The deadly militant group based in Niger Delta region, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), has carried out a devastating attack in Bayelsa State, destroying oil installations belonging to Agip. The attack was carried out after the expiration of a seven-day ultimatum issued by aggrieved ex-militants in the Niger Delta over their […]
The Minister for Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu has said that the federal government will soon wield the big stick against public officers travelling abroad for medical attention. He, however, said such trip will only be allowed if there is a proven fact that the attention the public officer seeks is not available in Nigeria either […]
Ex-deputy Governor of Kebbi State, Alhaji Suleiman Argungu and incumbent national organising secretary of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), has said that Boko Haram is not targeted at President Goodluck Jonathan, as the group also wreaked havoc during the late President Umar Musa Yar’Adua government. He said that the Yar’Adua government goofed when leader […]
The Federal Government has mobilized virtually all security agencies in the country to put Osun State governor, Engr Rauf Aregbesola on 24-hour surveillance over an intelligence report generated by the Department of State Security (DSS) which accused the governor of creating an army of Islamic jihadists as a prelude to seceding from the Federal Republic […]
Almost three years away from the 2015 presidential election, political tempers are already rising across the country over suspected moves by President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the poll. Towards this end, prominent Niger Delta leaders, including First Republic information minister, Chief Edwin Clark have been making comments, warning that nothing will stop their kinsman from […]
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said he was going to use as scapegoats heads of parastatals that have been indicted by security report for lobbying the National Assembly to have their budgets increased, blaming them for failed budget implementations in the past. Jonathan dropped the bombshell after signing the 2012 Appropriation Bill into law at his […]
THE proposed plan by the Bayelsa State governor, Honour-able Henry Dickson, to hold a “peace walk” in Yenagoa, the state capital, was, on Thursday, criticised by a group, under the aegis of the Bayelsa Democratic Front (BDF), which said the development may “precipitate chaos of unprecedented magnitude in the state.” The government said the event […]
THE Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has carpeted the state governors for their insistence on sharing funds from the Excess Crude Account, which now has a balance of $3.6billion rather than saving it in the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF). The minister, who spoke at the first Civil Society […]
THE Boko Haram sect has said it intends to bring down the government and “devour” President Goodluck Jonathan within three months, its purported leader said in his second al Qaeda-style video posted on the Internet on Thursday. The 14-minute video of Abubakar Shekau seen on YouTube belittled Jonathan for saying two weeks ago that the […]
Written by Udeme Utip, Uyo Friday, April 13, 2012 POLICE in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, have uncovered a mysterious factory where young girls are made to conceive, give birth and the babies later sold to suspected ritualists and other members of the public in Uruan Local Government Area of the state. The new babies, Nigerian […]
Lagos Court sentences serving Nigerian senator to 7 years for money laundering Posted on: Jul 1st, 2022
Why Buhari is interested in keeping Nnamdi Kanu incarcerated – Ohanaeze chieftain Posted on: Jun 30th, 2022
Ekweremadu Appears Before UK Court Over Organ Harvesting Charges Posted on: Jun 30th, 2022
Why I Did Not Implement Report Of 2014 National Conference – Jonathan Posted on: Jun 29th, 2022Breaking News: Former Nigerian Senate Deputy President, Ike Ekweremadu, wife arrested for alleged conspiracy to harvest the organs of a child Posted on: Jun 23rd, 2022
Ndigbo Need a Consensus - By Tochukwu Ezukanma Posted on: Jun 21st, 2022
Birthing the Nigerian Spirit - By Prof. Leonard K. Shilgba Posted on: Jun 21st, 2022Imo West 2023: On Goodluck Nanah Opiah We Stand - By Kenneth Uwadi Posted on: Jun 21st, 2022
Still on Osun Governorship Election - By Abiodun Komolafe Posted on: Jun 21st, 2022
Who Wins Osun Governorship Election? - By Abiodun Komolafe Posted on: Jun 21st, 2022
The Answer is in Secularism - By Tochukwu Ezukanma Posted on: Jun 3rd, 2022
Sowore Needs to Graduate from “Students’ Union” Mentality - By Olalekan Adigun Posted on: May 22nd, 2022
Nigeria: the Problem is More of Elitism - By Tochukwu Ezukanma Posted on: May 19th, 2022
Civic Engagement: the Osun Example - By Abiodun Komolafe Posted on: Apr 15th, 2022
Ilesa Varsity and PDP’s Diversionary Therapy - By Abiodun Komolafe Posted on: Apr 14th, 2022
© 2022 New Nigerian Politics. All Rights Reserved. Log in - Designed by Gabfire Themes