Year: 2015
We’re not dumping Amaechi, APC – Rivers Exco
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt After the defection of Tele Ikuru, the deputy governor of Rivers state from All Progressive Congress (APC)…
‘Yoruba Leaders Got Blood Money From Jonathan’
Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola has accused some Yoruba leaders of betraying the Yoruba people by collecting blood…
Chibok Girls Who Escaped Boko Haram Return To School
The twenty-one Chibok schoogirls who escaped when Boko Haram abducted hundreds of them on 14 April last year are back…
Online Election Monitoring Platform Launched
A Lagos-based company, Vision Web Technologies, has launched an online platform to enable Nigerians monitor and report proceedings during the…
INEC, Party Agents Inspect Ballot Papers, Card Readers
Jethro Ibileke/Benin The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and agents of political parties have been invited to Abuja, Nigeria’s capital,…
The Reduction In Electricity Tariff
A few weeks ago, the Federal Government, through the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, announced a 50 percent reduction in…
March For New Nigeria
By Babatunde Fashola Election is a referendum on the performance of the incumbent government and a decision whether to keep…
Nigeria Vs Uganda: New Eagles Face Baptism Of Fire
Nigeria are expected to hand debuts to several of the country’s exciting new stars when they battle the Cranes of…
Messi Tops Football Rich List
Lionel Messi is the highest paid player in the world after banking nearly £1 million a week last year. France…
49 Spaniards, 72 Germans among dead in France air crash
At least 49 Spaniards were among the 150 people killed in the German passenger jet that crashed in the French…
Amaechi continues door-to-door campaign
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Despite the shock defection of Tele Ikuru, the deputy governor, from All Progressive Congress (APC) to the…
Court fails to stop Buhari’s presidential bid
Nnamdi Felix/Abuja A legal plot to stop the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress from contesting the 28 March…
Buhari can’t be stopped, legal move inconclusive
Felix Nnamdi/Abuja A legal plot to stop the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress from contesting the 28 March…
What State Will Decide The Presidential Elections – Poll
Political analysts say votes in five states could decide the outcome of the forthcoming presidential election. The states are, Lagos,…
Five key battlegrounds in Nigeria’s general election
by Ben SIMON/AFP Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and top economy, holds general elections on March 28, in what is…
Chinese restaurant shut down in Kenya for barring blacks
A Chinese restaurant in the Kenyan capital Nairobi has been shut down and its owners summoned by authorities after it…
Ogun Women Will Vote Massively for APC – Onanuga
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Princess Yetunde Onanuga, the deputy governorship designate in Ogun state on the platform of the All Progressives Congress…
Jonathan promises South-East additional state
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday said he would ensure that South-East got equal number of states with other geopolitical zones…
Germanwings cancels flight as pilots refuse to fly
A number of pilots at German low-cost airline Germanwings refused to fly Wednesday following the deadly crash in the French…
Stay 300metres to monitor your vote – Police IG
The Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, has clarified media reports that he said voters should go home after casting their…
Jonathan’s visit to Bauchi diminishes Buhari factor, says Yuguda
Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State said President Goodluck Jonathan’s visit to Bauchi on Monday had diminished the so called…
Trending: Boko Haram kidnaps 400 women in ‘liberated’ Damasak
In a move that brought back bad memories of captured Chibok schoolgirls, Boko Haram militants have staged yet another mass…
I’ll collapse if I see N5bn – says REC accused of taking bribe
The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Akwa Ibom, Mr Austin Okojie, on Tuesday said he would collapse if N5billion was brought…
Cast your vote and leave, IG urges voters
The Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, has advised voters to leave the polling units after casting their votes in the…
Buhari urges supporters to shun violence
Presidential candidate of the APC, Muhammadu Buhari, has called on his party’s supporters to shun violence during and after the…
FG shut all borders, set for election
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered the closure of the country’s land and sea borders before this weekend’s general election,…
David Cameron rules out third term
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday defended his surprise decision to rule out a third term, insisting it was…
Oshiomhole tasks INEC on credible polls
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Ahead of the 28 March, 2015 Presidential election, Governor Adams Oshiomhole has charged the Independent National Electoral…
4 armed robbers, 92 cultists arrested in Rivers
… 2 killed in political clash Okafor Ofiebor/ Port Harcourt Rivers Police Command made a haul of 96 suspected criminals,…
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Court orders NCC, MTN, Airtel, others to pay APC N500m
Akin Kuponiyi A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria has ordered the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to pay…