Buhari slams govt over fuel scarcity
Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has condemned the hardship faced by Nigerians in the search for petrol, saying the citizens were...
View ArticleBuhari too old for presidency – Patience Jonathan
Wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, has called on Nigerians not to vote for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), because the APC...
View ArticleBuhari will win on March 28, says Obasanjo
Former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has predicted that Maj. General Muhammadu Buhari will be elected on 28 March as Nigeria’s new president ...
View ArticleJonathan orders subsidy payments to marketers to end fuel scarcity …queues to...
President Goodluck Jonathan has directed the Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to pay all outstanding debts to petroleum products marketers in a bid to end the fuel crisis ...
View ArticleCaptain, 22 others arraigned in Lagos for oil theft
A gang of 20 men including one Captain Daniel Lebile were on Wednesday arraigned before a Federal High Court in Lagos for allegedly dealing in petroleum products without lawful authority. The accused...
View Article10 migrants die after boat capsizes off Sicily
A boat transporting migrants has capsized off Sicily, killing at least 10 people, the Italian coast guard has said. Scores of people have died in recent months as waves of migrants from North Africa...
View ArticleIjaw, Itsekiri agree on EPZ groundbreaking
Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, of Delta State, Wednesday, brokered a truce between Ijaw and Itsekiri nationalities over the $16 billion Delta Gas City project. Chairman of Ogidigben Export Processing Zone...
View ArticleAtiku commends military successes against Boko Haram
Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has commended the military for liberating Nigeria’s communities in the North-East previously held by terrorists. Atiku, who hails from the troubled...
View ArticleDangote Foundation offers N20m scholarships to students
The Dangote Foundation, yesterday made a scholarship donation of N20 million to James Hope College Agbor, in Delta State. The scholarship is to cover the school fees of selected indigent students...
View ArticleTension as Senate defers Obanikoro’s screening
Senate yesterday, commenced screening of President Goodluck Jonathan’s ministerial nominees after meeting behind closed doors for over two hours. Rather than commence plenary, members went into an...
View ArticleCampaigns: Call your wife to order – APC tells Jonathan
The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation, APCPCO, said yesterday that the wife of the President, Dame Patience Jonathan was “an incredibly crude woman” but thanked Nigerians for...
View ArticleCourt stops Ebonyi Assembly from impeaching Elechi
Temporary reprieve came the way of embattled Governor Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State, Eastern Nigeria on Wednesday as an Abakaliki High Court presided over by Justice John Igboji, granted an...
View ArticleAlleged poll scuttle: APC fabricating stories, peddling falsehood – PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said yesterday “the string of false alarms and outright lies that characterized the news conference addressed by the All Progressives Congress ...
View ArticleNothing will happen if Jonathan sacks Jega – Fayose
Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose yesterday said that President Goodluck Jonathan has the prerogative power to ask the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof...
View Article15 parties, 5 presidential candidates threaten polls boycott over card...
Fifteen political parties and five presidential candidates participating in the forthcoming elections, yesterday, opposed the proposed use of card readers ...
View ArticleMan stabs US ambassador in South Korea
The US ambassador to South Korea has been attacked by a knife-wielding man shouting anti-war slogans during a public event at an arts centre in Seoul. The ambassador, Mark Lippert, was assaulted during...
View ArticleWe’ve patched pot-holes on Badagry Expressway, says FERMA
The Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) said on Wednesday in Lagos that it had patched all potholes on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway and other roads in the state. Kehinde Afolabi, the agency’s...
View Article2 Nigerians, 7 others face execution in Indonesia
Two Nigerians, Raheem Agbaje Salami and Silvester Obikwe, a Ghanaian, Martin Anderson, are among nine persons to be executed in Indonesia Thursday for drug-related charges. They were members of an...
View ArticleJega must go: PDP disowns Fayose
The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has disowned the Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State over his statement on the sacking of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral...
View ArticleElections: We are not against use of Card Reader – PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP yesterday said it was not against the use of electronic card reader by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, saying it was only against using them...
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