Politics

  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, ...

  The Commissioner for Justice and Attorney-General of Rivers State, Emmanuel Chinwenwo Aguma SAN, has died. Family sources say he died today August 10th at a hospital in London where he was receiving treatment for an undisclosed ailment. An official statement from ...

Nine persons have been killed by unknown gunmen in Tse Ujoh community in Katsina Alla local government area of Benue State today August 10th.   Confirming the attack, the state governor, Samuel Ortom described as unacceptable, the latest attack which left nine persons dead. Speaking through his Chief Press ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the president Buhari led government and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to stop ‘deluding themselves’ and come to terms with the reality that they lack the legislative number and constitutional facilities to impeach ...

  Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State who spoke during a breakfast meeting with journalists at the Government House stated that he is more favoured to become the first President of Igbo extraction. The Imo State Governor who noted that he commands massive followership beyond the Southeast much more ...

A Kenyan court on Thursday charged former Nairobi governor Evans Kidero with corruption and wasting public funds, following a new crackdown on public graft. Kidero, who lost in 2017 polls to the ruling coalition, was charged by the Special Economic ...

First lady Melania Trump’s parents were sworn in as U.S. citizens Thursday. Viktor and Amalija Knavs, both in their 70s, took the citizenship oath at a special, private ceremony in New York City. The Slovenian immigrants, a former car dealer ...

Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha, believes he stands the best chance of becoming the first Igbo president Nigeria will ever have. Okorocha who is a chieftain in the ruling APC, said this when he spoke to newsmen at the state ...

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has lost his mother, after she died of cancer. The Governor confirmed the passing on of his beloved mother, Mrs. GoldCoast Dickson. She was aged 72. The governor in a statement on Thursday by his ...

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC Today raided the home of the former DG of the State Security Service SSS, Ita Ekpeyong.   According to Premiumtimes, operatives of the anti-graft agency, stormed Ita’s residence located in Asokoro, at ...

Bolivia’s gold-and-emerald presidential medal with sash, which dates back to the foundation of the republic in 1825, were reportedly stolen from a guard’s car while the officer visited a brothel.   The officer identified as Lieutenant Roberto Ortiz was meant to deliver ...

Again, Senator Dino Melaye representing Kogi West in the Senate did not appear in court on Wednesday to answer the charges bordering on gunrunning levied against him and two others.   However, the two suspects charged alongside the senator, Kabir Seidu, ...

The Benue State government says the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has unfrozen its bank accounts. The Chief Press Secretary to Governor Samuel Ortom, Terver Akase, confirmed this to Channels Television in an interview on Thursday.   The Anti-graft agency ...

Hon. Boma Goodhead, a member of the House of Representatives, representing Akulga/Asalga constituency went viral on Tuesday and made major headlines after she was filmed confronting masked operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS over the National Assembly Invasion. ...

National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomole announced Senator Godswill Akpabio as the new APC leader in Akwa Ibom State during the mega rally in Ikot Ekpene that saw the senator defecting into the ruling party. Oshiomole described Akpabio as an uncommon ...

The wife of Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, has begun treatment for early-stage breast cancer, the presidency said on Wednesday. Asma al-Assad is beginning the first stage of treatment for a malignant tumour in the breast that was discovered at an ...

A former aide to the sacked director general of State Security Service, Lawal Daura, has accused his former boss of being a serial bribe receiver and at the same time, a man who betrayed President Muhammadu Buhari, many times for monetary ...

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state and his wife, Nneoma Nkechi, have come to the aid of a widow in the state. The couple reportedly gave the woman bundles of cash, a job and a house. Nnamdi Obiaraeri, the Imo ...

Full speech of Saraki’s World Press Conference. Earlier today, the Senate President Bukola Saraki addressed a World Press Conference on the invasion of NASS by DSS operatives. Read below: 1. It is a matter of record that yesterday, lawmakers and staff of ...