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The bid of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to prosecute Managing Director of Capital Oil and Gas Limited, Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah and his company for alleged involvement in petroleum subsidy fraud was scuppered on Thursday, as a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja overruled the commission’s recent invitation to Ubah and others. The […]

An FCT high court might have compounded the woes of the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, with an order restraining it from proceeding with its planned Special convention pending the determination of a suit filed by three former officials of the party. Justice Suleiman Belgore gave the order Thursday directing the ruling Party to “allow sanity to […]

Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has accused the Presidency of being too clever by half for claiming that the ongoing Rivers crisis is not a threat to the country’s democracy, saying the crisis is not just a threat to the nation’s democracy but also to the peaceful co-existence of its people. In a statement issued […]

Deputy Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon. Leyii Kwanee has spoken against the summoning of Leader of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon. Chidi Lloyd by the Force Headquarters while some of the legislators who were equally involved in the brigandage have been overlooked. Speaking to newsmen in Port Harcourt, Kwanee […]

President of the Senate, David Mark has revealed that members of the upper legislative chamber were actually blackmailed into voting favourably for the contentious early marriage law. Deputy President and Chairman of Committee on Constitution Amendment, Ike Ekweremadu on Tuesday had earlier defended senators against the allegation that they approved an early marriage law, saying […]

National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has declared that Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State has joined the opposition party in principle and is only still in the PDP to ensure that the party becomes extinct. The party chairman also warned the governor to be wary of his utterances, which show him as […]

The Nigeria Police Force has dismissed a Corporal Amadi Idahosa over the death of a final year student of the University of Benin, Ibrahim Momodu. Amadi, whose dismissal was announced after an orderly room trial and will now face prosecution at the law court, was an orderly to Chief Superintendent of Police and Divisional Police […]

Nigeria’s Minister of State for Health, Dr. Muhammed Pate voluntarily resigned his appointed from President Goodluck Jonathan’s cabinet to take up appointment with a university’s institute in the United States of America.  While some are beginning to see the resignation as a pointer that the ex-minister had lost hope in the country in the face […]

Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Political Matters, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, has warned the five northern state governors believed to be supporters of Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi that they will not succeed in their plot to oust the president.  Governors Sule Lamido, Rabiu Kwankwaso, Aliyu Wamakko, Mua’zu Babangida Aliyu and Murtala Nyako […]

Former Governor of Bayelsa State, Mr. Timipre Sylva and his successor, Mr. Seriake Dickson have continued their public war of words, this time over non-payment of pensions to retirees in the state for five years.  On Monday, Sylva had criticised the administration of the current governor for its string of “failures” that ordinarily should warrant the […]

Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi has escaped what would have been an eye-catching student protest against him in London. Seeing that the governor is to deliver a paper at the Chatham House on Reform and Resource Governance, some politicians loyal to his opponents recently visited a hospitalised member of the Rivers State House of […]

President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor has expressed worries over the Nigerian Senate’s passage of a resolution to amend the provision of Section 29 (4) (b) of the 1999 constitution, which states that, “any woman who is married shall be deemed to be of full age.” In a release issued […]