Channels TV is reporting that candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the Saturday, November 21, 2015, Kogi governorship election, Audu Abubakar is dead. Abubakar was said to have breathed his last shortly after the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared the poll inconclusive. The reputable television station reports that the state government has…
The Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, has been invited for questioning over the increase in crime rate in the country. Arase was directed on Thursday to appear before the Senate to explain why cases of kidnapping and hostage taking has been on the increase lately in Nigeria. The lawmakers want to hear from the…
The Department of State Service, DSS, has been directed to produce the detained Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu in court next week. Kanu has been in the custody of Nigeria’s secret police and was not taken to court when his matter was to be heard. But a Magistrate Court 1 sitting in Abuja ordered…
A former Minister of Education, Igwe Aja-Nwachukwu is dead. The deceased was said to have breathed his last in Israel on Tuesday. News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports that the Aja-Nwachukwu died in an Israeli hospital from an undisclosed ailment. He was said to have been receiving treatment at the hospital for about four weeks.…
Former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki has reacted to allegations that he robbed Nigeria through the purchase of arms for the military to fight terrorism while in office. Dasuki, in a statement issued by his media office on Wednesday, maintained that he never did foul play in the procurement of military equipment during his…
A twin bomb explosion in Kano State on Wednesday evening left tears in the eyes of many residents of the ancient city. Attacks by suicide bombers at a popular GSM market in Kano on Wednesday left no fewer than 12 persons dead. The bombers were said to have detonated Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs, which almost…
Chairman of the Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Felix Obuah, has commended the ban on street protests by Governor Nyesom Wike. Obuah described the move as timely and necessary because some groups wanted to hide under the guise of freedom of expression and speech to cause commotions in the state. According…
Immediate past Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has expressed her disappointment over allegations of money laundering she is being accused of by most Nigerians. Dieani said she is specifically pained that her very “good friend” and former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido, alleged that $20billion developed wings under her watch…
In Nigeria, most governors, after serving their tenures, which are mostly two terms of four years each, retire to the Senate. But the incumbent governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, says he will not toe that path like his ‘senior’ colleagues. Fayose, addressing newsmen on Friday in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, said he has no…
Nigerians have been assured by the Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, that the former state governor, Rotimi Amaechi, will deliver as the Minister of Transport. The party, in a statement issued by the media aide to the state chairman of the APC, Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, said the former…