NIGERIA: Poll Shift Costing EU N435m
The recent shift in the dates of the general election will cost the European Union (EU) Election Observer Mission (EOM) in Nigeria 1.8 million Euros (about N435 million) in additional...
Obanikoro: We’re Fighting a Borderless Strange War against Terror
A former Minister of State for Defence and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, has described the ongoing counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations against the Boko Haram...
Endorsement: Buhari’s bribe tears northern pastors apart
Actually, we were told that Gen. Buhari wanted to have an audience with us regarding his presidential aspiration. The idea was that it was going to be an interactive session....
Group Warns FG against Media Clampdown
The Stop Impunity Nigeria (S.I.N) Campaign has expressed concern over reports of an imminent federal government clampdown on the media, warning that such a move would put the democratic process...
Polls: Mbu Orders Police to Shoot Electoral Offenders in Self-defence
The Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 2, AIG Mbu Joseph Mbu, Thursday ordered his men to shoot any electoral offenders who first shoot at his men, as a means...
Group Flays First Lady, TAN, for Humiliating Dickson at Campaign Ground
The Bayelsa State-based Grassroots Initiatives has totally condemned what it described as a show of shame, the action of the First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, and her Women for a...
NIGERIA: Man Marries Spiritual Wife In Ikoyi
Pandemonium broke loose when a man in ikoyi applied to the marriage registry to get married to a woman whom he alleged to be a spiritual entity. Apparently, the young...
EU Mission requires additional 1.8m euros to monitor deffered polls
Abuja — The European Union Election Observation Mission said, yesterday, that it required additional €1.8 million (N429 million) to be able to sustain its team in Nigeria as a result...
Election Postponement: INEC messed everything up — Fani-Kayode
Chief Femi Fani- Kayode, a lawyer, a politician, was Minister of Aviation. He is presently the director, Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation. In...
Nigeria Labour Congress confab ends in chaos
As election fails to hold over allegations of rigging ABUJA — The 11th quadrennial delegates conference of the NLC ended in a fracas in Abuja, yesterday, as delegates upturned ballot...