Gambian President Concedes Defeat To Opposition Candidate Ending 22 Year Reign
Yahya Jammeh, the Islamist president of Gambia, lost the 2016 presidential election to Adama Barrow, candidate of the opposition party and a former security guard. After announcing the result, Alieu...
View ArticleMy Gov’t Has Paid Fulani In Different Countries To Stop Killing In Southern...
Nasir el-Rufai, the governor of Kaduna State, has said his government has traced some violent, aggrieved Fulani to their countries and paid them to stop the killings of Southern Kaduna natives and the...
View ArticleDonald Trump Supporters File Lawsuit To Stop The Vote Recount In 3 States
President-elect Donald J. Trump and his allies have filed separate legal challenges in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in a suddenly robust effort to stop the presidential election recount efforts...
View ArticleUK Embassy Will No Longer Keep Original Visa Application Support Documents
The UK Embassy in Nigeria has adopted a new visa application process, the British High Commission said in a statement on Friday, December 3, 2016. Joe Abuku, a spokesperson for the UK Embassy,...
View ArticleSuper Falcons Beat Cameroon Clinching African Champion Title For The 8th Time
Nigeria’s senior women football team, Super Falcons have emerged champions of Africa again after beating Cameroon 1-0 in the finals of the 2016 Africa Women’s Cup of Nations on Saturday, December 3,...
View Article‘Emir Of Kano Is Ignorant Of Facts’– Presidency Blasts Sanusi Over CBN...
The Buhari Presidency reacted to Emir of Kano Sanusi Muhammadu Sanusi’s criticisms of its economic strategies, faulting his claims on its relationship with the country’s apex bank and quest for $30...
View ArticleKaduna APC Crisis: Gunmen Attack Campaign Office Of Shehu Sani
Heavily armed militants attacked the campaign office of embattled All Progressives Congress, APC, Shehu Sani senator in Kaduna Central District on Saturday, December 3, 2016. According to reports, the...
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Operation Python Dance: How Buhari’s Army Has Turned Igboland Into A German...
An Urgent Call To Southeast Public Office Holders: Before The Jihadist Nigerian Army Collapses The Ailing Onitsha Niger Bridge And Turns Igbo Land Into A German Concentration Camp In The Guise Of...
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NEMA Delivers 1,460 Bags Of Food Items To Nigerians In Relief Camps In Cameroon
The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, during the weekend, delivered 1,460 bags of assorted food items on behalf of the Federal Government for the feeding of about 80,709 Nigerian refugees,...
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The Future Awards Africa Unveils Nominees For Its 2016 Edition [Full List]
The Future Awards Africa, Africa’s biggest youth event revealed its nominees, aged 18 – 32, for its awards that reward hard work, talent and achievement on Sunday, December 4, 2016. The nominees are...
View ArticleFayose Kicks As Buhari Increases Workers’ Taxes, Other Deductions
Ayodele Fayose, the governor of Ekiti State, has called on the federal government to rescind its decision to reduce workers’ salaries through obnoxious increment in Pay As You Earn (PAYE) tax, pension...
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Austrians Reject Populist Far-Right Candidate In Presidential Election
In a vote closely watched across Europe, Austria’s voters appeared to have dealt a defeat on Sunday, December 4, 2016 to a right-wing populist bidding to become the first far-right head of state...
View ArticleGoodluck Jonathan ‘Changes Mind’ About Worshipping At Aso Rock Chapel
Former President Goodluck Jonathan made a dying minute change of mind about worshipping at the presidential villa in Abuja on Sunday, December 4, 2016. Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo disclosed this at...
View ArticleArmy Chief Rallies Nigerian Troops On ‘Final Onslaught’ Against Boko Haram
Nigeria’s army chief, Tukur Buratai, has charged men of the Nigerian army to monster courage and be prepared for the worst as the Boko Haram sect must be destroyed this December. A Call for Sacrifice...
View ArticleDonald Trump Taps Famous Neurosurgeon, Ben Carson For Cabinet Position
Dr. Ben Carson will be nominated as the next secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Trump transition team announced Monday, December 5, 2016. “I am thrilled to nominate Dr....
View ArticleNigeria: Northern Governors Sign Pact With GE On Solar Energy Projects
Governors from the northern states in Nigeria want to tap into the abundant solar radiation-of the region to industrialise and improve the livelihood of their residents. They signed a fresh pact to...
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Python Dance: Civil Rights Activists Raise Alarm Over Militarisation,...
Two civil rights organisations, International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law and the South East Based Coalition of Human Rights Organisations, have called on the South East Governors...
View ArticleEl Rufai Labels Shi’ite Sect ‘Insurgent Group’ And Declares War On Its Members
Nasir El Rufai, the governor of Kaduna State, has officially declares the largest Shi’ite sect in Nigeria, the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, an “insurgent group”. The declaration is contained in a...
View Article‘I Am Not Leaving APC, I Laboured To Build Party’– Bola Tinubu Says [TWEETS]
Bola Tinubu, co-founder and erstwhile national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has said that he is not leaving the party and that he worked hard to build the institution. Tinubu, who is a...
View ArticleSeeking Refuge: Former Spokesperson For Jonathan, Ima Niboro, Decamps To APC
Ima Niboro, former spokesman of former President Goodluck Jonathan, has defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC from the People’s Democratic Party, PDP. Niboro was ushered into his new...
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