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It was a nasty experience for President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday at the Obafemi ‎Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, as students turned the institution into a protest ground. Armed with placards, the students  shouted “thief” at the President and other political leaders of the South-western region of the country who had gathered in the institution for a […]

Speaker of the House of Representatives,  Aminu Tambuwal has asked a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to help find out why the Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, decided to disobey the ruling of the court on the maintenance of status quo in relation to a case brought to the court by the Speaker. Tambuwal, […]

The spate of bombings in Nigeria is not showing any signs of abating soon. On Friday, three explosions devastated the Central Mosque, Kano,killing 35 people. Eyewitnesses said the explosions had more devastating effect because it occurred when worshippers were gathered at the mosque for a scheduled weekly prayers.   “Two bombs exploded, one after the […]

The Nigeria Police on Thursday denied involvement in the alleged bungling of the arraignment of Aminu Ogwuche, who was extradited from Sudan to answer charges on terrorism in Nigeria as it related to his alleged involvement in the bomb blast that happened in Nyanya, Abuja some months back. Ogwuche was freed by the court which […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has strongly condemned the Inspector-General of Police Suleiman Abba for daring to say he does not recognise Rt. Hon. Aminu Tambuwal as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and for weaving a web of lies to cover up the real reasons the police invaded the National Assembly. In a […]

President Goodluck Jonathan has described desertification as one of the greatest environmental and developmental problems of the 21st century, which can trigger a vicious circle of environmental degradation, impoverishment, forced migration and conflicts, posing great threat to the political stability of countries and regions it affect.  The president expressed the concern on Tuesday at the […]

Tragedy has once again hit the northeastern State of Borno Maiduguri on Tuesday, when a female suicide bomber detonated her bomb in a crowded market after a first blast. The suicide bomber carried out her act a few moments after a first bomb was detonated close to the first spot. Eyewitnesses said  the second blast […]

Patience Jonathan, Nigeria’s First Lady, on Monday appealed to Nigerian women to re-elect her husband, President Goodluck Jonathan, who is currently seeking a second term on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Though endorsed as the sole candidate of the party, there is the belief that Jonathan would be facing a tough election […]

Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, on Monday urged politicians and political parties in the country to play by the rules while also upholding values and ethics of the democratic process. Fashola, who spoke at the Lagos House, Ikeja while receiving in audience the National Chairman of the United Progressives Party (UPP), Chief Chekwas Okorie, and […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as plainly implausible and a witless afterthought the reasons given by the DSS for invading the Data Centre of the party in Lagos on Saturday, calling the security service a shameless apologist of the PDP At a press conference held in Lagos on Monday by its National Publicity […]

As Ikorodu division adopts him consensus candidate Two governorship aspirants on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC coming out from the Ikorodu Division of Lagos state have voluntarily stepped down for a frontline aspirant from the area, Senator Ganiyu Olanrewaju Solomon, popularly called GOS. As a result, political and eminent leaders in Ikorodu […]

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Friday took on the Nigeria Police following the way men of the force harassed and molested members of the House of Representatives as well as Speaker Aminu Tambuwal during a sitting of the House to discuss the request by President Jonathan for an extension of emergency in three states […]