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Current security demands in the country are so high that the Military has never been this stressed since the Civil War of 1967 to 1970, National Security Adviser (NSA), Mohammed Sambo Dasuki has revealed. Speaking at a session on National Civil-Military Dialogue in Abuja, Dasuki lamented that terrorism and other security challenges have forced the […]

Obong of Calabar, Edidem Ekpo Okon Abasi Otu (V) has been removed as the grand patriarch of Efik Kingdom by a judgement of the Appeal Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State. Justice Obgojor Ogar of the High Court in Calabar had earlier nullified and voided his selection, ruling that the process of his emergence […]

Governor of Delta State, Emmanuel Uduaghan has relieved Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Bernard Okumagba of his office. Okumagba will be replaced by Commissioner for Economic Planning, Mr. Ken Okpara. “Mr. Ken Okpara, Commissioner for Economic Planning, has been reassigned to the Ministry of Finance to replace Mr. Bernard Okumagba who has been dropped from the […]

A former Divisional Police Officer, Segun Fabunmi, who was dismissed from the Police Force for killing a Lagos resident during the fuel subsidy protest of January 2012, has been granted bail in the sum of N250 million by a Lagos High Court. Fabunmi, the former Chief Superintendent of Police who allegedly shot and killed 27-year-old […]

It was a shameful drama on the floor of the Senate chamber this morning as senators exchanged blows  over a heated debate on the State of the Nation Bill, which was earlier passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives and to which President Goodluck Jonathan refused assent. The bill was to make it […]

Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. (Mrs.) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has revealed that the country returned to the capital market after two years of absence and that it sold $1bn bond with ease. Dr. Okonjo-Iweala made the disclosure on Wednesday in Abuja while briefing newsmen about the recently concluded road show in […]

The Action Congress of Nigeria ((ACN) has slammed the Presidency for its alleged attempt to usurp the role of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) by describing the re-run election to the Imo House of Assembly in Oguta as inconclusive. In a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, […]

National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Nasir Issa-Fagee has explained the specific reasons for which the union embarked on its current industrial action. According to Fagee, the Federal Government has not only been insincere in its dealings with the union over matters of critical importance to the education sector, it has […]

River State Governor, Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, Tuesday, escaped death by a whisker, when a suspicious motorist drove into his convoy along Igwuruta road,Port Harcourt.www.www.aso.rocks search engine understands that the governor was on his way to Port Harcourt International Airport when the accident occurred.  An eyewitness to the accident revealed that the accident was caused […]Read More

The Senate on Tuesday stated its intention to only consider the 2013 budget amendment in October when it returns from its two-month break that begins today. According to Chairman of the Senate Committee on Information, Media and Public Affairs, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe who was speaking at a press conference in Abuja, the Senate will only […]

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the Federal Government to punish perpetrators of human rights violence in the on-going military response to acts of terrorism in Northern Nigeria. In a letter to the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges in the North, HRW argued that serious crimes that violate international human […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday commenced an indefinite industrial action, following a resolution of its National Executive Committee, which met at the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye in Ogun State late on Sunday. A total of 51 of the 53 branches of ASUU agreed to embark on the strike, in protest against Federal Government‘s failure to […]