Lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Dino Melaye, has accused former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, of introducing corruption into the national assembly. In a counter statement on Thursday, the Senator explained that Obasanjo did so when he attempted to lure lawmakers to support hi botched third term bid. Melaye said though he…
Embattled National Publicity Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, has been released from prison after he met his bail conditions. Metuh was allowed to go home on Thursday night a day after his bail conditions were relaxed. He is facing trial over his link with the $2.1 billion arms deal involving former National…
***Party Hails Supreme Court Rulings On Rivers, Ebonyi Nigeria’s main opposition political party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has commended Wednesday’s judgements of the Supreme Court, which upheld the elections of the governors of Ebonyi and Rivers States; Dave Umahi and Nyesom Wike respectively. The party applauded the rulings, saying they not only “rekindled hope…
Former President, Goodluck Jonathan, on Wednesday said his government did not negotiate with the deadly terrorists group called Boko Haram. Jonathan made this known at a world press conference held at the Geneva Press Club in Switzerland. He pointed out that if his administration had contacted leaders of the sect, a programme would have been…
Former Political Adviser to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Ahmed Gulak, has declared himself as the new National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Gulak was at the Wadata Complex of the national secretariat of the country’s main opposition party on Wednesday, where he took over the PDP’s structure. Addressing newsmen at the secretariat, the former…
Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri, lost her daughter, Jackie Ifidon-Ola (nee Waziri) to the cold hands of death. Jackie, said to be 39 years old, reportedly died in the early hours of Sunday, January 24, of an undisclosed ailment at a hospital in Abuja. According to the…
The election of Nyeson Wike as governor of Rivers State has been upheld by a Supreme Court sitting in Abuja. A seven-man panel of the Supreme Court judges headed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed confirmed Wike as governor of the state on Wednesday. In the lead verdict read by Justice Kekere-Ekun,…
Reports reaching us indicate that former Inspector General of Police, Sunday Adewusi has passed away. The former police chief was said to have breathed his last on Tuesday evening at the National Hospital, Area 11, Abuja. Late Adewusi became police IG in 1981 and left office in 1983. He was born into the family of…
According to The Nation, the funeral rites for the late former Governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, have been released by his family after a long wait. The newspaper reports that the burial ceremony will commence on March 24 and ends on March 26, according to a family source on Tuesday. The former governor died…
Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, on Tuesday in Abuja said the Federal Government was yet to agree an out-of-court settlement with telecoms firm, MTN, over the $3.4 billion fine slammed on it in December 2015. MTN was fined $5.2bn by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, in October 2015, for regulatory infractions. The fine was later…