Politics

  Former Vice President and Presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said that he is not desperate to be President of the country. Atiku stated this while fielding questions from newsmen in Benin on ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday announced an extension to the deadline for the Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) exercise by two weeks. .   With the new development, the ongoing voters registration exercise which was due to elapse ...

  Nigeria’s electoral body, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced the registration of 23 new political parties, raising the number of registered parties in Nigeria to 91. The Commission in a statement issued by Mohammed Haruna, its National ...

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has issued a statement ahead of the Osun State governorship election in September saying, ‘we will vehemently dismantle all APC rigging machinery in future elections beginning with the Osun governorship election next month’.   According to the party, ‘now ...

Although policemen and other security agents were seen at the police stations, they looked the other way, while thugs terrorized people.                          A female corps member was allegedly kidnapped ...

“I think Vermonters should take me seriously because I have practical progressive ideas, and I happen to be 14, not the other way around. I think that my message and my platform transcend age.” 14-year-old Ethan Sonneborn, who took advantage of a ...

  A statement from the media aide of the acting president, reads; “Following persistent complaints and reports on the activities of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) that border on allegations of human rights violations, His Excellency, Professor Yemi Osinbajo SAN, ...

  The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has carried out another series of successful operations against armed bandits in the Northwest of the country. Air Task Force (ATF) for Operation Diran Mikiya neutralised Bandits in Sububu Forest, Birnin Magaji and Rugu Forest in ...

  A Makurdi High Court has restrained the new Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly in North Central Nigeria, Honourable Titus Uba, from conducting sittings in the Hallow Chambers of the State Assembly complex pending the determination of ...

  Major political parties in Osun State, South-West Nigeria are making frantic reconciliatory moves to ensure victory in the September 22 governorship election. Both the All Progressives Congress, APC candidate and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP are tidying up the ...

The Department of State Services (DSS) has denied reports making the rounds that N21 billion was found in the home of the immediate past director general, Lawal Daura.   In a statement issued by its spokesperson, Tony Opuiyo, DSS said ...

Read the official statement released this morning below. The Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki and Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, have directed that we inform all Senators, Honorable Members and the public that a date has ...

A man identified as Sunday Ajayi, who is a bricklayer by profession, has been jailed for six months by an Ibadan Magistrates’ Court sitting in Iwo Road after being found guilty of breaking into the Oyo State Government House in the Agodi ...

About 23,000 applicants have reportedly applied for just 1000 job vacancies declared by the Bayelsa Civil Service Commission. The state Governor, Seriake Dickson, lifted an embargo on employment and directed the commission to recruit 1000 workers following the outcome of the ongoing ...

The exercise was being carried out to curb the incidents of incessant building collapse in the state…. The government would not fold its arms and allow loss of lives and destruction of property. A nine-storey building at Osapa London in Lekki area ...

Veteran musician and activist, Charly Boy, who is a very vocal critic of the present administration, has come for them again and this time he mentioned that President Buhari has destroyed this nation beyond imagination in just 3 years.   Charly ...

                                 Former Minister of Aviation and PDP Chieftain, Femi Fani-Kayode has slammed acting president, Yemi Osinbajo, on his comment on Nigerians pastors and said he is not a ...

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has claimed that the people of the State are in pain over the victory achieved by the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in the July 14 governorship election.   Fayose alleged that the APC stole ...

Mrs. Aisha Buhari, Wife of the President, Muhammadu Buhari, has been honoured with a Doctorate in Humanity by Sun Moon University, Asan, South Korea.   She was honoured for her humanitarian activities through her initiative, Future Assured Programme. Mrs Aisha shared ...

  Kano state governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has offered free education from primary to tertiary level to 100 Borno children orphaned by Boko Haram terrorists. It could be recalled that this is the second time the state government would support ...

The elctoral body shared these photos of its registration officers on twitter and wrote ”The Registration Officers of Kurmi Local Government Area crossing a river to enable them get into the hinterland for the last lap of the Continuous Voters ...

  Polling booths are to be positioned in a way to make it difficult for people to see how voters cast their votes during elections, a Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) announced in Awka on Monday. Dr Nkwachukwu Orji, the REC ...

A Nigerian documentary photographer, Muhammad Bukar Umara, has alleged that many patients suffering from kidney disease, died at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, due to the poor care facilities. “Poor kidney care facilities in the UMTH has killed more ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Akwa Ibom says that 121,317 Permanent Voters cards (PVC) are yet to be collected.   Mike Igini, Resident Electoral Commissioner(REC), disclosed this in an Interview with the News Agency of Nigeria today saying “no ...

The Federal Government of Nigeria has inaugurated a new initiative to empower two million petty traders across the country between now and the end of the year.   The initiative called the Trader Moni is meant to further enlarge the ...