The governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State has sworn in a new judge for the state. Justice Ambrose Mammadi was sworn in on Tuesday by the governor as the acting chief judge of Adamawa State. The ceremony, which took place in Yola, the state capital, was witnessed by eminent legal practitioners in…
The Federal Government, on Monday, scrapped the National Poverty Eradication Programme, NAPEP, and the Fiscal Responsibility Commission, FRC, as recommended by a committee set up by the FG and headed by Steve Oronsaye. Oronsaye had submitted a White Paper to the government, recommending the scrapping and the merger of some government agencies. The former Civil…
Suspected members of Boko Haram Islamist group, on Sunday, murdered about 25 persons, including 19 supporters of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Maiduguri. The party members were reportedly on their way to a meeting of the APC in Maiduguri, Borno State capital, when they were attacked by the gunmen. The insurgents staged two separate…
Nigeria’s ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has slammed the country’s main opposition party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the massive incidences of violence recorded during its ward congresses across the country over the weekend. In a statement signed on Monday by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, the PDP described the…
The age long feud between the ancient town of Offa and their closest kiths, the Erin-Ile, people, both in Kwara State, is now ruining the homes of prominent sons and daughters of the two communities. According to our investigations, the latest judgment of the Supreme Court on the 24th of March, which sent the people…
Reports making the rounds indicate that the mistress of top Nigeria gospel act, Lanre Teriba, well known as Atorise, Nikki Abdullahi, is presently pregnant for a Manchester-based Nigerian known as Muyiwa Manchester. It was gathered that Nikki and Atorise have been lovers for some time until Muyiwa came into the picture and allegedly snatched the…
The rate at which some Nigerians take their own lives is increasing by the day. Before now, such act was not too common because most cultures in the country frown at it. Those who commit suicide are not buried the same way others are laid to rest. Instead, their remains are thrown in the ‘evil…
The Plateau State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has shelved its ward congresses to Tuesday. This information was disclosed in Jos on Monday by a senior party official in the state. The ward congress was earlier scheduled for Saturday, but could not hold due to late arrival of materials and officials of the…
Justice Amiru Sanusi of an Appeal Court sitting in Abuja has sacked the Minority Leader of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Solomon Afolabi Oluyori. The judge upturned an earlier judgement delivered by Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court in Lokoja, Kogi State. The lawmaker was dragged to court by one Yakubu Kayode,…
By Nwaorgu Faustinus Former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct new Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, on Friday, escaped death by the whiskers when the tyre of his Jeep suddenly burst, causing the vehicle to somersault three times, ending up in the bush. The accident happened along Ishiagu express road as Eze, presently…