Ex-governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, has been extradited from Dubai to the United Kingdom. Online medium, Saharareporters, said Ibori was extradited on Friday by the Interpol. The report said Ibori had tried to escape extradition through ‘a series of complex legal manipulations.’ It said the former governor was re-arrested on Thursday night in […]
Presidential standard bearer of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), shed tears while presenting his speech on the occasion, marking the end of his presidential campaign at the International Conference Centre in Abuja yesterday. Buhari, who was honoured as the ‘Noble Father of Nigerian Youths and the Icon of Nigerian Democracy’ […]
The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday washed its hands off the failure of the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct the National Assembly elections on April 2. It said after its weekly meeting in Abuja that INEC, which it described as an independent body, was granted all its requests prior to the botched elections. […]
The family of ailing ex-Biafran warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, has dismissed as a blatant lie and cheap blackmail, claims by his first son, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu Jnr, on December 23, that his father is still lying critically ill in a London hospital in the same condition he left the country. Speaking through its lawyer, Chief (Sir) […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission appears to be undecided on the fears that it may not hold the National Assembly election on April 9 in Lagos, Rivers, Ogun, Katsina, Ondo, Jigawa, Anambra, Gombe and Imo states, as reported by THE PUNCH today. A senior INEC official had told the paper that the planned shift was […]
The presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), has accused President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of applying undue pressure on the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega. In a statement released Monday by the spokesman of Buhari, Mr. Yinka […]
The National Assembly elections will now hold on Saturday, April 9 and not on Monday (today) as earlier announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega. The new date was made public on Sunday by Jega after a two-hour meeting with the national chairmen of the 63 registered political parties in Abuja. […]
What would have been a bloody clash between supporters of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State was yesterday averted in Owerri by security agents. The development was reportedly a fall out of grievances by the opposition against the PDP over the latter’s refusal to allow the […]
Troops deployment during elections is wrong, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) said yesterday. The Federal Government said on Tuesday that it would send in soldiers to fight thugs during the general elections, which begin on Saturday. The Council of State at its Tuesday meeting endorsed the proposal. But, to the ACN chairman Chief Bisi […]
The National Council of State (NCS) Tuesday rose from a five-hour meeting and asked the Federal Government to deploy military, riot police, the regular police and other security agencies in the streets across the country, 48 hours before the general election which begins on April 2. This is to give impetus to the directive of […]
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