Politics

  The Chairman of the Reformed All Progressives Congress (r-APC), Buba Galadima, was involved in a ghastly motor accident along Hadeija-Kano Road today Monday July 23rd.   A member of the break-away group from APC, Emmanuel Sawyerr, told the Cable ...

Oshiomhole threatened to sanction Ngige on the heels of the Minister’s refusal to constitute the board members of Federal Agencies’ and parastatals under his ministry.   Shortly after assuming office, Oshiomole directed all Ministers in the cabinet to constitute the ...

Yesterday, a convoy of the Minister of Youth Development and Sport, Barrister Solomon Dalung, was involved in an accident near Akko village along Gombe Airport road. The minister was in Gombe for the elective national congress of the National Youth ...

The immediate past Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Timi Frank, has said that the promises of oil well and automatic tickets to some leaders of rAPC by the presidency won’t stop their planned ...

 Mr. Haruna, The PDP Secretary in Abejukolo, headquarters of Omala LGA of Kogi State, was today killed in a fatal accident yesterday. According to reports, the accident happened along Ochadamu Junction. It was gathered that the driver of the vehicle lost ...

Rev. Fr. Mbaka’s yesterday live message  titled ‘disaster is coming’. Here are some excerpts from the message….. 1.President Buhari,a former coup plotter has no reason not to stop the ongoing killings in the country.He has no reason to not have ...

Ahead of Sept. 22 Osun governorship election, Mr Olapade Okunola, a Pastor at Redeemed Christian Church of God , has been declared winner of Accord Party primary election. Alhaji Dokun Babarinde, who is the returning officer, while announcing the results ...

Former interior minister Abba Moro has announced he will stand next year for the Benue South senatorial seat, currently occupied by Senator David Mark. He told a news conference in Otukpo that after touring the nine council areas that comprise ...

The governor of Adamawa state, Muhammadu Bindow, has denied funding the Saturday, July 21, rally of former vice president, Atiku Abubakar. Bindow said reports that he spent N70million to foot the rally where Atiku declared his intention to run for ...

Akin Ogunbiyi, the Chairman of Mutual Benefits Assurance Plc, on Sunday, July 22, kicked against the result of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s governorship primary election held on Saturday, July 21, in Osun state. Ogunbiyi said that he will do ...

A prominent liberal South Korean lawmaker embroiled in a corruption scandal was found dead on Monday, police said, in what appeared to be one of the country’s highest-profile suicides in recent years. Three-term lawmaker Roh Hoe-chan of the small opposition ...

According to reports, daredevil armed robbers attacked travellers on the busy road yesterday, killed several of them and allegedly abducted some. The attack occurred near Gidan Busa village, located between Jere and Kateri along the expressway.  

President Trump on Sunday night warned that if threats from Tehran persisted then Iran “would suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before.” In a tweet, written in all caps and directed explicitly at Iranian ...

The first  son of the late Permanent Secretary, Bureau of General Services, Office of the Governor of Osun State, Mrs Olufunke  Kolawole, Tolulope Kolawole, has committed suicide.   According to Punch, the 32-year-old married man ended his life in his ...

Mesut Ozil has confirmed that he is retiring from international football with immediate effect following the “treatment he received from the DFB.”   The Arsenal attacker claims that the way he has been treated by the German football association makes him “no longer ...

General Yakubu Gowon, a former Head of State has expressed serious concerns over the security situation in the country, saying that the situation if not immediately addressed, could lead to a religious war.   Gowon spoke on Saturday at the Benue ...

No fewer than eight commissioners, three members of the Adamawa State House of Assembly and some local government chairmen of the All Progressives Congress-led administration in the state have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Vanguard reports. The newspaper ...

The Trump administration has reportedly ordered at least 70 children under the age of 1 to appear before immigration judges since last October, with some appearing without any legal representation. Department of Justice data revealed on Wednesday also showed that the number ...

The senator representing Osun west senatorial district at the Senate, Ademola Adeleke, has been declared the winner of the People Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial election held on Saturday, July 21, in the state. Report had it that Ademola who is ...

Some South African police officers in the coming weeks will be arraigned for allegedly killing a 25-year-old Nigerian, Ibrahim Olalekan-Badmus, in 2017.   The Nigerian Mission in South Africa in an interview today said that the officers were implicated in the ...

Adegboyega Oyetola has emerged as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), ahead of the Osun State governorship election slated to hold on September 22, 2018.   He was one of 17 aspirants who participated in the exercise which ...

Widespread violence in Nigeria could affect next year’s presidential election, two US pro-democracy groups said on Friday. Voters in Africa’s most populous nation go to the polls in February next year, with President Muhammadu Buhari looking to secure a second, ...

Police in Kenya rescued 21 young Nepalese women during a raid on two strip clubs in an upmarket suburb of the capital Nairobi, detectives said on Friday. “Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Protection ...

A Zimbabwe court on Friday handed a four-year jail term to a former energy minister who served in Robert Mugabe’s last cabinet after he was found guilty of corruption, state media reported. Samuel Undenge, 62, will serve just two-and-half years ...

Park Geun-hye, the South Korean former President who was jailed for 24 years for corruption, has been slammed with an additional eight-year jail term for receiving bribe from the country’s National Intelligence Service (NIS).   A Seoul Central District Court ...