The Federal Government has described reports that the 2016 budget has been called back by President Muhammadu Buhari as a “big lie”. Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, told Daily Trust in an interview on Monday that “there is nothing like that.” There were reports in a section of the media that the 2016…
Striking teachers in Kwara State have been asked to shelve their action. This plea was made to them by the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Teachers in state-owned primary schools embarked on an industrial action on Monday after they had given notice to the government on this. They are angry over non-payment…
President of the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria, NPAN, Nduka Obaigbena, has explained why his body got N670 million from the office of the immediate past National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, for compensation for confiscation of copies of newspapers and circulation vans of newspaper houses by the last administration in 2015. The Economic and Financial…
If reports making the rounds are anything to go by, then producers of a yet-to-be-released flick on Ebola entitled ’93 Days’ are in for a big trouble. This is because families of the late physician, Dr Stella Adadevoh, who is one of the characters portrayed in the film, have threatened to take legal action against…
Embattled lawmaker representing Abia North senatorial district, Senator Mao Ohuabunwa has declined himself from the news making the rounds that former governor of Abia State, T.A Orji is his political godfather. Ohuabunwa made this known in an interview with Family Love FM in Abia State. The legislator, who is a member of the Peoples Democratic…
The Treasury Single Account, TSA, has continued to generate controversies and the National Assembly, NASS, has explained why it would not be part of the policy, saying it would jeopardise its independence. President Muhammadu Buhari, on assumption of office in May 2015, directed all government agency to key into the TSA as a way of…
Information reaching our office indicates that preparations are already in top gear ahead of this year’s annual World Anointing Night service organized by the wave-making and lives-changing daily devotional, ‘Our Daily Manna’ in conjunction with The Manna Prayer Mountain, an inter-denominational Ministry located at Orioke-Ogudu, Ojota in Lagos. According to what we learnt, the man…
An early morning inferno on Monday, January 4, 2016, gutted a main market in Yola, the capital city of Adamawa State. It was learnt that the fire started around 3:17am and affected some shops in the market. However, no life was lost in the unfortunate incident. The inferno was said to have been triggered by…
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State and former Governor Sam Egwu last Wednesday openly narrated how they outwitted the immediate past governor of the state, Martin Elechi and his allies, to emerge victorious in the April 2015 elections. They said during a thanksgiving service by Egwu, who is the current Senator representing Ebonyi North senatorial…
In the past two months, Sahara Reporters, an emerging online media giant on news in Nigeria had in five different articles, assertively attacked the Nigerian judiciary of bribery on a particular issue of electoral contest involving the present Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa. In some instances, it even made very disturbing, clear defamatory, biased…