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The National Judicial Council (NJC) has indicted former Chief Judge of Federal Capital Territory High Court, Justice Lawal Gummi who is the current Emir of Gummi, Zamfara State of gross misconduct while in the office. Justice Gummi resigned the position of Chief Judge, FCT following his appointment as Emir of Gummi after the death of […]

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has urged Nigerians to hold President Goodluck Jonathan responsible if the country slides into anarchy as a result of the worsening crisis in Rivers State. Reacting to the attack on the four governors who visited Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, the party said in […]

In what is being touted as a systematic clampdown on loyalists and the remaining security details of embattled Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi who is believed to persecuted by President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience, Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Abubakar has summoned Majority Leader of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Honourable […]

Attorney-General and Minister of Justice (AGF) of the Federation, Mohammed Adoke has denied any wrong doing in the settlement of the dispute surrounding the Malabu oil deal. Rather, Adoke has claimed that the report of the Federal House of Representatives Committee on the Transaction Involving the Federal Government and Shell/Agip Companies and Malabu Oil and […]

The sour relationship between President Goodluck Jonathan and Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State is festering even further as governors from four northern states who were embarrassed and held hostage on Tuesday by protesters at the Port Harcourt Airport, Rivers State, when they visited Governor Rotimi Amaechi on a solidarity visit have asked Inspector-General, Mohammed […]

Earlier today we broke the story of how four pro Amaechi governors were prevented from leaving Port Harcourt International Airport by armed miscreants backed by the Presidency and the PDP. Excerpt of a press release issued by Ibim Semenitari, Rivers State Commissioner of Information and Communications revealed that sponsored thugs had a four litre keg […]

Despite several denials, the Presidency on Tuesday resumed its interference in Rivers State politics. Jittery over the scheduled solidarity visit of four PDP governors to Rivers State, the Presidency in cahoots with the state chapter of the People Democratic Party, with Nyeson Wike as arrow head have mobilized miscreant to disrupt the visit. Eyewitnesses reveal […]

Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal has assured that assets seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) would be properly managed. According to Tambuwal, who was speaking at a three-day investigative hearing organised by the Committee on Drugs, Narcotics and Financial Crimes to evaluate the status of assets seized […]

Despite being fingered as the mastermind of last week`s chaos that engulfed the River State House of Assembly, First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, Monday, appealed to the feuding parties to apply restraint  quickly and find ways to resolve all political differences. In a statement issued by her Special Assistant on Media, Ayo Osinlu, the First […]

Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) on Monday urged the Federal Government to immediately disband the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges in the North for its incompetence and insincerity. Last week, Minister of Special Duties and Chairman of the committee, Alhaji Tanimu Turaki announced that the committee had reached a ceasefire […]

The Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu, Enugu State has ruled that Chief Victor Umeh is the authentic National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), dumping a February 8 judgment of the Enugu State High Court delivered by Chief Judge of the state, Justice Innocent Umezulike. Umezulike’s judgement had also removed all members of the […]

The family of the acclaimed winner of the June 1993 Presidential Election, Chief M. K. O. Abiola, whose wife Kudirat was murdered by agents suspected to be loyal to the ruling military government, has rejected the judgement of an Appeal Court discharging and acquitting Major Hamza Al Mustapha and Alhaji Lateef Shofolahan, who are the […]