Fresh troubles await former Edo State governor, Lucky Igbinedion, as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has prepared over 100 fresh charges against him. The new charges border on a fresh case of N25b fraud and the former governor may be dragged to court on Monday (tomorrow). Already, a manhunt has been declared for Igbinedion, […]
The chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum, and the outgoing governor of Kwara State, Dr Bukola Saraki, yesterday picked the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) ticket for Kwara Central Senatorial District. He emerged as the winner of the re-run primary election. Saraki polled 1,044 votes to beat Mallam Yonus Abdulrahman who scored 13 votes and Alhaji LAK […]
THE senatorial ambition of Senator Iyiola Omisore, Chairman Senate Committee on Appropriation may have suffered a setback as the Electoral Appeal Panel set up by the National Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) disqualified him from the re-run senatorial race in Osun State. Also, a retrial Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Osogbo has nullified […]
ANAMBRA State Governor, Peter Obi, yesterday explained why he had not participated in the ongoing voter registration in the country. In a live Radio Programme on Rhythm FM, Awka —Viewpoints — the governor said the delay was necessitated by the need to ensure that all eligible citizens of the state are duly registered. Obi, who […]
A deadly spate of sectarian violence in Nigeria’s central Plateau State since December 24, 2010, has killed more than 200 people, Human Rights Watch said today. The victims, including children, have been hacked to death, burned alive, “disappeared,” or dragged off buses and murdered in tit-for-tat killings. The Nigerian government should act swiftly to protect […]
Soldiers in a central Nigerian city opened fire Saturday on university students protesting continuing violence between Christians and Muslims, witnesses said, with at least five people killed in the ensuing violence. The shooting came as gas stations and a farmer’s market smouldered after late Friday violence that sparked when Christian students attacked Muslims trying to […]
Jos riot A serving riot police officer, Corporal Mohammed Uba, was yesterday arrested along with 29 other Fulani gunmen following an attack on three villages in Barkin Ladi Local Government area of Plateau State in which at least 12 people were killed. Another four persons were confirmed killed in Bauchi State, while several others sustained […]
Late Fannami Funeral Led by Imam Idaini of Borno, Adam Asil Kyari in Maiduguri The remains of slain governorship candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) in Borno state, Alhaji Modu Fannami Gubio, younger brother of Governor Ali Modu Shreriff, Alhaji Goni Sheriff and five others were Saturday committed to mother earth amid wailing […]
Barely two weeks after the ANPP primary elections in Borno State, the party’s gubernatorial candidate, Alhaji Fanami Gubio, and 6 others were yesterday shot dead by unknown gunmen. President Goodluck Jonathan, who is on an official engagement in Addis Ababa, condemned the killing and vowed that government will do everything possible to bring the perpetrators […]
The riot had spread from Kabba to Ayetoro-Gbede in Ijumu and to Mopamuro Council by yesterday. As a result, delegates to today’s rerun senatorial and House of Representatives primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lokoja and Kabba could not travel and had to turn back. Windscreens of buses conveying some delegates identified to be supporters of a […]
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