Kayode Adelowokan, Lagos An Ado-Ekiti High Court, on Monday, December 16, 2013, has awarded the sum of N2 billion as damages against the Western Publishing Company Limited, publishers of Nigerian Compass Newspapers in a libel suit instituted by Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi. Aside the N2 billion damages, the newspaper house was also ordered […]
Kayode Adelowokan, Lagos The President of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), Comrade Bobboi Bala Kaigama, has called on all Nigerians to come together so as to foster unity, peace, reconciliation and development as it remains the only way the country can belong to the leading nations of the world. Kaigama who was speaking […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is to arraign Mr. Fred Ajudua before a Lagos High Court, however, the arraignment earlier scheduled to come up before Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye failed on Monday as Ajudua was absent from court. Ajudua is to be arraigned for allegedly defrauding a former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi, […]
….Pledges Recruitment of 50,000 Youths In 2014 Igantius Okpara, Enugu Imo state Governor, Rochas Okorocha has given reasons why he dumped the All Progressives Grand Alliance(APGA) for the All Progressives Congress(APC), saying the party is ethnic-based. Speaking at Mbaise over the weekend during the conferment of chieftaincy title on one of his commissioners, Dr. Iheanyi […]
It was weeping and wailing in Badagry area of Lagos, Nigeria on Monday as over 200 police men from the Lagos State Police Command demolish over 500 buildings erected on a land meant for Police Estate. The police had stormed the 950 plots of land (65 hectares) around 10 am fully armed and with about […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos The Academic Staff Union of University, ASUU, has called off its five months old strike. The lecturers in public universitie began an indefinite strike over Federal Government’s refusal to implement agreement reached with ASUU on July 1, 2013 to press home its demand. The National Executive Council of ASUU met in Minna, […]
The African Examiner The Northwest Solidarity Forum (NSF), which draws its membership from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the seven states in the zone, has called on PDP governors to speak up on the controversial letter written by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to President Goodluck Jonathan. The group’s Zonal Leader, Alhaji Abubakar Danfulani, said […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos Former Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Otunba Femi Pedro after wandering in the wilderness has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and came back home to join the All Progressives Congress (APC). Pedro was the deputy governor to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in 2003 to 2007 and fell apart with the former governor […]
The African Examiner The Presidency has denied the allegations that Jonathan administration is training about 1,000 snipers ahead of 2015 elections. It also blasted the opposition party All Progressive Congress (APC) for calling for the impeachment of the president describing the call as reckless and irresponsible. In a statement issued by the president’s spokesperson, Dr Rueben […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the National Assembly to rise beyond partisanship and save Nigeria from imminent collapse by immediately kick-starting the process of impeaching President Goodluck Jonathan for gross misconduct. In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos Former Presidents, United States and Ghana, George W. Bush and John Kufuor respectively have challenge the Nigeria government to take stiffer action to halt rising corrupt leaders and terrorism in the country. They spoke at the 2013 Access Conference staged by Access Bank PLC in Lagos, Nigeria during the week, saying that […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a petition to the the United Nations, UN, Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions to compel the President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government to halt any alleged training of snipers for political purposes. SERAP’s petition followed allegation last week by former President, […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Owerri Obinna Ezirim, a self-acclaimed pastor has been docked at a Magistrate Court in Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State for allegedly stealing a one month-old baby, Prince Goodluck Chinedozie Asoronye. Ezirim, who hails from Ihodimeze in Ikeduru LGA of Imo state was said to have stolen the one month-old baby […]
(Reuters) South Africa will bury Nelson Mandela on Sunday, closing one momentous chapter in its tortured history and opening another in which the multi-racial democracy he founded will have to discover if it can thrive without its central pillar. The Nobel peace laureate, who suffered 27 years in apartheid prisons before emerging to preach forgiveness […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state has emerged chairman of the Progressive Governors Forum, PGF, made up of all the 16 Governors of the opposition All Progressive Change APC. Director – General of the forum Salihu Mohammed Lukman, disclosed this Friday in an official statement he issued adding that Okorocha emerged Chairman […]
The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised the alert on the desperate moves by six rebel members of the state House of Assembly, “acting at the behest of Education Minister, Nyesom Wike, to illegally and unconstitutionally impeach Governor Chibuike Amaechi.” The party in a statement by Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, Senior Special […]
Ruth Bamidele, Lagos Lagos state police have declared wanted one Abiodun Imole for his alleged involvement in human trafficking. Before absconding, Imole was the manager of Francis Inn Hotel, in Ikotun area of Lagos State. In a statement, the police said Abiodun, the manager of the Hotel located at Olu Odunusi Street, off Abiola Adeyemi […]
Muyiwa Bamidele, Abuja The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Eng. Andrew Yakubu has described the letter written by the CBN Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi to President Goodluck Jonathan on the missing $49 billion as a calculated attempt to ridicule the corporation. Engineer Yakubu made this known at a news conference […]
…Now Free To Aspire To Any Political Office in Nigeria Ayo Balogun, Lagos The Supreme Court of Nigeria on today (Friday) nullified the conviction of Chief Bode George in 2009 by a Lagos High Court in a case having to do with contract scam and corruption when he was chairman of the Nigeria Ports Authority, […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos The All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned the President Goodluck Jonathan administration not to take Nigeria back to the dark days of the late Gen. Sani Abacha regime, when perceived opponents of the government were targets of rampaging murderous gangs and the country turned to a pariah nation through unbridled human rights […]
