The annual Maulud procession of Islamic Movement in Nigeria otherwise known as Shiites was halted by military personnel in Katsina on Wednesday. This caused tension in the area, but there was no record of any breakdown of law and order in the process. It was learnt that as the members were gathering at Central mosque…
South-West Chairman of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, Tokunbo Korodo, has assured Nigerians that the long queues seen at several filling stations across the country will soon disappear. Korodo gave this assurance on Wednesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Lagos. He noted that if…
The Kogi State House of Assembly has eventually been sealed by the Nigeria Police following crisis rocking the hollowed chamber. Security operatives stormed the Assembly complex on Wednesday and sealed it off pending when the leadership tussle is resolved. Last week, the National Assembly took over proceedings of the Assembly, though said it was for…
Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, has assured Nigerians that the lingering scarcity of petrol would be over in the first week of April. Kachikwu, who appeared before the Senate Committee On Petroleum Downstream on Tuesday in Abuja, when he was summoned, also apologised for remarks he made at the State House last…
The senior military personnel kidnapped by gunmen on Sunday in Kaduna has been confirmed dead by authorities of the Nigerian Army. On Sunday, March 27, 2016, some unidentified gunmen reportedly seized Colonel Samaila Inusa and his wife at gunpoint at Kamazo area in Kaduna. His car was intercepted by the kidnappers and was driven away…
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has been warned not to abandon the monorail project embarked on by the last administration of Rotimi Amaechi. Amaechi, who is now the Minister of Transportation, disclosed in his response to his successor’s remarks that the project is already 90 per cent completed. Wike had said in an interview…
Gladiators in the political arena in Nigeria are presently converged in Abuja to honour National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The former Lagos State governor is celebrating his 64th birthday today, Tuesday, March 29, 2016, and an event was organised to mark it. It is the Bola Ahmed Colloquium taking…
Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has been described as a threat to national security by the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state. The party made this declaration on Monday in a statement issued by the APC Publicity Secretary in Ekiti State, Taiwo Olatunbosun. According to the opposition party in the state, Fayose’s recent…
Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, disclosed on Monday in Abuja that he has secured the release of 300,000 electricity meters which belonged to the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN. Fashola, in a YouTube question and answer webinar on Monday, March 28, explained that the release of the metres would help…
Reports reaching our newsroom have it that elder statesman; Dr Tunji Braithwaite has passed on. The respected and prominent politician was said to have breathed his last at a hospital in Lagos after a brief illness. According to what we gathered, the former presidential aspirant died at the St Nicholas Hospital on Monday morning. The…