Breaking: Olisa Metuh, PDP Ex-Spokesman Out Of Prison
Olisa Metuh, former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was released from Kuje Prison Thursday evening. Hours earlier, the Federal High Court, Abuja, admitted him to ₦250 million bail. Justice Nkeonye Maha gave the order following a motion on notice with charge number: FHC/ABJ/CR/05/2016. It was filed on December 21 by his […]
ASUU Will Not Be Given Opportunity To Strike Again – FG
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has said that he will do everything to make sure the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) does not embark on another strike. Ngige stated this on Wednesday, while speaking on Channels TV’s Politics Today. Read Also: ASUU: FG Reveals When Strike Will Be Called Off According […]
Obasanjo Is An Igbo Man From Anambra State – Adefuye
Senator Anthony Adefuye, a Third Republic senator and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday said he stands by his words that former President Olusegun Obasanjo is not from the South- West but an Igboman from Anambra state. Speaking with Newsmen, Adefuye who was responding to criticism that has trailed his comment said […]
ASUU Gives Govt New Conditions For Lecturers To Resume
The purported calling off nine months strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has taken a new dimension on Wednesday as the Union gave the government the condition for its members to resume their duties. ASUU President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi stated that lecturers would only return to classes when the federal government provides a […]
Suspected Cult Members Invade Lagos Market, Kill Two
Jakande Market, Ketu area of Lagos State has been invaded by hoodlums, believed to be cult members, killing two persons and putting everyone in panic. It was gathered that the cult members hacked to death one bus conductor, identified as Kamarudeen Jeje, while another person, Musa Ishola, was killed in a similar fashion in Olasupo […]
PDP Rallying Members To Impeach Buhari – Rivers Rep, Chinda
There are indications that Nigeria’s opposition party Peoples Democratic Party is going on with its plan to impeach the half-dead President Mohammadu Buhari for incompetence. The Caucus leader of the Peoples Democratic Party in the House of Representatives, Kingsley Chinda, has stated that he owes no one any apology for calling for the impeachment of […]
Garba Shehu Responds To Attack By Reno Omokri
Garba Shehu, the Spokesman to Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari’s has responded to the challenge thrown on him and other members of President Buhari’s cabinet in which he promised to give a whooping sum of $20,000 to any of them who will spend a night in the Northern region without his security details. Reno Omokri, the […]
Chimamanda, Queen Elizabeth II, Make Sunday Times 50-List
The Nigeria award winning writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been named among Sunday Times’ 2020 Women along-side the England Queen Elizabeth II, US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, singer and entrepreneur, Rihanna; amongst others. Adichie and the other remarkable women were chosen for being ‘Inspiring, memorable and sometimes divisive” and for being the ‘women who stood […]
Nigerians To Receive COVID-19 Vaccine Freely From Buhari Govt
The Presidential Taskforce (PTF) on COVID-19 on Wednesday disclosed to Nigerians that the vaccine for the deadly virus will be administered free when vaccination begins in Nigeria. National Coordinator of PTF, Sani Aliyu made the disclosure in Abuja during an interview on Channels Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily. Read Also: COVID-19: Buhari Govt, Senate Meet […]
Why We Didn’t Ban Flights From UK – Nigerian Govt
The Nigerian Government has given reason it has not banned flights from the UK into the country despite the mutated strain of COVID-19. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, speaking on a Radio Nigeria programme, ‘Politics Nationwide’ on Tuesday in Abuja, said will require the concurrence of neighbouring countries for the ban […]
Kwankwaso Reveals Reason Behind Emir Sanusi’s Removal
Former Kano Governor, Engr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has explained why Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje dethroned Muhammad Sanusi II as Emir of Kano. He told Ganduje, ‘you dethroned him for your inferiority complex against him, nothing more.’ Read Also: Why I Couldn’t Expose Corruption In NDDC – Kwankwaso Senator Kwankwaso noted in a press statement signed […]
Refinery Rehabilitation Exercise Underway – Minister
Mr Timipre Sylva, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, said that the refinery rehabilitation exercise would be completed soon. He made this known during an interaction with members of the Nigeria Guild of Editors (NGE) in Abuja on Tuesday. ‘Apart from the completion of the plant equipment inspection and integrity study conducted since December […]