Nigerian soldiers have recaptured Gwoza, a town in northeastern Borno state, from members of the Boko Haram sect. A top security source who confirmed the development to TheCable said that Baga and Marte, also in the state, have been recaptured by a combined team of Nigerian and Chadian soldiers. Kukawa, another Borno town, […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared Murtala Nyako, former governor of Adamawa state, and his son, Abdul Aziz, wanted. Wilson Uwujaren, the spokesman of the commission, announced this in a statement issued on Wednesday. “The duo of Murtala Nyako, former governor of Adamawa state and Abdul Aziz Murtala Nyako, are wanted by […]
By Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | Feb. 5, 2015 – The recent advert by Ayo Fayose, the controversial governor of Ekiti state, in which he presented photographs of some formers rulers of the country from the North who died in office and then used innuendo to ask if retired General Muhammadu Buhari would suffer […]
Governor Serikae Dickson, famed as the countryman governor was steeped in leftist political inclination at the onset of the Fourth Republic and was chairman of the Bayelsa State chapter of the Alliance for Democracy, AD. He subsequently defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and was commissioner for Justice in the Goodluck Jonathan administration in […]
Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari, took his campaigns to Lagos on Friday amid pomp. Buhari, as part of his campaigns, paid a courtesy call on the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, and also addressed a mammoth crowd of supporters at a rally held at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, […]
military authorities, on Friday, confirmed that its troops sacked the terrorists who had been occupying Michika and its environs in Adamawa State. This is contained in a statement issued by the Director of Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Chris Olukolade in Abuja. The statement said that extensive mop-up operation and search for arms and stranded terrorists and […]
The Delta State Police Command on Friday said a suspected armed robber, who along with three of his colleagues, forced a victim to withdraw money for them at gunpoint at an ATM point, has died as a result of injuries he sustained in a gun duel with the police. The Delta State Police Public Relations […]
Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole | credits: File copy The Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, on Thursday accused the Peoples Democratic Party-led Federal Government of duping Nigerians by selling kerosene N150 per litre instead of N50. Oshiomhole, who said this while receiving defectors from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress in Benin, the […]
Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross Rivers has assured President Goodluck Jonathan that the state would give him 1.1 million votes in the February 14 poll. Imoke made the promise on Friday during the Peoples Democratic Party presidential rally in Calabar. Imoke, who is the South-South Coordinator of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, said the state […]
President Goodluck Jonathan’s convoy was again stoned on Thursday by some aggrieved youths in Jalingo, Taraba State. Jonathan was in the city in continuation of the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential rally. His convoy had before Thursday been stoned in Katsina and Bauchi states when he went to seek the votes for his re-election bid. It […]
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