President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated with Gov. Babagana Zulum of Borno as he hits the golden age of 50. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman, who disclosed this on Friday in Yokohama, Japan said the governor got a goodwill message from the President. Zulum is on the presidential delegation to the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD7) in ...

Fresh scandal is rocking the Imo State House of Assembly due to allegations that the Speaker’s Chief of Staff, Mike Ohaka, forged his boss’ signature. The purported letter was wrotten to the Vice Chancellor of the Imo State University, Prof. Adaobi Obasi, requesting the employment of 46 persons. A source close to the Speaker said the Vice Chancellor, on receipt ...

Ex-senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has described the governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai as someone who has been reduced to a leper. According to Sani, the governor’s height has been reduced from “dwarf” to a leper and has also been abandoned by President Muhammad Buhari and his men. The former lawmaker was reacting to a comment made ...

Governors of the oil producing states have decided to meet President Muhammadu Buhari over his recent appointments into the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Board. Gov. Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa disclosed this while speaking with newsmen after the governors’ meeting held on Thursday night in Abuja. Dickson said that the governors cutting across nine oil producing states and different political ...

Imo state government on Thursday ordered the arrest of  Sen. Rochas Okorocha, over alleged assault on a government official, Mr Jasper Ndubuaku. The Secretary to State Government (SSG), Mr Uche Onyeaguocha, gave the order after the Chairman of the Recovery of Government Properties, Mr Jasper Ndubuaku, was allegedly assaulted at Okorocha’s residence. Onyeaguocha said that the state had also placed ...

Governor Yahaya Bello on Thursday emerged the flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress(APC) in Kogi. The Nation reports that he won the APC primary with 3,127 with a landslide. Counting is ongoing at the collation centre More to come….

The Federal Government on Thursday denied the allegation that it did not followed up the case leading to the award of 9.6 billion dollars judgment debt against it over a botched gas contract. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed gave the government position when he appeared as guest on the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) programme: “Good Morning ...

The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs Senator Godswill Akpabio says the allegation that he bribed the Chairman and members of the National Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal in Akwa Ibom State is totally untrue. Akpabio was responding to media reports that he bribed the tribunal chairman and members to upturn victory in his favour in his ongoing legal battle to reclaim ...

The leadership of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Kwara have declared the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the state, Malam Garba Attahiru-Madami, as a role model in election conduct. The CAN chairman, Prof Timothy Opoola, made the declaration on Thursday when he led members of the association’s executive on a courtesy visit to Attahiru-Madami in his office, on ...

The Federal High Court in Lagos has discharged and acquitted Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s aide, Dr Waripamo Owei-Dudafa over allegation of N1.6billion fraud. In a 190-page judgment, Justice Mohammed Idris held that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) failed to prove any of the 22-count charge beyond reasonable doubt against Owei-Dudafa and a Heritage Bank worker Joseph Iwejuo. He said ...