Members of the House of Representatives elected under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have given their support for President Goodluck Jonathan for re-election in 2015. The lawmakers, at a meeting held on Monday night with Jonathan at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, endorsed his candidature for the presidential election in 2015. Though…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Ali Modu Sheriff, has left the party to pitch tent with the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP. Sheriff, a former governor of Borno State, was received by a mammoth crowd in Maiduguri, Borno State capital, on Monday afternoon. Several supporters of the PDP gathered at the airport to…
Wife of late controversial man of God, Prophet Ireti Ajanaku, Joy, has disclosed that popular gospel artiste, Tope Alabi, has not contacted her since the demise of the prophet in August 2013. The woman made this known in an interview. She said Tope Alabi, who was prophet Ajanaku’s spiritual daughter until they fell apart some…
On Saturday, the new Minister of Education, Ibrahim Shekarau, visited Kano State, where he hails from. It was his first visit to the state after he was sworn-in on Wednesday in Abuja by President Goodluck Jonathan as Minister. Several residents of the state trooped out to welcome Shekarau and the main road leading to the…
Boko Haram Claims Responsibility For Lagos, Abuja Blasts In New Video The dreadful Boko Haram group has released a new video obtained by AFP and has claimed responsibility for the two attacks that occurred in Lagos and Abuja on June 25, 2014. In the Lagos attack on a tank farm in Apapa area of the…
A former Secretary to the Oyo State Government, Dejo Raimi, has died. The astute politician gave up the ghost in the early hours of Sunday. The deceased was aged 80 and served as SSG in the administration of former Oyo State governor, late Kolapo Ishola. He was instrumental to the emergence of late Ishola as…
The industrial action embarked on since October 2013 by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, has been called off. The strike was suspended by the union on Saturday morning following a meeting held by the National Executive Council, NEC, of ASUP in Abuja. This also followed a meeting held between leadership of the union…
“The Police High Command” has ordered the “FCT Commissioner of Police in particular and other CPs in adjoining States to beef-up security at major parks around Abuja and its environs” and also “enjoins the general public, particularly those within and outside the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja to be roundly vigilant and report any suspicious persons,…
The race to the Lagos seat of power in Alausa, Ikeja, is heating up and the prospective candidates to the ‘thrown’ have started crossing the ‘t’s and dotting the ‘i’s. One of those believed to be wishing to rule Lagos after Governor Babatunde Fashola leaves office on May 29, 2015, is Senator Ganiyu Olarenwaju Solomon,…
One Ustaz Yunus, a journalist with a Kaduna-based weekly magazine, New Democrat, has been assassinated by some unknown hoodlums. Yunus was the Managing Director of the newspaper. It was learnt that the deceased was shot dead on Friday evening by the gunmen. The newspaper is owned by Senator Ahmed Aruwa, a two-term Nigerian Senator from 1999 to 2007.…