‘Doctored Budget’: Ita Enang Says It’s Too ‘Sensitive’ For Him To Comment
The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on National Assembly (Senate), Ita Enang, says he will not respond to an allegation by the Senate that he doctored the 2016 budget presented...
View ArticleEFCC Charges Metuh With Money Laundering, Says He Gave Anenih N21 Million
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said a former Chairman, Board of Trustee (BOT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Anthony Anenih, benefited from the N400 million allegedly...
View ArticleBuhari’s Budget Is Carbon Copy Of Jonathan’s – Soludo
Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof. Charles Soludo, has stated that the 2016 budget presented by President Muhammadu Buhari failed to make a departure from the budgets of the...
View ArticlePolice Reunite Mother With Daughter 5 Years After She Was Kidnapped
Tears of joy flowed down the cheeks of a mother, Mrs. Felicia Pius, on Wednesday, January 13, 2016 in Calabar, when the Cross River State Police Command reunited her with her 11-year-old daughter,...
View ArticleDickson Receives Certificate Of Return
The Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Seriake Dickson received his Certificate of Return as governor-elect for second term from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Dickson won the...
View ArticleThe Damaging Effect Of Appeal Court And Conflicting Judgements (READ)
Since the judgements at the various election petition tribunal across the country moved to the Court of Appeal, some of the judgments coming out of the appellate court have been confusing enough to get...
View ArticleLassa Fever: Medical Doctor Dies, Colleagues Begin Strike In Rivers
A medical doctor with Rivers State-owned Braithwait Memorial Specialist Hospital, BMH, Dr. Livy Ijamala, has died from Lassa Fever, bringing to three the number of people killed by the disease in the...
View ArticleMan Rapes, Impregnates 14-Year-Old Househelp In Jigawa
A 14-year-old girl has dragged her employer’s husband, Malam Yahai, to a magistrates’ court sitting in Garki LGA of Jigawa State for allegedly raping and impregnating her. The 14-year-old whose...
View ArticleOpinion: Why I Suffered Heartburn Watching Buhari’s Media Chat [MUST READ]
by Shaka Momodu I suffered heartburn watching the presidential media chat. I missed the live transmission but decided to watch the chat on YouTube following a friend’s glowing review that President...
View Article#SoundOff: Why Obasanjo As A Moral Compass Deeply Offends Me
The law does not recognize a vacuum. Where a vacuum exists, the law in itself must be applied to fill it. Law in this instance does not exclude the law of social and natural justices. The current...
View ArticleAs Lassa Fever Hits Lagos, Health Minister Calls For Vigilance
The case, which was diagnosed at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, involves a 25-year-old student from the Ahmadu Bello University. The patient is said to have been admitted...
View ArticleGun Battle As Boko Haram Stages Daring Attack On Military Base In Yobe
Barely a day after Interior Minister Abdulrahman Dambazau led a delegation to Yobe to assess the extent of destruction by Boko Haram, the deadliest terrorist group in the world has attacked the 120...
View ArticleEFCC Arraigns 12 Persons, Vessel Over Oil Theft
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Thursday, January 14, 2015 arraigned 12 persons, two companies and a vessel, MV PSV DEBY before Justice Muhammad B. Idris of the Federal High Court,...
View ArticleBill Banning Child Marriage In Pakistan Fails After It Is Deemed ‘Un-Islamic’
Pakistani lawmakers had to withdraw a bill aimed at curbing the practice of child marriage after a prominent religious body declared the legislation un-Islamic. The bill, which proposed raising the...
View ArticleTransport Minister, Rotimi Amaechi Receives Igbo Man Of The Year Award
National Secretary of the Ohanaeze Youth Council, OYC, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, who disclosed this to journalists at a press briefing on Thursday, said “the former Governor of Rivers State from the Ikwerre...
View Article$3 Million For A Website, And Other Outlandish Expenses In Buhari’s 2016...
by Kalu Aja “Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” The quote above was by Vice President Joe Biden, its succinct. If I see what you spend money on, I see...
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Opinion: Buhari And The Premature Honeymoon With #BringBackOurGirls Campaigners
by Olalekan Adetayo One of the major issues that worked against former President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election bid is his government’s inability to rescue the over 200 girls abducted from Government...
View ArticleOutrage As President Obasanjo Insists Biafra Is Dead
As the protagonists of Biafra intensify efforts for the realisation of their secession agenda, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Friday, January 15, 2016, described the move as a dead agitation borne...
View ArticleDickson Proposes N150 Billion Appropriation Bill For 2016 Fiscal Year
Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson on Friday presented a N150 billion Appropriation Bill tagged Budget of Transition for the 2016 fiscal year, as against N250bn passed into law in 2015 to the...
View Article#GlobeTrotter: Buhari Leaves For UAE On 3-Day Visit
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Sunday, embark on a three-day official visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). A statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant to the President, Garba Shehu, in...
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