Thursday, October 1, 2015 has been declared a public holiday by the Federal Government to mark the country’s 55th Independence Day. Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Interior, Abubakar Magaji, in a statement issued on Monday of behalf of the government, congratulates Nigerians on the celebration. The statement, signed by the ministry’s Director of Press,…
Spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, has accused the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government and his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, of leading Nigeria to autocracy. Metuh, in a press conference in Abuja on Monday, said this is coming based on “some disturbing political trends in our country since the emergence of…
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, says it has not stopped fighting for the masses as being speculated in some quarters. Recently, there have been beliefs that the labour union was no longer giving the Nigerian government a tough time, which used to be the case in the past, especially during the military regime and the…
President Muhammadu Buhari is to address other world leaders presently at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, USA, shortly. He is expected to deliver his speech after his Brazilian counterpart, Dilma Rousse, speaks with the delegates at the occasion. Other world leaders to address the Assembly are President Barack Obama of the US…
There was a short unrest at the University of Lagos on Monday morning when some students of the institution staged a demonstration. The aggrieved students claimed they have been battling with invasion of mosquitoes and bedbugs at the hostels. This led to the shutting down of the university’s two exit gates. As early as 7am…
Suspected members of Boko Haram militants attacked some villages in Konduga local council of Borno State in the wee hours of Sunday, leaving not less than 18 persons dead. Eyewitnesses claimed the insurgents stormed the town in motorcycles and Hilux vehicles while residents were fast asleep, unleashing terror on them. The terrorists were said to…
….Urges urgent probe of murders, intimidation of witnesses The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State has cried out to President Muhammadu Buhari, appealing to him to urgently institute a probe into murders in the State associated with the 2015 polls as well as the alleged intimidation of the party’s witnesses at the State Governorship…
President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to start a process that would try those involved shady oil deals in the country. The President made this known on Sunday during a meeting with President Xi Jinping of China at the 70th General Assembly of the United Nations in the United States. He further said that all those…
Brother to the immediate past Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Attahiru Jega, Abdulkadir, has been confirmed as one of the Nigerians that died in the Hajj stampede in Mecca, Saudi Arabia last Thursday. Abdulkadir, who is a judge, was among the two Court of Appeal Justices that lost their lives in the…
A lawmaker in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Ishola Akeem Shokunle from Oshodi/Isolo Constituency 1 has come hard on corrupt public office holders, saying that any public officer that is guilty of corruption should be executed. He said; ‘I support total or absolute punishment for corrupt public office holders, it is Sharia Law.…