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The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) on Thursday commended President Goodluck Jonathan for the approval of the forensic audit of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Accounts (NNPC) over the missing $20 billion. The Presidency announced the approval for a forensic audit of the agency in a statement issued by Special Adviser to the President on […]

President Goodluck Jonathan has made “updates, changes and adjustments” to the full list of participants for the national conference he earlier released last week. Confirming the modifications in a statement he released in Abuja on Thirsday, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pius Anyim said they are as follows: Elder Statesmen Dr. Kunle Olajide from Ekiti State replaces Chief Afe Babalola, […]Read More

My attention has been drawn to a letter sent to President Jonathan by the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) on 24 February, 2014, titled, “MR. PRESIDENT, CALL GOVERNOR SUSWAM TO ORDER NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.” As much as the title of the letter is threatening enough, the content is much […]

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the extension of the closing date for the sale of application documents for the Computer Based Test (CBT) to Monday, 31st March 2014. According to a statement signed in Abuja by Public Relations Officer of JAMB, Mr. Fabian Benjamin, the extension is to afford for more […]

Chief Inengite Nitabai, the abducted cousin of President Goodluck Jonathan has been freed, according Bayelsa State Commissioner of Police, Hilary Okpara. The 70-year-old was kidnapped by gunmen numbering about 10, who broke into his house in Otuoke, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. The armed men laid siege on the sprawling compound located just […]

Officials of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) have put the casualty figure in the boat mishap that happened on Tuesday night in Lagos at 13, while only five survived. The 18 residents of the state were part of 23 passengers who were being transported on a boat from 6th Avenue to 4th Avenue in the FESTAC area of […]

The Fedeal Government on Wednesday challenged suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi to defend himself against the allegations raised against him by the report of the Financial reporting Council of Nigeria (FRCN). Addressing State House correspondents on Wednesday, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. […]

The battle for supremacy between National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuki and newly sworn-in Minister of Defence, General Aliyu Gasau may have led to the  alleged exit of the latter, exactly a week after his swearing-in. Although the Army, Navy and Air Force are supervised by the Ministry of Defence, which is headed by […]

President Goodluck Jonathan is currently holding a closed-door meeting with select governors from the South West zone of the country. Chief of Staff to the President, Brigadier-General Jones Oladeinde Arogbofa (rtd) led Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola; Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola; and Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi to the president’s office some minutes after […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has again called on President Goodluck Jonathan to take time off his “premature electioneering campaign” to visit Yobe State to commiserate with the bereaved families of the innocent school children who were brutally murdered by terrorists last month. In a statement issued in Lagos on Monday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, […]

As promised recently, President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday unveiled the 2nd Niger Bridge in Onitsha, Anambra State. The bridge will be completed at a total cost of N117 billion, according to information available to www.www.aso.rocks search engine. According to the president, the Federal Government will not be fully responsible for the funding of the project, but the bridge […]Read More

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said the Peoples Democratic Party’s  reference to the recently unveiled APC roadmap as a product of “Janjaweed Ideology” is a thinly-veiled religious blackmail, which is in furtherance of PDP’s ongoing campaign to pigeon-hole the APC as an Islamic party, rather than engage in an informed critique of the roadmap. […]