The Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha has denied erecting or authorising the erection of the controversial billboard in the state showing his ‘iconic’ handshake with President Barak Obama during his visit to the US last week. Okorocha has been under attack over the billboard since the picture hit the internet, but his Chief Press Secretary,…
President Muhammadu Buhari has written a letter to the Senate requesting the approval of the Service Chiefs he recently appointed. The Senate resumed plenary on Tuesday morning after going on recess some weeks ago. During their break, the President fired the Service Chiefs he inherited from the immediate past administration of Goodluck Jonathan and appointed…
Former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, who is now a Senator in the National Assembly, is the new Senate Minority Leader. Akpabio emerged on Tuesday during the plenary. The Senate reconvened on Tuesday after a long break. Also, members of the upper chamber of the National Assembly elected other minority leaders. Senator Emmanuel…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has reacted to the press conference organised by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Sunday in Abuja, where it said the ruling party is losing direction and has become a “bad change”. PDP’s spokesman, Olisa Metuh, had addressed journalists on Sunday and said President Muhammadu Buhari disgraced Nigeria during his…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State has thrown its weight behind the current probe of the State Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Mrs Gesila Khan, by the Department of State Security, DSS. The party in a statement by the state Chairman, Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, berated the opposition, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for seeking to…
Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as a “bad change” to the country. Addressing newsmen on Sunday at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Olisa Metuh, also said the APC-led Federal Government has no direction. Metuh said…
The crisis rocking the House of Representatives seems to be finally over going by the latest development reaching us. During a press conference held on Saturday in Abuja, spokesman of the camp loyal to Speaker of the House, Yakub Dogara, Abdulmumin Jibrin, disclosed that the two gladiators in the crisis, the Speaker and Femi Gbajabiamila,…
No fewer than seven persons were killed in a chemical explosion at the Laminga Water Treatment Plant in Jos, Plateau State. According to the state’s Police Command spokesman, Emmanuel Abu, the victims died after an explosion at the Plateau Water Board treatment plant near the British America junction in the state capital on Saturday morning.…
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, has said it is not part of the meeting called by former Niger Delta militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, better known as Tompolo. Tompolo called for a meeting with MEND and ex-MEND leaders on Saturday, July 25, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. But MEND, in a statement,…
President Muhammadu Buhari held a closed door meeting with House of Representatives member, Femi Gbajabiamila. The meeting was held at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Friday evening. This is the second time the duo are having similar meetings. Gbajabiamila was ‘anointed’ by leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to emerge Speaker of the…