Plan To Adopt Atiku By PANDEF Divides Ijaw, Itshekiri Nations
Itsekiri Elders and Leaders under the auspices of Itsekiri Leaders of Thought, ILT, has dissociated themselves from the Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF. This may not be unconnected with reported plans to endorse former Vice…
CCT serves Onnoghen trial notice
The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), yesterday served the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, a trial notice ahead of his arraignment on Monday. In addition, the Federal Government has filed a motion…
Pressure mounts on Assembly to shelve Ambode’s impeachment
…As lawmakers weigh options Uncertainty currently pervades the Lagos House, Office of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode and State House of Assembly Complex, Alausa, Ikeja, following move by lawmakers to impeach the governor over alleged…
Hong Kong customs seize record haul of contraband from Nigeria
A massive consignment of endangered wildlife animal parts allegedly smuggled from Nigeria has been intercepted in Hong Kong. The consignment is estimated at $7.90million, Hong Kong customs officials said yesterday. The…
2019: Enugu Stands Still For Atiku/Obi Presidential Campaign Rally
FORMER Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his running mate, Peter Obi on Friday stormed Enugu the Enugu state capital amidst jubilation, Thousands of…
‘Christian Elders’ Comment On Onnoghen Betrayed Jesus Christ’s Virtue Of Honesty’ – Group
The Middle Belt Conscience Guard (MBCG) has chastised ex-Chief of Army Staff, General TY Danjuma and other Christian elders for their biased and un-Christian-like stand in the ongoing trial of embattled Chief Justice Walter…
FG Promises Two Months Free Train Ride On Lagos-Ibadan Rail
Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi Ahead of the flag-off of the Iju to Abeokuta train ride on the Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail on the 6th of February, 2019, the Federal Government has assured Nigerians that there will be two…
FCMB Launches Hub One
The newly launched Hub One situated in the heart of Yaba Lagos The Nigerian Tech industry has grown in leaps and bounds over the years. Many innovative ideas, platforms and more have been developed, which have provided more job…
Buhari vs Atiku: We Are Solidly Behind Buhari – IPMAN Reveals
Members of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) on Friday threw their weight behind President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election bid. They made their choice known on Friday when their National Executive…
PDP campaign DG defects to APC
The Director General of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign organisation in Gombe State has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), the presidency has said. A statement by presidential spokesperson, Femi…
The Economist insists Atiku will win presidential election
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Africa is insisting that Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will win the February 16 presidential election. On Friday, EIU Africa said the…
Marouane Fellaini completes move to China
Manchester United have announced that Marouane Fellaini has left the club on a permanent transfer. The Belgium international arrived at Old Trafford from Everton in August 2013 and went on to make 177 appearances throughout…
Court Orders Forfeiture of N1.04bn Abandoned In the Bank
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured an interim forfeiture of the sum of fromN1,000,494,000 (One Billion, Four Hundred and Ninety Four Thousand Naira) only. The order was granted by Justice Lewis Allagoa…
ASUU Strike: Nigerian govt, lecturers hold emergency meeting
The federal government on Friday resumed talks with the leaders of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over the ongoing strike in public universities across the country. The lecturers embarked on an indefinite strike…
Nigeria’s power generation increases in January – TCN
Nigeria recorded an increase of 1,811.3 megawatts (MW) in power generation in January 2019, as the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) transmitted 127,157.7 mw as against 125,346.4mw in December 2018. The daily statistics of…
Crazy Traffic, Many Scale Fences As Auditioning For $100,000 Big Brother Naija Begins
Various parts of the country are on lockdown as youth in their thousands are currently having a date with destiny auditioning to be among the 12 housemates that would make it into the house for Big Brother Naija 2019. Big…
Fewer Officers, More Calls: U.K. Police Are Stretched by Austerity
On a foggy afternoon last fall, a suicidal patient walked out of Solihull Hospital and disappeared. Alerted by hospital staff, police officers discovered her on a Birmingham street, having downed a bottle of vodka. They took her…
Manufacturers spent N246 billion on fuelling generators in two years – MAN
Against the backdrop of the worsening public power supply, new data have emerged showing that manufacturers in Nigeria spent a total of N246.38bn generating their own electricity between 2016 and 2017. Further analysis of the…
Deactivating Facebook leaves people less informed but happier, study finds
Around the world, more than 2.3 billion people are on Facebook, actively communicating and posting and consuming on the platform, a figure that continues to grow and drive record profits, despite a barrage of privacy scandals and…
U.S. imposes visa restrictions on Ghana
The United States said on Thursday it was imposing visa restrictions on Ghana, accusing the African country of not cooperating in accepting its citizens ordered removed from the United States.U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo…
Onnoghen: Solidarity protest with Buhari’s decision rocks Kaduna
Hundreds of placard-bearing protesters, Friday morning, stormed the Kaduna state government House in solidarity with President Muhammadu Buhari for suspending the embattled Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen. The…
We can’t investigate stealing of ladies’ pants for money ritual – Police
The Nigerian police have said that they cannot investigate the recent claim of stealing of ladies’ pants for money ritual because it is not empirically verifiable. The police also said that they can’t investigate divinations or…
Plans to impeach Ambode self-destructive – Action Alliance
The National Chairman of Action Alliance, Dr Tunde Anifowose-Kelani, has described the recent alleged impeachment move against Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State as self-destructive for the APC. The chairman made this…
We’re not leaving Nigeria, says PZ
Conglomerate giant PZ Cussons Nigeria Plc says it is not leaving Nigeria and that claims of its departure from the country is totally false. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of PZ Cussons Mr. Christos Giannopoulos in a…