DSS Lied Against IPOB Over Killing of Five Northerners – Igbo Groups Say
South-East based groups, the Igbo Women Assembly, IWA, and the Igbo Youth Movement, IYM, Sunday, described as falsehood allegation by the Department of State Services, DSS, over the killing of five Northerners. The DSS had alleged that the five Northerners…
Okwy Nwodo, Emeka Worgu, Others Defect to APC
A former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo; former Minister of Labour and Productivity, Dr Emeka Worgu and former House of Representatives Speaker, Agunwa Anakwe, yesterday defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu….
PDP Senator Joins APC
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lost Senator Smart Adeyemi, a key player to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi state. Adeyemi’s defection to the ruling party was confirmed in a statement issued by the governor of Kogi,…
Ambode Govt. Launches Online Access to State Laws
The Governor Akinwunmi Ambode-led Lagos State Government has announced the launch of an online platform where lawyers, investors and the general public can have access to all the laws of the state. This was disclosed by the State’s Attorney General…
BREAKING: PDP Declared Winner of Ife Assembly Rerun Election
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in Ife Central House of Assembly legislative re-run poll, Dipo Eluwole has won the election. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared  him winner of the election. The Returning Officer of INEC, Francis Oladimeji, announced the result…
Fayose Tackles Buhari Over Planned VAT Increment
The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, on Sunday criticised President Muhammadu Buhari, over the planned increase of the Value Added Tax, VAT, by five per cent. The governor, who was reacting to comments attributed to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in…
Dangote Builds $1Bn Cement Plant in Edo
The Dangote Group on Sunday started constructing a one billion dollars cement factory in Okpella, Edo State, to expand its cement production in Nigeria. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the six million metric tonnes per annum (mmtpa) Okpella…
APC’s Dikko Wins Bwari Area Council Election
Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Area Council chairmanship election, Musa Dikko, has been declared winner of the Bwari Area Council after Saturday’s council elections in the FCT. He defeated his closet rival,…
Man Who Attempted To Kill Lover Docked
A 35 year-old man, Sambo Soliu, was on Friday, arraigned before an Ebute-metta Chief Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, for attempting to kill his live-in partner, Amusalat Busayo Agbaje, age 24. The defendant, a native of Ilorin, the Kwara state capital, was…
Court Orders EFCC To Pay PDP Chieftain, Uche Secondus N10bn Damages Over Arrest, Detention
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday awarded N10 bn as damages in favour of the former Acting Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, over his arrest by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)….
Murder: Ibinabo Gets Bail After Conviction
The embattled ex-beauty queen, Ibinabo Fiberesima, was on Wednesday, breath sign of temporary relief as the Lagos Division of Court of Appeal, granted her bail pending the determination of her case at the Supreme Court over five years imprisonment slammed…
