Category: National/Politics

Some security operatives, on Saturday afternoon, stormed the secretariat of the Atiku Abubukar led faction of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, formed some days ago. The heavily armed and battle-ready policemen sealed off the office of the faction of the ruling party located at Plot 320, off Onyi River Crescent, in Maitama area of the…

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, has thrown his full weight behind the new Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, formed by former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar. This was made known by the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Hon Zakari Mohammed, while addressing some journalists in Abuja. The…

The Chairman, Board of Trustees, BoT, of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Tony Anenih, has now come under attack for supporting the governors under the new PDP led by Atiku Abubakar. Anenih had stated on Tuesday that some of the grievances of the governors under the new party’s faction against Bamanga Tukur and President Jonathan…

Controversial former spokesman of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, Femi Fani-Kayode, has withdrawn his ‘indiscreet’ statement on Bianca Ojukwu claiming that he had an intimate relationship with her many years ago. In his write-up titled ‘Neither a Tribalist Nor a Hater,’ published in the Leadership Newspaper of August 16, 2013, to defend himself over his earlier article…

The Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Ibim Semenitari, has disclosed that the life of her boss, Governor Rotimi Amaechi, is under threat. In a statement signed by the Commissioner on Thursday in Port Harcourt, Semenitari alleged that the Commissioner of Police in the state, Joseph Mbu, redeployed the governor’s Escort Commander, in charge…