President Goodluck Jonathan has recommended Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke for a job at the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC. The Nigerian leader wants his Minister to become the next Secretary-General of the organisation. The current Secretary-General of OPEC is Abdullah al-Badri and he is expected vacate the position in December 2014. However, Alison-Madueke…
Residents of Wuse area of Abuja were shocked on Tuesday morning to see that roads leading to the Wuse Market were blocked by stern-looking policemen. When some of them sought to know the reason behind the development, they learnt that members of the Boko Haram group planned to carry out a bomb attack in the…
Gunmen suspected to be members of the Islamic sect called Boko Haram, over the weekend, abducted not less than 20 women near Chibok, Borno State. On April 15, 2014, the group kidnapped over 250 students of the Government Girls Secondary School, GGSS in Chibok and have not yet released over 200 of the girls. The…
Members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State, on Monday, demonstrated the alleged imposition of candidates on them by leaders of the party. The aggrieved members of the party stormed the office of the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, in Alausa, Ikeja, expressing their anger over the development. The protesters called for…
Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, is gradually putting finishing touches to his plan to rule the state come May 19, 2015, when the administration of Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola must have finally expired. Over the weekend, the Speaker held a meeting with members of staff of the Assembly, where he…
Reports have it that there was an attempt by forces of the Federal Government to arrest the newly appointed Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, at his official residence in Kano on Sunday. The former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, was announced as the occupier of the exalted seat by the Kano State…
The Federal Government has reacted to rumours making the rounds that it was planning to rename the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, after the late former Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Dora Akunyili, who died on Saturday morning in India. The former Minister of Information and Communications…
Major streets of Kano have been occupied by violent demonstrators who are kicking against the emergence of Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as the new Emir of Kano. The former CBN Governor was named as the new Emir by the state government on Sunday, following the demise of Ado Bayero, who passed away on Friday in…
Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has been announced as the new Emir of Kano. The former Nigeria’s chief banker was, on Sunday, named as successor to late Ado Abdullahi Bayero, by the state government. Addressing the media on Sunday at the Government House in Kano, the Secretary to…
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has advised those in the All Progressives Congress, APC, a party he recently left, who are now threatening him, to back out or he would be left with no option other than expose their “evil” deeds. The out-spoken lawyer turned politician, in one of his regular Facebook posts, stated…