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Buhari Meets Jonathan’s Loyalists In Paris

Simon Ateba The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Muhammadu Buhari, may have held a secret meeting last night…

Real reasons APC don’t want soldiers during election – Fani-Kayode

*says Ekiti audio tape leak not enough evidence evidence against use of soldiers The Presidential Campaign Organisation of PDP on…

Boko Haram: Nigeria’s story will change in 3 weeks, says Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan is optimistic that Nigeria’s story will change in the next two or three weeks as it continues…

Aregbesola, APC rigged Osun elections, says Fani-Kayode

Femi Fani-Kayode, Director of Media and Publicity, Presidential Campaign Organisation of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has claimed that Governor…

Benin palace chief, APC chieftains, others on PDP hit list – Edo Govt

Jethro Ibileke/Benin The Edo state government has uncovered the plan of some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders in Abuja to…

Jonathan vows to defeat Boko Haram, commissions warships

President Goodluck Jonathan said in Lagos on Thursday that the Federal Government was working hard to improve the capacity of…

Nigeria troops kill ‘large number’ of Boko Haram fighters in air strike

Nigeria’s air force on Thursday bombed Boko Haram strongholds in northeast Borno state, killing “a large number of terrorists”, as…

Go To Court, SaharaReporters Dares Obanikoro

Online news portal, SaharaReporters, has challenged former Minister of State for Defence and ministerial nominee, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, to go…

Religion, new dimension for another election postponement, says APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has alerted Nigerians to a fresh plot by desperate politicians to circulate leaflets, in mosques…

I was at Ekiti rigging meeting because Jonathan sent me, Obanikoro confesses

Contrary to earlier denials, embattled ministerial nominee, Musiliu Obanikoro, has confessed to several senators in Abuja that he did participate…

I commend Jonathan for assuring to handover, says Buhari

General Muhammadu Buhari, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate has praised President Goodluck Jonathan for assuring Nigerians that he…

Tackling Boko Haram: Nigeria has biggest military force, weakest impact

Four African armies, from Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger, are currently directly engaged in the fight against the Nigeria-based insurgent…

Any other election delay ‘unconstitutional’, says Jega

A further postponement of Nigeria’s general elections beyond the rescheduled polling day of March 28 would be “unconstitutional”, the country’s…

Poll Shift: Over 52m voters have collected PVCs now, says INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday said it had distributed 52,233,396 Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) nationwide, representing 75.88…

Boko Haram leader vows to disrupt Nigeria election

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau vowed to disrupt Nigeria’s general election in a new video released Tuesday, after two suicide…

Patience Jonathan responsible for Okrika bombings, says Amaechi

Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers state has blamed the violence in Okrika, Rivers state on the wife of the president,…

House of Reps Defection: APC now has 181 members, PDP 156

Six Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members of the House of Representatives on Tuesday defected to other political parties particularly that…

Nigeria lacks institutions, processes to prevent corruption, says Okonjo-Iweala

The Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said on Tuesday that corruption persisted in the country because Nigeria lacked the…

Two dead in suicide blast at restaurant in Yobe

Two people were killed in a suicide blast at a restaurant in the northeast Nigerian city of Potiskum on Tuesday,…

Police officer killed, Channels reporter injured in Okrika blast

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt One policeman is feared dead and about 50 All Progressive Congress (APC) including Charles Eruka, reporter of…

Explosion kills 11 at check point in Biu, Borno State

Eleven people were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a checkpoint near the town of Biu in northeast Nigeria…

Explosion, gunfire rock APC rally in Okrika, home of Patience Jonathan

Explosion, gunfire rocked the All Progressives Congress (APC) rally in Okrika, Rivers state today, although casualty figures are yet to…

Sambo Dasuki, DSS biggest threat to national security – El-Rufai

Former minister of the Federal Capital Territory and the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Kaduna state has asserted…

Nigeria has two problematic presidential candidates, says Soyinka

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has described the two major candidates in the 2015 Nigeria’s presidential election as both problematic…

Jonathan’s response to Boko Haram, slow, inadequate, failure of leadership – Soyinka

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has described President Goodluck Jonathan’s response to Boko Haram militants as slow, inadequate and a…

Buhari’s govt, most brutal dictatorship after Abacha – Soyinka

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has described General Muhammadu Buhari, the main opposition presidential candidate in Nigeria as the most…

Elections were postponed to frustrate Buhari – NY Times

The New York Times, in another harsh editorial against the government of President Goddluck Jonathan of Nigeria, has stressed that…

Obasanjo should not have torn his membership card – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party believes that former president of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo should not have ripped his membership card…

Arrest politicians buying PVCs, Oshiomhole tells CP

Jethro Ibileke/Benin Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State on Monday charged the police and other security agencies in the state…

Cameroon army kills 86 Boko Haram militants

Cameroon’s army says it has killed 86 Boko Haram militants and detained 1,000 people suspected of links to the Islamist…
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