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The Nigerian opposition Political Parties under the umbrella of Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), on Friday expressed shock at the reason the Supreme Court gave in the appeal filed by the consensus opposition candidate in the last Presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. In a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja by it’s National […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt on Friday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission not to remove the All Progressives Congress and its governorship candidate, David Lyon, from the ballot, to enable him to participate in the forthcoming governorship election in Bayelsa State slated for Saturday. The court gave the order following an […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Minister of Information during Ibrahim Babangida’s military regime, Mr. Alex Akinyele, has died. He was aged 81. One of the children of the deceased, Mr Constantine Akinyele, said the former minister died on Thursday night after a brief illness. Akinyele, who was a public relations expert, was a pioneer spokesperson of the Nigerian Customs […]
Continue ReadingOne-time Commander of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) in Lagos, Mr Hakeem Olusegun Odumosu fondly called Tango One, has been appointed the new Commissioner of Police (CP) in the state. He is to take over from the newly promoted Assistant Inspector General Of Police, AIG Zubairu Muazu, who has been at the helm of affairs […]
Continue ReadingFire outbreak occurred on Thursday November 14, at the popular Tejuosho market in Yaba area of Lagos, Nigeria. Though what led to the fire and losses recorded at the market is still unclear at the time of filing this report, it was however gathered that only a section of the popular Lagos market was on […]
Continue ReadingFemi Gbajabiamila, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, shared these photos of other lawmakers who accompanied him to a meeting with Prime Minister of Japan, Shinz Abe, at the Government House in Tokyo on Monday November 11. Nigerians are however appalled that the Nigerian delegation at the meeting did not deem it fit to […]
Continue ReadingA High Court sitting in Bwari, Abuja, Nigeria has dismissed a suit filed by Busola Dakolo, photographer and wife of musician, Timi Dakolo against the Senior Pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo. In the suit, filed by Busola in September, she had accused Fatoyinbo of rape, adding that the alleged action […]
Continue ReadingTwenty seven awaiting trial detainees regained freedom from the Bauchi Custodial Centre and other correctional service centres across the state, courtesy of the state chief judge, Justice Rabi Talatu Umar. Justice Rabi Umar was the head of the State Administration of Justice Committee constituted by the Kauran Bauchi led administration to undertake a routine quarterly […]
Continue ReadingThe All Progressives Congress has been disqualified from participating in the Bayelsa State governorship on Saturday. The Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa ruled in a judgment on Thursday that the APC does not have a candidate for the election. Delivering judgment, Justice Jane Inyang, held that the primaries were conducted arbitrarily outside the rules […]
Continue ReadingPresident of the Nigerian Senate, Mr Ahmad Lawan, on Thursday, administered the oath of office on Senator Biodun Olujimi as Senator representing Ekiti South Senatorial District. Olujimi replaced the former Senate Spokesperson, Adedayo Adeyeye, whose election was nullified by both the Ekiti State Election Petitions Tribunal and the Court of Appeal sitting in Kaduna recently. […]
Continue ReadingPeoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the Hate Speech Prohibition Bill currently receiving attention at the Nigerian Senate and described it as savage, repressive, cruel and murderous especially its prescription of death penalty. This was contained in a statement released on Wednesday by the spokesman of the PDP, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan. He said: “Much as […]
Continue ReadingOne lawyer, Tope Akinyode, has dragged Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian Senate and two others to court over the proposed ‘Protection from Internet Falsehood and Manipulations Bill 2019.” In the suit he filed at the Federal High Court in Lagos, Akinyode is seeking an order of perpetual injunction prohibiting the respondents from enacting the […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo’s spokesman, Mr. Laolu Akande, has denied allegations that his principal visited a parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God where he and other congregants allegedly prayed for the death of President Muhammadu Buhari. Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity (Office of the Vice-President), […]
Continue ReadingThe Kaduna State Police Command has rescued a woman who was locked up in a dark room by her biological brother for two years. The police and an NGO, Arida Relief Foundation found the lady identified as Hassana Sale in a sad state in the room she was locked up in at Rigasa area of Kaduna by her brother Lawal […]
Continue ReadingPlaywright and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has in a statement, charged Nigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS) to stop the display of crude and naked power by releasing Omoyele Sowore, convener of RevolutionNow Movement as ordered by the court. The statement reads: “The weaponry of lies having been exploded in their faces, they resorted […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo said on Tuesday that a former national chairman, All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande, shared the same views with the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo on the importance of education in developing the mind and contributing to nation building. Osinbajo noted that both men held the view that a developed […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement, the coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), has raised alarm over an alleged move by the Court of Appeal President, Justice Z. A. Bulkachuwa, to disband the Kano State governorship Appeal Panel for the third time. The statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary of CUPP, Imo Ikenga Ugochinyere, said “The reconstituting […]
Continue ReadingFormer Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Sunday Ehindero, and Commissioner of Police, John Obaniyi, were on Tuesday, November 12th discharged of an N16.4 million fraud charge. Ehindero and Obaniyi, a Commissioner of Police in charge of finance and budget at the Force headquarters, were arraigned on May 10, 2018, by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related […]
Continue ReadingAn election stakeholders’ meeting in Lokoja, Kogi State capital, has been disrupted by suspected political thugs. The meeting — the second in the series — had in attendance the Inspector General of Police Mohammed Adamu, and National Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu. Trouble started when the governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party was […]
Continue ReadingActivist Deji Adeyanju, has accused the State Security Service (SSS) of offering him bribe to shelve a protest demanding the release of Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore. Adeyanju on Tuesday, November 12, in Abuja, displayed N1 million cash he said was offered to him by agents of the SSS. The activist led several other protesters […]
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