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A Police orderly attached to officials of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Commission (DESOPADEC) in Edo State has been murdered. According to reports, the DESOPADEC officials were travelling along the Benin-Lagos bye-pass road on Friday when kidnappers attacked them. During the raid, three people in a nearby truck sustained injuries. The driver of the truck confirmed […]

Justice Fatu Riman of the Federal High Court in Kano has found Aminu Sule Lamido, son of Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido, guilty of money laundering. The court convicted the younger Lamido, 34, who was being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Friday, but he would serve no prison term. Rather, […]

The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos has discharged and acquitted Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, the man accused of the killing of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola, wife of acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 election, Chief MKO Abiola. Al-Mustapha, a former chief security officer to late dictator Sani Abacha had been in detention since his arrest […]

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has warned President Goodluck Jonathan to restrain his wife from her overbearing contributions to the heating of the Rivers State polity. Speaking at a press conference he addressed in Lagos on Thursday alongside Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), Soyinka also fingered the president as “vicariously liable” should Governor of Rivers State, […]

Despite clear and convincing evidence linking his aides, wife and supporters to the political upheaval in Rivers State, President Goodluck Jonathan has continued to feign ignorance. In the estimation of President Jonathan and his associates, Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi is an “enemy within” whose interest is contrary to the president’s second-term aspiration in […]

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has heaped the blame for the ongoing crisis in Rivers State on President Goodluck Jonathan and urged the National Assembly to immediately commence  impeachment proceedings against him for failing to live up to his oath of office to uphold the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The crisis […]

The Federal House of Representatives on Wednesday stepped forward to curtail the commotion at the Rivers State House of Assembly by invoking Section 11 (sub-section 4) of the constitution to take over the functions of the state Assembly. Chaired by Deputy Speaker Emeka Ihedioha, the House moved that with the level of violence in the […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has approved the appointment of Mrs. Augusta Chinwe Ogakwu as new Secretary to the Commission. Her appointment was approved at the meeting of the Commission today in Abuja. She succeeds Abdullahi A. Kaugama, whose five-year tenure expired on June 26, 2013. Ogakwu joined INEC in 1998 as Chief Legal […]

Four suspected members of the Boko Haram sect have been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Federal High Court in Abuja. Shuaibu Abubakar, Salisu Ahmed, Umar Babagana-Umar and Mohammed Ali were so sentenced after they were found guilty of causing the death of several Nigerians through terrorist acts. All four men were convicted on terrorism charges […]

Efforts to oust Rt. Hon Otelemaba Amachree, incumbent speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, have failed, and the counterfeit mace smuggled in by the five anti-Amaechi lawmakers was broken. www.www.aso.rocks search engine reported previously that armed thugs sponsored by Hon Evans Babakaya Bipialaka on Tuesday besieged the Assembly chambers with a fake mace and bloodied the majority […]Read More

Five anti -Amaechi lawmakers, led by Hon. Evan Bipi, Tuesday, stormed the River State House of Assembly with thugs, bloodied the majority leader of the House, Chidi Loyd and smuggled a fake mase into the House. Eyewitnesses reveals that the Lawmakers backed by armed thugs and security men have started deliberations and are likely to […]

The British Interior Ministry has revealed ongoing plans to ban the Boko Haram Islamist sect under Britain’s anti-terrorism laws. According to the Home Office, British-based extremists Minbar Ansar Deen, better known as Ansar al-Sharia UK, would also be proscribed from Friday, subject to parliamentary approval. “This will make membership of, and support for, these organisations a […]