Reports reaching us indicate that exchange of heavy gunfires occurred around the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Sunday morning between some gunmen and security operatives. Several gunshots were heard in the area. It was also learnt that the headquarters of the Department of State Services, DSS, in Asokoro District of Abuja, which is adjacent to…
Candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in the 2013 Anambra State governorship election, Ifeanyi Ubah, has quit his party to join the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, reports say. The oil and gas businessman was reportedly seen on Friday at the Wadata Plaza, National Secretariat of the ruling PDP, discussing with some of the party’s bigwigs.…
Budding Nigerian artiste, Margaret Mary Joseph, otherwise known as Zara Gretti, has passed on. The singer died on Friday in the United States of America, USA, after a long battle with multiple Sclerosis. Zara is known for songs like ‘Aboko Ku’, ‘Teno’, ‘Flyest’ amongst others. About two years back, the artiste informed her fans of…
Nigerians may have to endure the long queues at the filling stations due to the fuel scarcity presently biting hard on them as the feelers reaching us show that it may not end anytime soon. This is because the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has closed the operations of the Nigerian…
A delegate at the ongoing National Conference holding in Abuja, Gamma Misau, has died. The deceased gave up the ghost on Thursday night at the National Hospital in Abuja. Late Misau was mocked earlier this week when a picture of him taking a nap at the Conference surfaced online. He retired from the Police Force…
In its efforts to end terrorism in the northern part of Nigeria, the Nigerian Army, on Thursday, engaged some suspected members of Boko Haram group in two separate gun battles and killed 11 of them. In a statement released by the spokesman of the Nigerian military, Maj Gen. Chris Olukolade, it was disclosed that the…
A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, has ordered the Lagos State government to stop the collection of any toll or tariff on the Lekki-Ikoyi suspension bridge. The bridge was recently opened for public use by the state governor, Babatunde Fashola. In its judgement, the court ruled that since the project was done by…
One of Nigeria’s financial institutions, Sterling Bank, is presently swimming in a troubled water. The bank has been accused of defrauding the son of former Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari, Muhammed, of the sum of N3.66 billion. According to a report by Global Village Extra, the younger Buhari was allegedly duped by Sterling Bank. Muhammed…
The Nigerian youths under the banner of The Progressives Youth Platform, TPYP, has declared that the youths in the country will dissociate themselves from President Goodluck Jonathan’s ambition to return as the President of Nigeria in the 2015 general elections. The Convener of the platform, Comrade Abiola Hamid and National Project Coordinator, Ahmed Somoye, said…
Justice Ledan Nyordee of a High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has discharged and acquitted the Majority Leader of the Rivers House of Assembly, Chidi Lloyd, of an attempted murder. The court held on Thursday that there was nothing it could do in the matter since the police was not willing to prosecute…