Former governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, has been suspended by his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC. Sylva was punished by his party for alleged anti-party activity. The former governor was the flag bearer of the APC in the last governorship election in Bayelsa State, which was won by candidate of the Peoples Democratic…
The Department of State Service, DSS, Nigeria’s secret police, may have apprehended one of the right men of wanted Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, Khalid Barnawi. According to tweets from Ahmad Salkida, a journalist used by Boko Haram to convey information to the Nigerian government and the public, Barnawi was captured in Lokoja, the Kogi…
The ward congress of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ondo State has ended without a record of any form of violence. The party conducted its congress in all the 18 local government areas of the state recently and from all indications, it was largely peaceful. According to a member of the House of Representatives,…
The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has confirmed that nine companies have so far submitted bids for the co-location of refineries in the country. This is contained in a statement signed by Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Garba Deen Muhammad, on Thursday in Abuja. The statement explained that the NNPC is committed to…
Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the last governorship election in Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), has described the years of his opponent in the poll as a curse. The former president of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, contested the position with the state governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, but lost. Speaking with newsmen…
…As Labour Party Candidates Drag INEC to Court By Hector Spiff Candidates of the Labour Party in Akulga/Asalga Federal and State Constituencies in Rivers State have registered their disenchantment and disapproval over what they termed “ostrich game” played by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, pertaining to the conduct of the recent Rerun polls (Federal…
Federal Government has intervened in the crisis rocking the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, met with aggrieved members and factions of the union in Abuja on Thursday and sued for peace. At the end of the meeting, all parties agreed to work together as one…
The recruitment of 10,000 policemen nationwide will commence on Friday, April 1, 2016, as earlier planned. In 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari approved the exercise at the National Security Summit held in Abuja. The Police Service Commission, PSC, in a statement on Thursday in Abuja warned its staff against compromising the recruitment process. In the media…
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has laughed off speculations that there is a friction between the Executive and the Legislature. This thought came following the controversy generated before the passage of the 2016 budget by the National Assembly last week after several postponements. Mohammed, during his visit to the corporate headquarters of the…
The National Assembly says details of the 2016 budget it recently passed would be ready in the next two weeks. This followed a disclosure by the Presidency that President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to assent the budget because he was waiting for the main document passed by the National Assembly. The Presidency said it must…