Politics

The Anambra State Government has trained members of the ‘Operation Clean and Healthy Anambra Brigade’, also known as Obiano police, in the martial arts, especially taekwondo, to tackle revenue defaulters and related offenders in the state.   Obiano who stated ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday, August 18, reportedly restated his commitment to work harder to ensure that all who looted the nation’s treasury are jailed. Buhari stated this while answering questions from journalists after disembarking from the presidential jet ...

  The PDP candidate polled 10,725 to defeat his closest opponent and the candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Hon. Atem Ansho who polled 3,268 votes. Returning officer for the election and senior lecturer with the Federal University Wukari, ...

Yesterday, we reported that IPOB women who participated in a protest against the Nigerian government, demanding the whereabouts of the missing IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kalu and equally demanding a referendum, were arrested by the police.   The IPOB women who wore black attires as ...

  Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has signed into law, three Bills transmitted by the National Assembly, which are now Acts of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.   Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Nigeria after his 10-day vacation in London. The presidential aircraft touched down on Saturday evening at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, the nation’s capital. Ahead of his arrival, a Guard of Honor ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission has said that more than 8,000 members of the National Youth Service Corps serving in Osun State will be deployed as ad hoc staff in the conduct of the September 22 governorship poll holding in ...

  The Kogi State government says the decision of “patriotic Nigerians” to extend Buhari’s Presidency beyond 2019 is borne out of a genuine desire to deepen good governance and transparency in the nation. Fielding questions from some selected international media on Saturday, ...

  President of the Nigerian Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki has described the demise of a former Secretary General of the United Nations,UN, Mr. Koffi Annan as the ‘end of a golden era in global politics and international relations.’   Dr Saraki ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari will be returning to Nigeria on Saturday after a 10-day vacation in London.   President Buhari left Abuja for London in the early hours of August 3, 2018.   Before his trip, the President sent a letter to ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with the government and people of Ghana over the passing of former United Nations (UN) Secretary General, Kofi Annan, in the earlier today.   This was made known in a statement released by the Special Adviser to ...

                                                Senator Dino Melaye who visited Akwa Ibom State with Senate President Bukola Saraki, mocked Senator Godswill Akpabio in a new viral single he ...

  Former United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan is reported dead. The Ghanaian died at a hospital in Switzerland, Saturday morning after a short illness, former Deputy Health Minister Dr Victor Bampoe confirmed it to Joy News.   He was 80.   Mr ...

  Nigeria’s electoral body, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has made clarifications on its budget for 2019 General Election, saying that the figure it presented was N189.2 and not N264 billion as widely reported. INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmoud Yaqoub, ...

  Kano state government north western Nigeria has directed for commencement of the payment of August, 2018 salaries to state and local government workers, in the spirit of Sallah celebration.   The gesture according to the Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar ...

Nigerian popstar, Davido who is currently in Rivers State to shoot a music video with Duncan Mighty met with the state governor, Nyesom Wike.   Davido during a visit to Governor Wike at the Government House Port Harcourt, said he ...

A woman collapsed this morning during a protest held by women of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to demand the whereabouts of their leader Nnamdi Kanu.   The women took to streets in Owerri, Imo state, demanding to have answers ...

  The Nigeria Governors’ Forum have said that they are not elected to only pay salaries of civil servants. The governors made this known while reacting to calls for the increase of the miniumum wage being championed by various Labor unions. ...

  A state High Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara state capital city has threatened to imprison the inspector general of police, Ibrahim Idris, over alleged contempt of court. The court presided by Justice Ibrahim Yusuf made the declaration in a ...

An Igbo Commissioner told his Igbo guest not to speak Igbo to him, that Igbo language is not allowed in his office. If you are that commissioner, or you behave like him, SHAME ON YOU!! Yul Edochie, who was recently ...

Nigerian journalist, Samuel Ogundipe who has been detained since Tuesday 14th of August has been released.   He was released this morning after he was granted bail by magistrate Abdulwahab Mohammed of the Kubwa Grade 1 Magistrate Court in Kubwa, Abuja. ...

  Political tension has gripped members of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers as well as residents of Port Harcourt, the capital of the state, as a factional office of the party is scheduled for opening on Friday, August 17. ...

Ose Anenih has taken to Twitter to hit out at Nigerians trolling him for reportedly being an anti-corruption advocate. He is one of the sons of former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of PDP, Tony Anenih.   Apparently some ...

The Federal Government has denied a UN report which  alleged that it paid ransom for the release of the Dapchi girls. Over 100 girls were kidnapped from the Dapchi school by a Boko Haram faction in February this year with about 105 ...

  The Minority Leader of the Gombe State House of Assembly Mallam Ahmed Usman Haruna, has defected from the All Progressives Congress to the People’s Democratic Party. Announcing the defection on the floor of the house during plenary, Mallam Haruna, ...