……Importation of toothpick costs Nigeria 18 million dollars yearly, says Audu Ogbeh
The Nigeria Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbeh has decried the new trend by Nigerians in ordering pizza from London, United Kingdom.
Chief Audu Ogbeh
Nigerians are now using their mobile phones to…Nigerians Ordering Pizza From London, Using British Airways To Deliver
There is prospect Nigerians keen on knowing the truth about specific names of contractors that allegedly collected money for electricity projects but failed to execute any projects, may soon have some answers
SERAP Gets Nod From Court To Compel Fashola To Name Corrupt Contractors
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) worked against his party in the last general election conducted barely a few weeks ago.
INEC Worked Against Us In The Last General Election, says Oshiomhole
A man suspected to be mentally unstable on Saturday jumped to his death from a bank ’s network mast in Sango area of Ibadan.
Man jumps from bank’s mast to death in Ibadan
President Muhammadu Buhari Friday in Abuja assured Christian leaders in the country of his commitment to leave Nigeria better than he met it in 2015.
I’ll Leave Nigeria Better Than I met It – Buhari Tells Christian Leaders
Deji Lambo
Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested five fake estate agents for allegedly defrauding a newly-wed couple of the sum of N900,000, being rent for a three-bedroom flat in the Ikeja area of the state.
The suspects are Elabor Aruoya, who allegedly posed as the…Fake estate agents defraud newly-wed couple, pastor of N3.9m
The Police Command in Jigawa State has arrested a 22-year-old man, Gambo Sa’idu of Badakoshi village in Gwaram Local Government Area, for allegedly beheading his brother during an argument over cattle.
Police
The command Public Relations Officer, SP Audu Jinjiri, who confirmed the incident t…Crime News: Man Beheads Brother Over Cattle in Jigawa State
The Plateau Police Command has arrested a 42-year-old man, Gundumi Saya, over the death of his married lover, one Mrs. Hajara Markus, who died while spending the night with him.
According to the Police charge sheet currently before Justice Daniel Longji of the Plateau State High Court, Jos,…ICYMI: Married woman dies while spending night with polygamous lover
The Esan Youths Movement, an umbrella Socio Cultural development Organization of all Esan people has lend a voice for Esan to emerge as the speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly to balance the composition of government in the state.
Edo State House of Assembly
This demand was contained…Press Release: EYM Canvasses for Esan to emerge EDHA Speaker
A new public survey released today by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) reports high levels of corruption in public institutions in Nigeria for the past 5 years. Of the five major public institutions surveyed, the police emerge as the most corrupt, with the power sector…Police Most Corrupt Institution In Nigeria – SERAP Survey Reveals
The March 23, 2019 rerun governorship election in Sokoto State is perhaps the closest race in Nigeria’s political history. According to official results, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of the People’s Democratic Party won the governorship election by a small margin of 342 votes….On Sokoto Rerun Election, By Usama Dandare
The Personal Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, has stated the reasons the President refused to visit some states to campaign for governorship candidates of his party, All Progressives Congress, after he had won the presidential election of February 23,…Why Buhari Refused To Campaign For APC Candidates After He Winning Election – Aide
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared a former Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, and his wife, Folasade, wanted after they failed to answer for fraud charges filed against them.
EFCC declares Ex-NIA boss, Ayodele Oke, wife wanted
The Governor of Sokoto state, Aminu Tambuwal of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has narrowly beaten his political opponent from the All Progressives Congress Ahmad Aliyu with a slim margin.
Sokoto Election: Aminu Tambuwal Won His Deputy Governor With 341 Votes
By Ehi Ekhator
There has been violence reported across several states where Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is conducting a suplementary election in the north of Nigeria.
INEC declared the elections in Adamawa, Bauchi, Plateau, Kano, and Sokoto inclusive due to several…Supplementary Elections: PDP Voters Attack Across States
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Kano State has rejected the ongoing supplementary governorship election holding in 28 local government areas.
