Security has been beefed up around the Federal Capital Territory as delegates to the National Conference which will be declared open later today by President Goodluck Jonathan continue to arrive into the city from various parts of the country. Teams of security men made up of officials of the police anti riot squad, the anti-bomb unit, and State Security Service ... Read More »
A Federal High Court in Kaduna on Monday struck out a suit seeking to restrain President Goodluck Jonathan from seeking re-election in the 2015 general elections brought before it by two leaders of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The plaintiffs, Richard Mneaga, and Shuaibu Lill had sought for, among other prayers, an order of the court to disqualify Jonathan from presenting himself as a presidential candidate of ... Read More »
Wife of the President of the Senate, Mrs. Helen Onma Mark, Monday described as a “wicked lie” allegations that linked her with the consultants that organized the recruitment exercise of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) on Saturday. Nineteen applicants including three pregnant women reportedly died in cities where the NIS recruitment exercise took place. Scores were injured. Mrs. Mark, who ... Read More »
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Friday reiterated that the overall objective of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum Retreat was to put national issues concerning citizens on the front burner. Expressing satisfaction with the third edition of the Retreat hosted by Lagos at the weekend, Governor Fashola who spoke with journalists at the end of the Summit said it ... Read More »
Strong indications emerged last night that the first executive governor of Osun State, Alhaji Isiaka Adeleke may have formally joined the governorship race in the forthcoming August 9 governorship election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Sources close to Alhaji Adeleke, told Vanguard that the former chairman, Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, took the ... Read More »
MOVED by the ravaging nature of activities of members of Boko Haram who have engaged in massive killing and wanton destruction of property on daily basis, the government of the United States and some Northern Governors hav concluded arrangements to hold a three- day talk shop on security in Africa and Nigeria in particular. An Agency of the US government, ... Read More »
Three gunmen on a motor cycle have last Friday evening, killed a commissioner with Zamfara state local government service commission, Alhaji Yusif Garba in his residence at Ungwar Zabarma of Tudun Wada area of the state capital, Gusau, and escaped without robbing money from the victim. An eyewitness said three gunmen on a motorbike arrived the residence of the deceased ... Read More »
The political associates of Shehu Musa Yar’Adua have resisted the directive of the All Progressive Congress (APC) chieftain and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, that the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM) as a political party should collapse its entire machinery into the APC. It was reliably gathered that Yar’Adua’s political associates that eventually formed the PDM, in refusing to collapse the ... Read More »
Former Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi, has revealed that he almost resigned from President Goodluck Jonathan’s cabinet, before he was eventually fired a fortnight ago. Abdullahi said that he did not leave earlier, because the Governor of Kwara State, Abdulfatah Ahmed, encouraged him to stay on. He added that he was not shocked by his sack, saying as “a political ... Read More »
Unconfirmed reports say that 7 persons may have died and several others injured following a stampede at the National Stadium, Abuja, This was the venue of an aptitude test for the 2013/2014 applicants who had applied to join the Nigerian Immigration Service. Eye witness account said that over 56,000 graduates had gathered at the National Stadium as early as 7am ... Read More »
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