NIGERIA: Senate moves to end unlawful detention
MOVED by the dehumanizing condition which inmates were subjected to in the nation’s prisons, the Senate has begun the process of putting an end to unlawful detention of persons. The...
NIGERIA: Jonathan, Amaechi friction, Rivers youths threaten to dump PDP
Some youths in Rivers State, under the aegis of Rivers Youths Democratic Movement, RYDM, have threatened to dump Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for emergent All Progressives Congress, APC, over perceived...
NIGERIA: Fashola slams PDP
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, described Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as amateurish party, lacking in global development and trend. Fashola spoke against the backdrop of allegation by Publicity...
Two Nigeria men arrested for allegedly poisoning Chinese to steal his goods
The police in Lagos have arrested two men for allegedly poisoning a 61-year-old Chinese businessman, Zhang Bofan, and later duping him of N2.5m. The suspects, Ifeanyi Ndubuisi and Roland Okorie...
NIGERIA: The South-West political bride begins second term – Mimiko
CALL him the most-sought after political bride of the South-West geo-political zone and you may be right. At a time of massive political alignment and re-alignment ahead of the 2015...
NIGERIA: They’re after me – Governor Aliyu
Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State and Chairman of Northern Governors Forum, has alleged clandestine plans by people close to the Presidency to enroll him into an imaginary conspiracy. Governor...
NIGERIA: Jonathan can contest in 2015 – Tukur
AHEAD of 2015 presidential election, National Chairman of People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, yesterday, said there was nothing wrong if the party presents President Goodluck Jonathan for the...
NIGERIA: 20 scholars write on Obasanjo legacy
No fewer than 20 eminent scholars including former Commonwealth Secretary-General, Emeka Anyaoku, Bishop Mathew Kukah among others have teamed up to publish a book entitled “Olusegun Obasanjo: The Presidential Legacy...
NIGERIA: Accident claims 8 lives on Lagos-Ibadan expressway
Eight persons, including a child, were killed on Sunday when a commercial bus and an articulated vehicle collided near the Redeemed Camp on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, the FRSC said. The...
NIGERIA: Fayemi’s N5m donation tears church apart
THE N5million donated to the Millennium Anglican Church, Odo Owa Ekiti by Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, is allegedly tearing the church apart. It would be recalled that Fayemi...