**Party Wants Sacked Council Bosses Recalled Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, has been tasked to implement, without delay, the judgment of the National Industrial Court reinstating the elected 22 Council Chairmen in Rivers State sacked by Governor Nyesom Wike. The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, challenged Arase to “do the…
President Mohammadu Buhari has appointed new Service Chiefs few moments after he fired the former occupiers of the positions. A statement issued on Monday in Abuja by the Presidency also confirmed the appointment of a new National Security Adviser to the President. Here are the new appointees and their designations. Major-General Abayomi Gabriel Olonishakin –…
President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the country’s service chiefs. Spokesman of the President, Femi Adesina, disclosed this on Monday, July 13, 2015. He disclosed that their replacements would be announced later. The affected officers are the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen Kenneth Minimah; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Usman Jibrin; Air Chief, Air Vice…
Former Plateau State Commissioner of Police, Chris Olakpe (rtd), has described situations happening in northern part of Nigeria as ‘war’. The ex-cop, while speaking as a guest on a Channels TV programme, Sunrise Daily, on Monday, said the country is in a serious war situation with the recent rise in bomb attacks in some parts…
No fewer than two persons were feared dead in a suicide bomb attack on Saturday morning in Maiduguri, Borno State. The suicide bomber and one other person reportedly died in the attack, which occurred near the office of the Directorate of State Security Services and directly opposite Elkanemi College. The bomber was said to have…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced dates for the governorship elections expected to hold later in 2015 in Kogi and Bayelsa States. Gubernatorial elections were not held in Kogi and Bayelsa States on April 11, 2015 because the tenures of the governors in the two states were not terminating on May 29, 2015…
Former leaders of militants in the nine states of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria have sent a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari concerning the amnesty deal that is reportedly meant to end in December 2015. In the letter dated Thursday, July 9, 2015 and made available to newsmen on Friday in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State,…
Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu has been called upon not to play partisan politics with the resurgence of Boko Haram attacks in recent times following his recent remarks that insurgency has worsen under President Mohamed Buhari six weeks in government. In a reaction to Ekweremadu’s comparative narrative on the resurgence of Boko Haram attacks as…
President Muhammadu Buhari and his Vice, Yemi Osinbajo have made their intentions known to get half of their salaries. This was conveyed to the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation on, SGF, Thursday by the Permanent Secretary of the State House, Nebolisa Emodi. The presidency also confirmed this on Friday in…
A male Boko Haram suspect disguised as female was on Friday afternoon in Yola, Adamawa State arrested by security operatives. He confessed being a member of the deadly Islamic Sect, which has carried out several attacks in northeast part of Nigeria. The suspect was allegedly tortured during interrogation by the security operatives in Yola before…