A prominent politician and one time presidential candidate of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC), Alhaji Bashir Othman Tofa, had opened up to LEADERSHIP SUNDAY on how he escaped death when irate youths stormed his house last Monday in the wake of the riot to protest preliminary results of the presidential election. Tofa, who lost […]
The Independent National Electoral Conmmission (INEC) Cross River State, has cancelled observer and vehicle permits ahead of Tuesday’s House of Assembly polls. Though no reasons were given for the action, the INEC directed all those entitled to permits to come foreward for re-validation, re-accreditation and re-issuance. The resident electoral commissioner (REC), Barr. Mike Igini, in […]
Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola has evacuated 70 out of about 200 members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), who are indigenes of the state in the crisis-ridden northern states back home. The corps members who were trapped in crisis-torn states were successfully brought home by a task force set up by Aregbesola. The […]
FOLLOWING the recent violence and series of bomb blast in Kaduna, the State Police Command yesterday, said it has uncovered a bomb making-factory at the Rafin Guza area of Kaduna metropolis, where already manufactured explosives and other weapons were recovered. Conducting journalists round the residential building, where a bomb exploded Friday night, killing one and injuring […]
Akwa Ibom, Osun Evacuate Indigenes ABOUT 3,000 members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) serving in Bauchi State are awaiting evacuation to their states of origin following the continued insecurity in the state. Quartered in the State Security Services (SSS) Development Centre on Maiduguri Road, for the fourth day, some the corps members […]
Dutse-The NYSC coordinator in Jigawa, Mr Baba Ahmed, said he has withdrawn 350 corps members serving in Hadejia local government due to insecurity resulting from post election violence in the area. Ahmed told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview, Friday, in Dutse that the corps members were taken from their places of […]
Former Minister of information and Communication, Prof. Dora Akunyili, has sensationally revealed what transpired in the inconclusive Anambra Central Senatorial District election on April 9, which she contested. In an interview, in her Abuja residence, Akunyili dismisses the bribery allegation made by the former returning officer in the election. She told Saturday Sun that there […]
Barely one week after the presidential election, tragedy struck the household of vice presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Pastor Tunde Bakare, when his Lagos home was gutted by fire yesterday. No life was lost. Saturday Sun gathered that the fire, which affected a section of the building, on Abiodun Olaiya Street, […]
The son of the late Head of State General Sani Abacha, Mohammed, on has asked the Supreme Court to stay the judgment of the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal which invalidated his nomination as the Kano State governorship candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change. In a notice of Appeal by his […]
A bloody violence, which erupted in Ejigbo Community of Osun State, on Thursday, has led to the death of one of the displaced Nigerians that returned from Cote d’Ivoire recently. Investigation by our correspondent showed that troubled started when one of the returnees, who is an indigene, went to Ejigbo Local Government Council to […]
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