Elections: IPC, NPC Present Media Monitoring Report Thursday
The International Press Centre (IPC) and the Nigeria Press Council (NPC) are set to release the report of the monitoring of the coverage of the 2015 elections by selected newspapers, online media and social media platforms in the month of…
Obanikoro Named Minister of State 2 as New Ministers Get Portfolio
Senator Musiliu Obanikoro has emerged as the Minister of State 2 for Foreign Affairs. This followed the inauguration of new ministers by President Goodluck Jonathan shortly before the commencement of the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday. The new…
FG Cuts Electricity Tariff By Over 50 Percent
Amid agitation for reduction in electricity tariff, which had been on for several months, especially for industrial users, Nigeria’s Federal Government on Tuesday announced over 50 per cent reduction in the tariff. The new tariff was announced by the Chairman/CEO…
Damaging Documentary: Make Public Pronouncement on Alpha Beta, Others – Anti-graft Coalition Tells Tinubu
The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) urged former governor of Lagos State Ahmed Bola Tinubu to go beyond obtaining injunction restraining African Independent Television (AIT) from airing documentary on him and make public pronouncement on his stake in a company…
15 Health Facilities Shut By FG
About 15 health facilities has been closed down by the federal government in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja for operating medical laboratory regarded to be below standard. According to The Nation report that the Registrar and Chief Executive Officer…
‪Suspected‬ Fraudster Arraigned for Contract Scam
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday arraigned one Ogbonaya Chibuzor before Justice D.V Agishir of the Federal High Court Enugu, Enugu State for offences bordering on advanced fee fraud and obtaining money by false pretence. Details later
Study: China has Grown to World’s 3rd-biggest Arms Exporter
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN BEIJING (AP) — China has overtaken Germany to become the world’s third-biggest arms exporter, although its 5 percent share remains small compared to the combined 58 percent of exports from the U.S. and Russia, a new study…
APC Knocks PDP Over State of Enugu International Trade Fair
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has chided the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP-led federal government over its failure to construct the permanent site of Enugu International Trade Fair complex six years on, Daily Post reports. Spokesperson of APC in the South-East…
Why Buhari will not agree to a debate with Jonathan By Femi Aribisala
In all my years of studying elections, I have never seen a campaign as bogus as that of Muhammadu Buhari. It is amazing that, for a man who is running for election as president for a marathon fourth time, Buhari…
INEC Petitioned Over Alleged Non-distribution of PVCs in 24 Lagos Wards
â– Alimosho, Ifako, Ikeja, Mainland LGAs affected The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has been petitioned over alleged deliberate mismanÂagement of Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, distribution in five Local Government Areas of LaÂgos State. The development is said to have…
Prof Nwabueze, Agbakoba, others Initiate Intervention Commission On 2015 Elections
Icon of the Civil Society Movement and Former President of Nigerian Bar Association, Barr Olisa Agbakoba, SAN has been named as the arrow head of the intervention of coalition of leaders of thought and political activists in the torrential build…
