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Sequel to the resolution to summon heads of Nigeria’s security agencies and service chiefs, Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, led  a closed-door session between members of the upper chamber and the service chiefs for over three hours on Thursday. The meeting was to consider President Goodluck Jonathan’s request to extend the state of emergency in […]

The house of immediate past governor of Imo state, Chief Ikedi Ohakim has been bombed.The incident occurred on Thursday when highly explosive device, allegedly planted by his political detractors, went off in the Owerri edifice. According to the former governor who almost became an emotional wreck at the scene of the bomb blast, he was […]

There was serious panic around the ever-busy Nnamdi Azikiwe Street at Idumota, Lagos Island area following the discovery of three strange objects suspected to be explosives. The items were discovered in front of Union Homes Company, very close to a branch of Access Bank. A source said traders were already arranging their wares for business […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged the Federal Government to immediately stop the discordant tunes emanating from the highest echelons of government and speak with one voice on issues concerning the ongoing efforts to find and rescue the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram. In a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday by its Interim […]

Families of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls have on Thursday, cried out to Boko Haram to free their wards unconditionally since Nigeria has said a vehement no to the proposition of swapping the girls for captive extremists. On Wednesday, President Goodluck Jonathan had made it known at a meeting with Britain’s Africa minister, Mark Simmonds that […]

Following President Goodluck Jonathan’s Tuesday request to extend the emergency rule in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States, the senate has kicked off processes of the extension. Requiring detailed information from all relevant agencies, the senators in the upper legislative council on Wednesday, unanimously resolved to summon the Minister of Defence, General Aliyu Gusau (rtd); Police Affairs […]

The image of the Nigerian Army on Wednesday, took another hit when some irked soldiers of the 7th Division, took laws into their hands  shooting at a vehicle conveying the General Officer Commander (GOC) of the 7th Division of the Nigerian Army. www.www.aso.rocks search engine understands that the soldiers, had been denied allowance for fifteen days […]

A Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Balyesa State has convicted three Indian nationals, Sailesh Kumar Singh, (Captain of the vessel), Chadrashekar Sharma and Ajay Bhatiya, the owner of the vessel, MT Akshay, (who is still at large) to fifteen years imprisonment for offenses that borders on oil theft. The convicts were among twelve suspected oil […]

The Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) has again vowed to rebuild the destroyed Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, consolidating its announcement of N100m donation to all victims of the Nyanya Bomb blast. With hope that the abducted girls would soon be rescued, the forum promised to bankroll treatment and rehabilitation of the students as soon […]

Women representing All Progressives Congress (APC) and Labour unions in Lagos State, Tuesday afternoon, joined the call for the rescue of the over 200 girls abducted by Boko Haram from a secondary school in Chibok, Borno State a month ago. Led by Chief Mrs. Kemi Nelson a former Commissioner in the state, the women submitted […]

President Goodluck Jonathan and his Republic of Congo counterpart, President Denis Sassou N’guesso on Tuesday, called on African leaders, the African Union and its Peace and Security Council to intensify efforts aimed at the eradication of Boko Haram and other terrorist groups in the continent. The presidents made the call in a communiqué issued at […]

President Goodluck Jonathan has requested for approval from the Senate to extend emergency rule in Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe States for six more months. Jonathan made the request in a letter read on Tuesday at the plenary by Ike Ekweremadu, the deputy senate president. The request follows the near expiration of a second extension of […]