BREAKING: Kano PDP rejects supplementary election
After the March 9 governorship elections across the country, the polls in six states – Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Kano, Plateau and Sokoto – were declared inconclusive.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) explained that the decision to declare the elections inconclusive was derived …APC, PDP battle in supplementary governorship elections in five states (LIVE UPDATES)
… Says judgement rekindles hope for those who felt robbed of their mandate
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has hailed the judgement of Osun State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja which upheld the petition of the PDP Candidate and…Dogara hails PDP victory at Osun Tribunal
Abuja, Nigeria, 22 March 2018: The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections and former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar applauds the judiciary as truly, the defender of Nigeria’s democracy.
Olusegun Obasanjo and Atiku Abubakar
Atiku Abubakar m…Adeleke Judgement: Truly, judiciary is defender of our democracy – Atiku
President Muhammadu Buhari has called on Nigerians to come out en masse and participate in the supplementary elections scheduled for 17 states on Saturday March 23, 2019.
Election in Nigeria
President Buhari, who thanked voters for re-electing him for a second term in office, said he would…Supplementary Elections: President Buhari Urges Voters To Come Out En Masse
says Transparency, Inclusiveness will guide implementation of policies in next four years.
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja assured Nigerians that his administration will in the next four years pursue inclusive and transparent policies that will guarantee security and economic…I’m Committed To Safe, Secured Nigeria, Says Buhari
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has petitioned the National Judicial Council over the violation of the Constitution and Electoral Act by Justice Ekwo Inyang of the Federal High Court by sitting on a matter that ought to have been handled by an election petition tribunal, as created by the…PDP Drags Justice Inyang To NJC Over Bauchi Guber Result Collation
… says those who seek power to oppress like Hitler will meet their Waterloo
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has cautioned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against setting dangerous and evil precedence in the political history of Nigeria by d…INEC setting evil and dangerous precedence with inconclusive polls – Dogara
By Jude Ndukwe
Since the National Assembly elections ended in Kwara on March 9, and the current Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, lost at the polls, those who have lived in mortal fear of one of Nigeria’s finest Senate Presidents ever in history, have not relented in their infantile…Bukola Saraki and the Tragedy of Victory
Edo Nation is losing it. A call for action.
By Leftist Osazee Edigin
Edo State
If you have taken your car to a mechanic workshop or have planned embarking on a building construction project or even putting out an advert for job openings you would have observed that Edo state indigenes are…Wake Up Edo State!
The Presidency has cautioned against a lot of the hate spewing, incitement to violence and the polarizing statements by so-called political leaders as a number of states brace up for supplementary elections prescribed by the National Electoral Commission, INEC.
Buhari
The Presidency also…INEC Is In Charge; President Buhari Won’t Change Election Result, Says Presidency
The State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) in Imo State Charles Ezekwem has accused the state governor, Rochas Okorocha of withdrawing the sum of N17 billion from four banks in three days.
Rochas Okorocha
Ezekwem also accused the governor of converting government properties to…Okorocha Withdraws N17bn From 4 Bank Accounts In Three Days, Says PDP
The building collapse in Lagos Island on Wednesday resulted in a mother, who lost her two children in the incident, committing suicide after she received news of the death of the children.
It was learnt that she gave birth to the two children, who were between the ages of six and four, through…A Mother Who Lost Two Kids In Lagos Building Collapse Commits Suicide
A suspect facing trial for his alleged involvement in the April 5 bank robbery in Offa, Kwara State, has accused the police of forcing him to indict Senate President Bukola Saraki.
Bukola Saraki
The suspect, Friday Akininibosin, was speaking at at a High Court in Ilorin, the Kwara State…Offa Robbery: Police, Abba Kyari Forced Me To Indict Saraki – Suspect
By Ehi Ekhator
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof. Mahmood Yakubu of refusing to obey the March 6, 2019 ruling of the Appeal Court.
