Abuja – Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, the Director of Media and Publicity of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, says he will remain in the party in spite of its defeat in the March 28 and April 11 general elections.
Fani-Kayode said this while fielding questions from State House correspondents i…We will provide a virile opposition to the APC – Fani-Kayode
Below is A text of Press Briefing by Director Defence Information, Major General Chris Olukolade at Defence Headquarters, Abuja on April 30, 2015
-Rescued Women Undergoing Thorough Profiling
-True Identities of some Freed Victims Yet to be ascertained
-Terrorist Field Commanders Killed …Update On Military Operation In Sambisa Forest
President Goodluck Jonathan has, for the first time, questioned the results of the March 28 presidential election, maintaining that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is still the dominant party in Nigeria.
Jonathan had congratulated Muhammadu Buhari, candidate of the All Progressives Congress…Jonathan Openly Questions Buhari’s Victory For The First Time
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan pledged Thursday in Abuja that he will do all within his powers to ensure that all Nigerian territory still held by terrorists and insurgents are totally liberated before May 29, 2015.
Receiving a delegation of Heads of Customs from the West and Central African R…I’ll make sure territories held by terrorists are liberated before I leave – Jonathan
Show-stopping veteran entertainer, Charly Boy Oputa has declared his intention to ride his bike from Abuja to China in honour of the president-elect Maj.Gen Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) if he (Buhari) can make a dollar equal to a naira after his swearing-in on May 29, 2015.
It will be recalled…Make dollar equal to naira, i ride from Abuja to China – Charly Boy dares Buhari
Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has attributed the current fuel scarcity to the misrule of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP.
Atiku who spoke to Journalists yesterday after a private meeting with the President-Elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari at the Defence House in Abuja said they the …Blame PDP government for fuel scarcity – Atiku
…….son kills father too
MEN of the Enugu police command are presently investigating double tragedy in the State in which a son hacked his father to death, while in another separate incident, a mother was beaten to death by her own son.
Police Inspector General, Solomon Arase
The State Public Rel…Sons hacks father, mother to death in Enugu
Lagos – A middle-aged-man, Collins Nduka, on Thursday pleaded with an Ojo Customary Court in Lagos State to order his wife, Sefinat Nduka, to refund N1.4 million he spent in marrying her.
Collins told the court that his wife, whom he married three years ago, had decided to abandon her m…Husband wants wife to refund N1.4m marriage expenses
The Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has dismissed the allegation by the All Progressives Congress, APC, that the State Governor-elect, Chief Barr Nyesom Wike plans to defect to the APC as malicious, baseless and a mere wishful thinking of the propagators of such…PDP dismisses allegation of Wike’s defection to APC
ABUJA—THE President- elect, General Muhammadu Buhari yesterday painted a gloomy picture in the economic development of his administration as he said that the decline in the revenues due to fall in oil prices poses a great threat to his administration’s development agenda.
Gen. Buhari who visited …Falling oil prices threaten my agenda – Buhari
Ado Ekiti—The All Progressives Congress (APC), in Ekiti State has accused the state government of alleged plans to induce the state work-force into a prolonged labour crisis so as to prevent APC lawmakers in the Assembly from carrying on with the impeachment proceedings against the governor.
A s…Impeachment: Ekiti APC accuses Fayose of stage-managing labour unrest
ASABA—Delta State governor-elect, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, has inaugurated three committees comprising 98 persons for a smooth transition process.
Ifeanyi Okowa
Speaking during the inauguration at Government House, Asaba, Senator Okowa informed Deltans that he would ensure equity and fairness in ru…Okowa inaugurates 98-man transition committees in Delta
It is not a book club, a yoga club or a theatre club, but about 100 South African wives rely on their own social group to meet and share their experience of prejudice for being married to foreigners.
They say that having Nigerian husbands exposes them to daily discrimination, and that they had…Having Nigerian husbands exposes us to daily discrimination – South African women
UGHELLI—AN Urhobo militant group, Urhobo Gbagbako, yesterday, claimed responsibility for two explosions that rocked two major gas trunklines belonging to the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, located on the boundaries of Afiesere and Ekredjebo communities and Otedo and Edjovwe co…Urhobo militant group blows up gas trunklines in Delta
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday sacked Mallam Habib Abdullahi as the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority.
He has also named Alhaji Sanusi Bayero as his replacement.
In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, the President said Bayero’s a…Jonathan sacks Nigerian Ports Authority’s MD
Justice J. Liman of the Federal High Court, Benin, on Wednesday convicted Charles Eboigbodin and Michael Igbinedion, younger brother to Lucky Igbinedion, former Edo State governor.
The duo alongside their companies: Gava Corporation Limited; Romrig Nigeria Limited; PML Securities Company Limited…N25Bn Scam: Judge convicts Igbinedion, others
ABUJA—President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), said yesterday that he was not aware of the temporary ban imposed on African Independent Television, AIT, not to cover his official functions.
Consequently, he instructed all his aides, including the security team, to steer clear of all m…I am not aware of ban on AIT, says Buhari
The military authorities have taken the 293 women and girls rescued by the Special Forces during a raid on the dreaded Sambisa Forest to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Maiduguri, Borno State.
Kenneth Minimah, Nigeria’s Chief of Army StafNigerian soldiers
An intelligence off…Rescued girls undergo pregnancy, HIV tests – Military
The Federal Government has condemned the execution of four Nigerians by the Indonesian authorities over drug-related offences, despite pleas for clemency by President Goodluck Jonathan.
Nigerians executed in Indonesia
The government, while commiserating with the families of the deceased,…FG condemns, demands corpses of executed Nigerians in Indonesia
One of the top contenders for the Senate presidency, Senator George Akume, and the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday met at the Lagos home of Tinubu.
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Senator George Akume
Our correspondent learnt that at the meeting which…Akume, Tinubu meet in Lagos over Senate presidency
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday struck out an application seeking fresh investigations into the murder of a late governorship aspirant in Lagos, Funsho Williams.
Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, who struck out the application for want of diligent prosecution, also awarded a cost of…Court strikes out fresh suit on Funsho Williams’ murder
President Elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated a 19-member transition committee with a charge to members not to engage in a witch hunt or fault finding.
He also announced that his administration would not witch-hunt anybody because he was aware that government is a continuum.
Buhari said…Buhari warns committee members not to witch hunt anyone
he Federal Government on Wednesday warned against utterances and actions that are capable of portraying the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), as running a parallel government at a time President Goodluck Jonathan is still fully in charge.
Minister of National Planning, Dr. Abubakar…Jonathan still in charge, don’t run parallel government – FG warns Buhari
President-Elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, pledged to work with the incoming 8th N’Assembly as development partners to tackle corruption and scale down drastically, the cost of running government.
Buhari stated this while addressing a joint session of the re-elected and fresh members …Corruption: Buhari vows to work with National Assembly
Girls rescued from Boko Haram terror camps in Sambisa Forest on Tuesday are “not the Chibok girls,” Nigerian Army spokesman Sani Usman said.
However, one official did not rule out that captives from other Boko Haram camps that were raided might include some of the 200 girls abducted in April 201…Sambisa Forest: Rescued girls not Chibok Girls – Nigerian military
