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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said it will press on with its ongoing industrial action while the Federal Government makes the money required to fulfil its obligation to tertiary education in the country.  Immediate past Chairman of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka branch of ASUU, Prof. Aloysius Okolie made the assertion in […]

The eight-man Judicial Commission of Inquiry inaugurated by Governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Amaechi to investigate the crisis in the House of Assembly has been nullified by a Port Harcourt High Court presided over by Justice Lamenkara Iyaye. In addition to ruling that the commission is unconstitutional, the court restrained its members from sitting to […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has registered two new political parties in accordance with the provisions of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as Amended) and the Electoral Act 2010 (as Amended). According to a statement released by Secretary to the Commission, Mrs. A. C. Ogakwu, the newly registered parties are […]

Deputy Speaker of the Jigawa State House of Assembly, Inuwa Sule Udi, is dead.Udi died in Kano on Thursday night while travelling to Ringim, Jigawa, his home state.  It was learnt that the car conveying the 52-year-old was involved in an accident in Jogana Village along Kano-Hadejia Road.The late Udi had been a lawmaker in the state, […]

Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, may have been nursing the dream of dumping the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) a second time. Just like previously when he teamed up with former Governor Bola Tinubu of Lagos to form the defunct Action Congress (AC), he may be coming up with a new party, the Peoples Democratic […]

The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State and the camp of Governor of the state, Rotimi Amaechi on Thursday continued their war of words over the political lockdown in the state. While the state chapter of the party accused the governor of foisting on the public a false notion of insecurity […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is now in possession of 20 million permanent voter’s cards for 2015 general elections, its resident electoral commission in charge of Akwa Ibom State, Mr Gabriel Ada said on Thursday. Speaking in Uyo at a stakeholders meeting organised by the commission, Ada observed that the voters’ card would gradually […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said its governors are not against autonomy for local governments, as reported in a section of the media on Thursday, describing such reports as a gross misrepresentation of the governors’ position on the issue. In a statement issued in Oro, Kwara State, on Thursday by its Interim National Publicity […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday denied ever confirming that former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar and some other Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors had applied for registration of a new party to be named Peoples Progressive Movement (PPM).  In a letter dated Thursday 15th August 2013 and addressed to Editor of Daily Independent […]

The military on Wednesday announced that it had killed the second-in-command of the Boko Haram sect saying this was achieved while its officials repelled an insurgent attack earlier this month. A statement by the military said there had been a bounty of 25 million naira ($156,000, 117,000 euros) on the head of Momodu Bama, who […]

Minister of State for Education, Mr. Nyesome Wike is a threat to democracy and should be sacked for his utterances which border on breaching peace, incitement and partisan campaign, Rivers State chapter of the National Councillors Forum of Nigeria, said on Wednesday. In a release issued in Port Harcourt and co-signed by Chairman of the group, Hon. […]

The ongoing nationwide industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may not end soon, as Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. (Mrs.) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has said that the Federal Government does not have the resources to meet the union’s financial demands.  The minister disclosed this on Tuesday while speaking at the annual meeting […]Read More