Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu currently receiving treatment at a London hospital is “remarkably stable”, a Nigerian official has said. Mr Dozie Nwanna, Nigeria’s Ag. High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK), who visited Ojukwu in the hospital, on Sunday, told the Europe Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria, on Wednesday, in London that, “there was […]
EXPLOSIVES rocked the venue of a campaign rally of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant, Chief Beimor Rufus-Spiff, at Opolo, Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state on Wednesday, but no life was lost. Party faithful that gathered at the venue scampered for safety as the explosives went off around 3.45 p.m. The explosives, Nigerian […]
A former governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, insisted that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was only dreaming about winning elections in Lagos, Ogun and Oyo States,declaring that Nigerians were tired of a ‘poverty party.” In a chat with airport journalists at the Presidential wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, […]
A list containing 14 candidates has been released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the Delta State rerun election, which has been fixed for January 6, 2011. The release, dated December 27, 2010 and signed by the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner for Delta State, Dr Ogbudu Gabriel Ada, contained the names of the […]
Given the momentum of classic drama that characterize most events in Nigeria this year, there will be no shortage of stories that will shape the outgoing year. Many of the stories are, indeed, as different and remarkable as the individuals themselves, their pain behind their fame, the scent behind their successes and failings. It is […]
SINce the advent of democracy in 1999, some National Assembly members have continued to win elections to represent their constituencies, either at the Senate or at the House of Representatives. At the last count, almost a dozen of these federal lawmakers still bestride their districts like colossus. From the Senate President, David Bonaventure Mark, to […]
The recent attempt by federal lawmakers to gatecrash themselves National Executive Committee (NEC) of political parties has exposed the long-running cold war between the National Assembly and the Nigerian Governors’ Forum. Kunle Akogun reports A subtle but very intense struggle for the control of the soul of the nation’s polity is currently raging between two […]
Senate of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called for the immediate resignation of Plateau State governor, Jonah Jang, for his alleged inability to protect the lives and properties of Nigerians in the state. In a statement signed by its Senate President, Nazir Ashiru Galadanchi, after a press briefing yesterday in Abuja, NANS […]
The Bauchi State House of Assembly passed 54 bills out of the 73 it received between June 2007 and October 2010, the Speaker, Alhaji Abubakar Faggo, said on Tuesday. Faggo, who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Bauchi, said 19 out of the 73 bills were still pending before the assembly. According […]
Abia State police command has arrested one Chukwuma Ajapere, alias Barewa, the second-in-command to the late kidnap kingpin in the state, Obioma Nwankwo, alias Osisikankwu. Speaking with journalists in Umuahia, the acting state Commissioner of Police, Mr Kingsley Omire, said the suspect was nabbed in a hideout at the outskirts of Aba, adding that he […]
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