Category: National/Politics

Missing Plane Not In Nigeria–NAMA

Managing Director of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, Ibrahim Abdulsalam, on Tuesday, disclosed that the small aircraft alleged to be missing is not in the Nigerian airspace. Abdulsalam, addressing aviation correspondents in Lagos, said the four-seater light aircraft had been handed over to the Cameroon airspace authority before the incident. He stressed that the…

Gunmen Slaughter 30 In Kaduna

About three villages in Sanga local government area of Kaduna State were invaded in the early hours of Tuesday by unknown hoodlums, who unleashed terror on inhabitants of the communities. The incident occurred in Southern Kaduna, which is predominantly occupied by Christians. Several persons were killed by the gunmen and some houses also touched by…

Plane Enroute Gabon From Nigeria Missing

Just when the ‘world’ is yet to locate the missing Malaysian plane, a four-seater plane flying from Nigeria to Gabon enroute Cameroon is reportedly missing. It was said that the search and rescue operations led by Cameroon’s civil aviation authorities have not yielded any positive results at the moment. The small aircraft, owned by a…

Lawyer turned politician, Femi Fani-Kayode, has congratulated winner of the Ekiti State governorship election held on Saturday, Ayo Fayose. Fayose was declared winner of the poll by the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, on Sunday, beating the incumbent governor and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Kayode Fayemi. Fani-Kayode described the election as “free and…

The Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekiti State, Peter Ayodele Fayose, as winner of Saturday’s poll. The electoral body made the announcement around 4:25am on Sunday, declaring that the former governor of the state scored the highest number of votes in all the 16 local…

Candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, in the governorship election held in Ekiti on Saturday, Ayodele Fayose, has promised to accept any result announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The former Ekiti State governor revealed this shortly after casting his vote on Saturday afternoon at Unit 001 Polling Centre located at St…