The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) has called for immediate probe of the eight-year tenure of former President Olusegun Obasanjo just as it advocated a national conference to enable Nigerians deliberate on numerous problems facing the country. S...
Former Chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Chief Edwin Ume-Ezeoke is dead. He died Monday, in India. Read details later
The proposed six-year single term tenure for president and governors being promoted by President Goodluck Jonathan has received a hard knock from Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi. Fayemi who was responding to questions on his monthly media chat,...
The strike embarked upon by staff of Edo State House of Assembly yesterday took a new dimension as angry workers locked out the Speaker, Hon. Uyi Igbe and other principal officers from parliamentary proceedings over their non-inclusion in the new minim...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has challenged the German engineering company, Siemens, to transcend its engineering procurement contract business interests in Nigeria to become an active operator in the country’s power sect...
In a bid to further strengthen the implementation of the local content policy, the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has issued a directive barring oil and gas operators and contractors in Nigeria from importing any oil sector e...
She did not become popular through acting.No. She was known as a model for one of Nigeria’s popular medicated soaps. After starring in more than few movies, she went off the radar, but in this interview with RUTH CHOJI who met her at the premier ...
A former Head of State and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change(CPC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has dragged the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, before a Lagos High Court over alleg...
A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday turned down a prayer made by one of the police officers accused of killing Ustaz Mohammed Yusuf, the leader of the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram, in 2009. Adamu Gado, a sergeant and one of the five accused per...
As Nigeria charts a new foreign policy, President Goodluck Jonathan has said that the nation’s interests must determine whatever policy was adopted. President Jonathan said this at the seminar on review of Nigeria’s Foreign Policy organised...
Scores of female students of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, who are undergoing pre-degree programme have fled their hostels at Moro village, on the outskirt of the ancient town, following alleged case of gang rape. The News Agency of Nigeri...
Babatunde Ogunjobi and Abdulgafar Oluwarinu Yusuf have been ordered by an Osogbo Magistrate court to pay N500, 000 as fine for stealing the mobile phone of Osun State governor, Mr. Ruaf Aregbesola. Delivering his ruling on the case, the presiding magis...
Members of the House of Representatives have cautioned former President Olusegun Obasanjo to desist from making inflammatory statements about the Speaker of the House, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal. Obasanjo had recently asked Tambuwal to step down because, acco...
The cold war between the attorney-general and minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke and the chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Farida Waziri may have to do with the alleged undermining of Adoke’s office by some forces ...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has decried the attempt by a section of the media (not leadership) to cast the party in bad light, through headlines that are at variance with the report of the National Judicial Council’s (NJC’s) fact-f...