Reports

The Defence Headquarters may deploy additional troops to Yobe State following Saturday’s attack on Government Secondary School, Mamudo near Potiskum, Yobe State, in which 32 students were killed.  Hint on this emerged on Wednesday following a high-powered fact-finding mission by the DHQ to the state. Leader of the DHQ team, Major-General Obinali Ariahu had informed Yobe State Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim […]Read More

The suit of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against former Governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva has been dismissed by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. EFCC initially secured an order of temporary forfeiture of about 48 properties traced to Sylva. Granting the order in December 2012, Justice Ahmed Ramat Mohammed allowed […]

Two former top members of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Timothy Elerewe and Adegbuyi Ayodele were on Tuesday remanded in prison custody for allegedly duping their colleagues to the tune of over N14m. Timothy Elerewe, a former chairman of the NUJ Correspondent Chapel, Abuja, and Adegbuyi Ayodele, former secretary of the union are to […]

Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande has expressed confidence that the yet-unregistered party resulting from the merger of some political parties would defeat the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in 2015. Coincidentally, while Akande was declaring that nothing would stop the party from achieving the feat, a chieftain of […]

The senate committee on marine transport has directed the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) to meet its tax obligations to the Nigerian Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). The committee gave this directive as it waded into the rift between the two government agencies with an assurance to resolve it for the interest of the Nigerian […]

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday saluted all adherents of the Islamic faith in Nigeria as they begin this year’s Ramadan fast, imploring them to put the country’s needs in mind during the Holy Month. In a statement released by Dr. Reuben Abati, his special adviser on media and publicity, he urged them that as they […]

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) on described President Goodluck Jonathan’s reactions to incidents of insecurity and strikes by the Boko Haram sect as irritating. They also reminded him that Nigeria did not vote for a “Saint Jonathan” but a politician who vied for an elective post, got it and got sworn into office […]

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Akinwumi Adesina, has disclosed that the Federal Government is to train a total of 750, 000 graduates on commercial farming through a new scheme that is to be launched for young graduates. According to the minister who spoke Monday at a news conference organised by the Rockefeller Foundation, an international NGO, […]

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola on Monday urged collective action against culture of impunity beyond merely speaking against it. The governor said this when he played host to renowned constitutional lawyer, Professor Ben Nwabueze, who presented him copies of his just-published autobiography, Ben Nwabueze: His Life, Works and Times-An Autobiography. The governor, who spoke […]

Nigerians in the Diaspora who may be interested in bidding for public sector consultancy or contracting jobs back home in Nigeria are seeking a waiver of the three-year tax clearance requirement as a precondition for their eligibility. The waiver was canvassed in response to the exhortation by Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku who spoke […]

Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described as fallacious the claim by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the party’s governors in the Southwest shunned last week’s flag-off of the reconstruction of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway by President Goodluck Jonathan. There had been accusations by the PDP that the governors shunned President Jonathan as some of […]

Amnesty International has condemned the killing of boarding school students in Yobe state on Saturday by an armed Islamist group saying, “such attacks violate the right to life and undermine the right to education for thousands of children in northern Nigeria. “The attacks must stop immediately,” Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Africa Lucy Freeman said […]