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The Executive Governor of Abia State, Theodore Orji, has approved the Deputy Transition Committee Chairmen for Local Government Areas in the state. Orji gave the approval on Thursday, directing the deputy chairmen to make themselves available to the State House of Assembly and State Director of Service. The new appointments was announced in a statement […]

The Nigerian military has arrested three suspected female terrorists who have been secretly recruiting ladies into the female wing of the Boko Haram terrorists group. Their arrests followed the failed suicide bombing attempt on a military facility by a female terrorist who blew herself up in Gombe recently. According to Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu, who disclosed […]

There was pandemonium around the Onipanu area of Ikorodu Road, Lagos State on Friday morning as rampaging soldiers invaded the road beating passers-by and destroying government transport buses.

Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has sued the state Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi,over plans to create 18 new Local Council Development Areas out of the existing 16 Local Governments in the state. In the suit number HAD/75/2014 filed at the High Court of Justice, Ado-Ekiti Judicial Division on 1st July and […]

Top officers of the Nigeria Police Force on Thursday held an emergency meeting to discuss strategies to combat the incessant terror attacks, herdsmen and farmers clashes as well as other forms of crimes and criminality including abductions trans-border banditry, proliferation of arms and ammunition, taking place in the country. The meeting was convened by the […]

Justice Fatu Riman of the Federal High Court Kano has on Thursday sentenced one Stephen Onyekachi to 14 years imprisonment. The convict was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on 6th June 2013 on a three-count charge of obtaining the sum of N220, 000 from one Auwal Shehu Garba under the pretext […]

Osun State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Ambassador Rufus Akeju, has been requested to proceed on leave of absence – for his own safety and as his contribution to ensuring the credibility of the state governorship election scheduled for 9th August 2014. He has not been removed or redeployed as widely reported in the media today, […]

Former Governor of Lagos, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has lashed out at The Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, accusing him and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) led government as merely using the Boko Haram insurgency as a “conduit to siphon Nigeria’s money.” Tinubu proffered the accusation on Wednesday in reaction to a statement […]Read More

The Joint Admission and Matriculations Board (JAMB), has concluded that the cut-off mark for admissions into Universities in 2014 is 180, while 150 will be the cut-off mark for Polytechnics and Colleges of Education(COE). Jamb set the The cut-off points at the 5th Combined Policy meeting on admissions into tertiary institutions held at the National […]

Chairman of the ongoing National Conference and former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Idris Kutigi on Wednesday admitted Senator Alphonsus Igbeke as replacement for deceased former Minister of Information and Communications, Prof. Dora Akunyili. Igbeke’s name was announced to the plenary by Kutigi amidst applause from fellow delegates. The Senator who represented Anambra North Senatorial […]

Madam Esther Ebiere Gbonkumor, the immediate younger sister to the first lady, Dame Patience Jonathan and her family has petitioned the Inspector-General of Police, demanding a full corona’s inquest into the death of her son, Christopher Onoriode Akpomowei Awin, who drowned in the swimming pool of Agura Hotels in Abuja, on 7th June.   The […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the presidency showed how desperate they were to win the governorship election in Osun State slated for 9th August, the party’s National Chairman, Adamu Mu’azu and President Goodluck Jonathan, meeting with one of the party’s aggrieved members and former governor of Osun State, Olagunsoye Oyinlola at the Presidential Villa, […]Read More