Politics

The Cross River bye-election which was held yesterday, had Mrs Abbey Ukpukpen, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),  declared winner of vacant seat of Obudu State Constituency in the Cross River House of Assembly. The seat which her husband Stephen Ukpukpen occupied, was ...

A Senior Special Assistant to Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State, Mr. Randie Chima, has been found dead in his own room on the in Awka, the Anambra State capital. According to Punch Metro, Mr Chima was last seen on Friday evening “hale and ...

  Governor elect of Ekiti state, Kayode Fayemi and the All Progressives Party, APC have commiserated with the family of a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Ekiti who was shot dead on Friday. Late Bunmi Ojo was ...

  Nigerian students have been urged to learn French, to boost their chances of getting international jobs. A former Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Mrs Sarah Sosan gave the advice on Saturday, saying French is the second most widely taught ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday sent his warm greetings to the General Overseer Emeritus of Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria and founder of the Refreshing Ministries International, Dr Gabriel Farombi, who turns 80 on August 12. President Buhari joins the ...

The bye election into the Lokoja\Kotonkarfi Fedrral Constituency is holding in Kogi State and Senator Dino Melaye representing Kogi West Senatorial district is calling out the APC and sharing photos alleging election malpractice.   In one of the posts, Dino Melaye ...

                                Report had it that the National hospital Abuja is currently experiencing a power blackout which began early this evening when the lights went off and ...

Akwa Ibom Speaker, Onofiok Luke, who reacted to the defection of Senator Godswill Akpabio, a former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, has alleged that he was offered N2 billion and the deputy governorship slot to dump the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the ...

While we await the result of the Kogi bye-election which was held today, it was gathered that 3 onions were shared to voters by politicians who sought place in the Federal constituency.   Twitter user @IsimaOdeh who shared the report, wrote; They ...

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo who spoke at the 30th National Biennial Conference of the Students Christian Movement of Nigeria holding in Enugu, berated gospel preachers for failing to preach against the corruption. The acting President who stated that the problem with Nigeria was neither ethnicity nor religion but ...

Two agents of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) have been shot by political thugs. The agents were shot during the ongoing bye-election for Kogi/Koto-Karfe federal constituency, by suspected political thugs in Kogi State. The Chief Press Secretary to the former Speaker of ...

  An APC Candidate representing Toro federal constituency in the House of Representatives, Honourable Lawal Yahaya-Gumau, has announced that if elected into the Senate, the Nigerian constitution will be amended to make Muhammadu Buhari President for life. The APC Candidate who alluded to the fact that former president, ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has said his country’s partnership with the United States may be in jeopardy as ties strain, warning that Ankara could start looking for new allies, in an op-ed published in the New York Times today. ...

  Broadcom co-founder and billionaire Henry T. Nicholas III was arrested in Las Vegas on suspicion of narcotics trafficking after police discovered heroin, cocaine, meth and ecstasy in his suite at the Encore hotel, police said Thursday. Las Vegas Metropolitan ...

  Kenyan authorities have arrested the head of the agency that manages public land and the boss of the state railway on suspicion of corruption over land allocation for the new $3-billion flagship Nairobi-Mombasa railway. The line connecting the capital ...

UGANDA.  Prisons authorities are demanding that government creates more space to accommodate the growing influx of inmates into various establishments in Lango Sub-region. Mr Simpson Awongo Ebil, the mid northern regional prisons commander, said there is an overwhelming number of people ...

  Cameroon’s government has said it will investigate a video, which according to a human rights group shows the “brutal killings” of at least a dozen unarmed people by the country’s security forces. A government spokesman said on Friday that ...

A joint operation by Rwanda National Police (RNP) and Rwanda Investigations Bureau (RIB) in the City of Kigali has resulted in the arrest of 15 people suspected of either selling or using hard drugs. The operation was conducted over the ...

  Activists are concerned as a company involved in U.S lead poisoning bids to manage Lagos State water. Veolia, the company linked with the Flint, Michigan massive lead poisoning, is on the shortlist to manage two-thirds of water system in Lagos.   ...

Primate Elijah Ayodele of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Lagos, has predicted how the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP can emerge as the winner of the 2019 election.   Speaking at the launch of his yearly book, titled ‘Warning To The Nations’, which ...

  Mykehia Curry is going to be the first member of her family to go to college as the 18-year-old student from Georgia took out student loans to pay for her tuition and housing at Albany State University, but she ...

  Cameroonian President Paul Biya will face eight opposition candidates in the October 7 election. Elecam, the electoral agency, has cleared the nine candidates to run for the presidency from a list of 28 aspirants who had submitted their bids. ...

A prominent Mauritanian anti-slavery activist has been taken into custody before legislative elections next month in what rights groups fear is a politically-motivated move to silence opposition. Biram Dah Abeid, who heads Mauritania’s Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement, ...

Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki and his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, have raised alarm that the Federal Government has commenced the execution of a plot to implicate them and their colleagues in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the last Tuesday August ...

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, held a press briefing in Abuja today, where he said that his party will do everything possible to ensure Senate President Bukola Saraki who recently defected from APC to PDP, ...