Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), are among living former Nigerian leaders attending a meeting of the Council of State currently holding inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The Council consists of the President (as the chairman), Vice President, all former Presidents or former Heads of State, all former Chief Justices of Nigeria, President of the ... Read More »
Prof. Valene Obinna, Media Director, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Imo State University Chapter, has maintained that the planned strike action by the union will not be called off until all unpaid salaries are settled. Obinna told NAN in Owerri on Monday that the union carried out the action to protest nonpayment of March and April salaries of its ... Read More »
By Kola Popson The embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dr. Ahmadu Adamu Mu’azu, is presently on medical trip outside the country. This information was made known in a statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the National Chairman, Chief Tony Amadi. Below is the statement as written by Chief Tony Amadi. “The National Chairman of the ... Read More »
Abia State Governor, Theodore Orji, has inaugurated an 18-member committee to evaluate the performance of the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party in the last general elections. The committee, headed by a former state chairman of the PDP in the state, Ndidi Okereke, is charged with the responsibility of ascertaining the problems and constraints faced by the party during ... Read More »
By Kola Popson The President-elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, General Muhammad Buhari, has met with the President of Chad, Idriss Derby at the Defense House in Abuja to strategize on how to curb the menace of Boko-Haram ravaging the country. The closed-door meeting, which was held today, Monday, 11th of May 2015, was largely centered on the ... Read More »
By Kola Popson The governor of Niger State, Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has deliberately refused to formally recognize the newly elected Speaker of the Niger State House of Assembly, Hon Isah Mohammed Kawu, at a public function meant for the commissioning of the Minna Building Material Market in the state capital on Monday. The event had in attendance the impeached Speaker ... Read More »
You can call me the devil’s advocate but I honesty don’t give a toss.Now that kashamu has revealed all in this no holds bar interview and on Saharatv for that matter, I hope all his haters will let him be and let him enjoy his mandate. The man has repeatedly insisted that he’s not a fugitive and that this indictment ... Read More »
By Emmanuel Nzomiwu – Enugu A former Commissioner for Youth and Sports in Enugu State, Ray Nnaji, has issued a two weeks ultimatum to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to investigate Governor Sullivan Chime for misappropriation of N12 billion and forgery of supplementary appropriation law to cover up same, amongst other offences. Nnaji issued the ultimatum in ... Read More »
THE House of Representatives had to temporarily suspend plenary on Tuesday due to power outage that lasted over 30minutes. Immediately power was restored all the airconditioners installed in the Green Chamber suddenly stopped functioning. The presiding officer, Emeka Ihedioha had to start cracking jokes to calm down the lawmakers repeatedly reminding them that they are patriotic Nigerians that they can ... Read More »
Fresh crisis is looming in President Goodluck Jonathan’s state between loyalists of his wife, Dame Patience, and supporters of Governor Seriake Dickson over supremacy on the control of the political soul of Bayelsa. It was learnt that the First Lady had finalised plans to move against the Governor through impeachment process. It was further learnt that First Lady’s loyalists were ... Read More »
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