We Will Deal ‘Decisively’ With Anyone Desecrating The Qur’an – Yari
Abdulaziz Yari, governor of Zamfara State, has vowed that his government “will deal decisively” with anyone caught desecrating the Qur’an in the state. Yari made the declaration on Monday, August 01,...
View ArticleScrap Security Vote Now, Governor’s Aide Insist
Rabi’u Idris, the special adviser on Legislative Matters to the governor of Katsina State, Aminu Masari, on Monday, August 1, 2016 called for total scrapping of security votes. Rabi’u said in an...
View ArticleCancel Imo Re-run Election, SDP Tells INEC
The Social Democratic Party, SDP, in Imo State, has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to cancel the just concluded re-run election in Isiala Mbano state constituency for...
View ArticleJibrin Submits Petition Against Dogara, 12 Others
Abdulmumin Jibrin, the ousted chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, on Monday, August 1, 2016, visited the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, and other...
View ArticleDickson Seeks Co-operation As Bayelsa Police Commissioner Dismisses Avengers...
Governor of Bayelsa State, Henry Seriake Dickson has asked political and opinion leaders, across the state and the Niger Delta to show more understanding and cooperate with the security agencies in...
View ArticleA Call To Free Senator Ike Ekweremadu From Presidential Terror
A Call To Free Senator Ike Ekweremadu From Presidential Terror & APC Toutocracy In Nigeria Democracy triumphs where it is pillared and powered by free speeches, pluralism of opinions including...
View ArticleAbia Governorship: PDP Sues For Nullification Of Ogah’s Certificate Of Return
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has filed a suit at the Federal High Court Abuja, against Uche Ogah and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, seeking the nullification of the...
View ArticleAny Dialogue With Militants Without Ijaw Leaders Will Fail – Edwin Clark
The Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Clark has said any dialogue between the federal government and militants in the Niger Delta would not yield result without involvement of Ijaw leaders. Clark...
View ArticleNigerian Gov’t Provides Food, Relief For 800 ‘Repentant’ Boko Haram Terrorists
Nigeria’s emergency management agency, the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 presented food and non-food items to 800 repentant Boko Haram terrorists. The items...
View ArticleTrump Unfit For Presdient, Obama Urges Republicans To Reject Their Nominee
Barack Obama, the United States president, on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 called on US Republicans to reject their presidential nominee, Donald Trump. Obama made the call in some of his strongest comments...
View ArticleBudget Padding Scandal: APC Leaders Summons Jibrin
Abdulmumin Jibrin, a former chairman of Committee on Appropriation of Nigeria’s lower chamber, the House of Representatives, on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 met with leaders of the All Progressives...
View ArticleI Will Rather Die Than Renounce Biafra – Nnamdi Kanu Denounces MEND Deal
Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has asserted that the group is not in the business of betrayal and as such would rather prefer to die than to renounce Biafra....
View Article‘I Left PDP Because Of Political Violence From APC’– Edo Ward Chairman
Former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ward 11, Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State, Chief Sunday Edehor, said on Monday, August 1, 2016 that his decision to join the All...
View ArticleBuhari Named Adegbuyi As New Post-Master General
President Muhammdu Buhari has named Bisi Adegbuyi, as the new post-master general and CEO of Nigeria’s state-owned postal services, NIPOST. The appointment was communicated to The Trent on Tuesday,...
View ArticleUS Gov’t Paid $400 Million Cash To Iran As 4 Americans Were Freed
The Obama administration secretly airlifted $400 million in cash to Iran as four Americans detained by Iran were released, according to the Wall Street Journal. The report states that the United States...
View ArticleShi’ites Defy Police, Protest The Continuous Detention Of El-Zakzaky
Members of the largest Shi’ite sect in Nigeria, Islamic Movement in Nigeriaon Wednesday, August 3, 2016, in Kaduna, defied police order to protest the continued detention of their leader, Sheikh...
View ArticleRepublican Billionaire Vows To Support Hillary Clinton Against Trump
Meg Whitman, a prominent Republican activist and fundraiser, has vowed to back the Democrat Party nominee, Hillary Clinton, for president and also money to her campaign in order to stop her party’s...
View ArticleRecession: Nigeria Doesn’t Need 449 Lawmakers – Economist
An economist, Prof. Joseph Odama, has advised the federal government to cut excess expenditure, as part of the measures to save the economy from total collapse. Odama, a lecturer at the Department of...
View ArticleAbia Governorship: It’s Treasonable To Sack Ikpeazu – Iwuanyanwu
A member of the board of trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, has described as treasonable, the attempt by some politicians to remove the Abia State Governor, Dr...
View ArticleRestive Youth Shut Down Agip Gas Plant In Rivers
Some unemployed youths on Wednesday, August 3, 2016, shut down the OB-OB gas plant belonging to the Nigerian Agip Oil Company in Omoku, the headquarters of Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of...
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