Guber Election: We’re Not Afraid of Opposition Party, Says Gov. Dickson
Gov. Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa on Saturday urged his followers to be confident of victory in the Dec. 5 election in the state and not to be afraid of those in the opposition. Dickson spoke during his campaign rally in…
#Nnamdi Kanu: Why CD Backs pro-Biafra Protesters, Urges Ndigbo Youths to Shun Fr. Mbaka Ministry
With tension rising higher as a result of the activities of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB), which refused to be intimidated by threats by security forces in…
Court Orders DSS to Produce Kanu, Radio Biafra Director, November 23
AS demonstrations over the continued detention of leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu rages in the South-East and some parts of South-South, an Abuja Chief Magistrate Court ,yesterday ordered the Department of State Services (DSS) to…
Biafra Protests in Nigeria Driven by Poverty, Neglect, Injustice – Daily Mail
Forty-five years after a brutal civil war, Nigeria is facing a new wave of protests for a separate Biafran state, driven by long-standing complaints about poverty, neglect and injustice. The impetus for the current agitation is not much different from…
Stewardship: Lamorde Drags Senate, Police, DSS to Court
The immediate past Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Larmode, has sued the Senate at the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja for inviting him to appear before it and give account of his stewardship as…
Why FG Won’t Let Dasuki Travel for Treament – AGF, Malami
The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) has explained why the government refused to obey two court orders clearing former National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki, to travel for medical treatment. According to the…
Revealed: How Online Population Would Hit 5Bn By 2020
The world’s online population will double to five billion by 2020 presenting “huge” business opportunities for tech start-ups on the cutting edge of the unprecedented expansion, the head of Google Europe said Thursday. “The connected population is going to double…
Fuel Subsidy Gets 88 Percent of N465bn Supplementary Budget
The Senate on Wednesday received request from President Muhammadu Buhari for the approval of N465.64 billion Supplementary Budget for government activities in remaining part of 2015. Out of the amount, subsidy payment on supply of petrol was allocated N413.36 billion,…
Scores Killed in Kano GSM Market Twin Blasts
Many were feared dead in Kano, Wednesday, from twin blasts at the heart of GSM market, Nassarawa GRA. Eyewitnesses said that the Improvised Explosive Device was planted close to the generator serving the market, while the second bomb went off at the…
Senate Clears Lagos to Obtain $200million World Bank Loan
The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on Wednesday approved $200 million loan request by the Lagos State government. This followed deliberation of the report of Ad-hoc Committee on Foreign and Local debt to which the request was referred…
Kogi Election: 13,000 Workers to Man 3,000 Polling Units
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has said the commission had recruited and trained 13,000 supervisory and electoral officials to man the 3,000 polling units across Kogi State in the state’s November 21 gubernatorial election….