The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has come down hard on the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the State for producing controversial former Minister of State for Education, Nyesome Ezebunwo Wike, as the party’s flag-bearer for the 2015 gubernatorial election. Rivers APC, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt, based…
Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has congratulated Ifeanyi Okowa on his victory at the governorship primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, held on Monday in the state. Okowa defeated his closest rival at the primaries, David Edebvie, by 406 votes to 299 votes. The governor, in a press statement issued by his Chief…
An early morning inferno engulfed the office of Mansard Insurance Plc on Tuesday. There was a thick smoke from the company’s office located on Bishop Aboyade Cole Street, Victoria Island, Lagos. What actually triggered the fire is not yet known to some people, but our reporter gathered that investigation into the inferno has begun. However,…
Former Minister of Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, has described the governorship primaries of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, held in Lagos on Monday as a “sham”. The former Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Ghana was defeated at the primaries by Jimi Agbaje, after he (Obanikoro) had been touted to emerge the party’s candidate based on his experience…
Jimi Agbaje has emerged winner of the governorship primaries of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos State. Agbaje, a former member of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, defeated his closest rival, Musiliu Obanikoro at the primaries. He polled 432 votes as against the 346 garnered by Obanikoro. Agbaje joined the PDP barely…
Some residents of ancient city of Kano have expressed their anger over the recently apprehended aircraft belonging to Russia, which was allegedly carrying military hardware. The plane was Chad-bound when it was seized by the Nigerian government. At a protest on Monday, the demonstrators, who stormed the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano, asked the…
Come December 10, 2014, the rightful candidate to fly the All Progressives Congress, APC, flag in the 2015 presidential election will be determined. Already, the opposition party has screened those who bought the nomination forms of the APC and the arena is set to contain the gladiators. Muhammadu Buhari, Atiku Abubakar, Rabiu Kwankwaso, Rochas Okorocha…
A former Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign, Gbenga Ashiru, has died. The late diplomat gave up the ghost in a South African hospital on Saturday. Ashiru, an indigene of Ogun State, was instrumental in the settling of the dispute between Nigeria and South Africa when over 100 Nigerians were deported from the former apartheid country for…
No fewer than 64 persons were killed and 126 injured in the bomb explosions that rocked Kano Central Mosque on Friday afternoon. “Two bombs exploded, one after the other, in the premises of the Grand Mosque seconds after the prayers had started,” a worshipper, Aminu Abdullahi told AFP after the incident. The mosque is attached…
Scene of the blast on Friday A mosque near the Emir’s palace in Kano has been bombed, reports reaching us from the ancient indicate. The explosion occurred just when Muslim faithful in the city were about to observe the Friday J’umaat prayers at the Kano Central Mosque. Imam of the mosque, Sani Zahradeen, was just…