panel set up by the state Governor, Samuel Ortom to review the activities of […]

The Management of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC has sympathised with the family of a Corps member, Okonta Dumebi Samuel (RV/15B/5539) who died in the re-run elections held in Rivers State on Saturday. Corps member Okonta Samuel, who until his demise served at GCSS Ukpeliede, was shot dead by some unknown gunmen in Ahoada West Local […]

      Workers of National Hospital, Abuja, have threatened to embark on an indefinite strike by noon on Sunday, if its management fails to meet their demands.   Acting under the aegis of Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU), the workers made this known in Abuja at the end of a three-day warning protest tagged: […]

    Senator Bukola Saraki and other senators arrived the court room around 9:55 am.  He immediately went to greet members of his legal team led by Kanu Agabi (SAN) .   Saraki’s lawyer also announced that the number of the lawyers to defend the Senate President may have increased to 80 as indicated by […]

Barely 48 hours to the election re-run into the Rivers State House of Assembly as well as the National Assembly, an Army Major and three other soldiers are said to have been killed in the state by gunmen. The soldiers were killed on Thursday in Abonnema, Akuku-Toru Local Government Area, according to the opposition All […]

A group, AMBSAM Memorial Foundation on Thursday said it would establish a life jacket manufacturing plant in honour of five persons who died in a boat mishap which occurred on 28th March  2015 in Epe area of Lagos State.‎The victims had met their tragic death while on an assignment to monitor the 2015 Presidential and […]

Minister of Transport and former governor of Rivers State has appealed to residents of the state to come out on Saturday to cast their votes in the election rerun for the House of Assembly and National Assembly, noting that President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed to ensure that the election was peaceful. In a broadcast to […]

There was tension in Ekiti State on Thursday as news filtered into Ado Ekiti, the State capital, that one of the four members of the State House of Assembly allegedly abducted by men of the Department of State Services (DSS), had died in custody. The lawmakers have spent days in custody after a raid and […]