Bukola Saraki, Atiku Abubakar and Uche Secondus
The Appeal court had…INEC Refusing Atiku’s Access To Election Material Against Court Order, Says PDP
At least 10 people have been killed in a fresh attack in a community in Kaduna State, a local official said Saturday.
Fulani Herdsmen
Charles Danladi, the chairman Sanga Local Government Council, said the attack happened in Nandu village in the area.
The chairman told the News Agency of…CRIME NEWS: 10 Dead In A New Attack In Kaduna
Also resigns from active partisan politics
The Director-General of Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Organization, Otunba Gbenga Daniel has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Gbenga Daniel
Daniel was the Director-General before Atiku emerged as the presidential candidate of…Otunba Gbenda Daniel Resigns From PDP
Rejects Imo State outcome
By Ehi Ekhator
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator Hope Uzodinma argued on Saturday that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) did not win the governorship election held on the 9th of March in Imo State.
Hope Uzodimma
He rejected…Hope Uzodimma Disagrees With Okorocha, Says He Didn’t Congratulate Ihedioha
Rejects Imo State outcome
By Ehi Ekhator
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator Hope Uzodinma argued on Saturday that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) did not win the governorship election held on the 9th of March in Imo State.
Hope Uzodimma
He rejected…Hope Uzodimma Disagrees With Okorocha, Says He Didn’t Congratulate Ihedioha
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has said that the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, and the party’s governorship candidate, Senator Hope Uzodimma, are to blame for the inability of the party to win the governorship election.
Rochas Okorocha
He s…Election In Imo: Oshiomhole Is To Blame For Party Failure – Okorocha
By John Mighty
An Igbo Woman identified as Grace Ugochukwu has kidnapped Godwin Ibrahim in Mabuchi, along Kafanchan/ Kaduna Express, Kaduna South, Kaduna State.
Godwin, 19, is a secondary graduate. He went missing on the 22nd of January, 2019 after leaving home to Church for a program.
NAIJA…Crime News: Grieving Mother Kidnapped Son’s Look Alike
President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in Daura declared that he would want to be remembered as a leader who kept his word that elections in Nigeria must be free, fair and credible.
Buhari Addressing Staff At Aso Rock
Receiving Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State, who came to formally…I Want To Live A Legacy Of Free, Fair Elections In Nigeria, Says President Buhari
…Over Shooting Of Innocent Ogonis, Hijack Of Election Materials
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State has called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of the Commander of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) in Rivers State, Mr. Akin Fakorede over the unfortunate s…PDP Demands Arrest, Prosecution Of F-SARS Commander Rivers
Suspected armed bandits, on Friday, killed 16 people and injured 18 others at Dumama community in Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State, an official has said.
Gunmen
The lawmaker representing Zurmi/Shinkafi in the House of Representatives, Husseini Moroki, confirmed the report to…Crime News: Suspected bandits kill 16, injure many in Zamfara
The Benin Indigenous People Assembly (BIPA) has described the news of arrest of buses loaded with thugs allegedly from Edo State into Akwa-Ibom as a great shock.
BIPA in a statement shared with NAIJA CENTER NEWS said it was disappointed that some youths were still recruited to commit electoral…Alleged Oshiomhole Thugs Arrested In Akwa Ibom: It’s A Great Shock, Says BIPA
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing Mr Babatunde Fashola SAN has written to Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) promising “to refer the request for details of alleged contractors and companies that collected money for electricity projects and failed to executive any p…Fashola Makes Uturn, Promises To Provide Names Of Corrupt Contractors To SERAP
…even as AAC candidate coasts to victory
*Congratulates security agencies for allowing peaceful elections in Rivers State
Security agencies, especially the armed forces, have been charged to step up guards around the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Rivers state as he has…Rivers Guber: Wike arm-twists REC to declare him winner of elections – Eze
The All Progressive Congress (APC) has won the gubernatorial election in Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo’s polling unit.
APC data Centre
Mr Dankwambo voted at Hassan Manzo 005 in Harwagana ward of Gombe Local Government Area (LGA) of the state.
The APC polled a total of 263 votes to beat t…Gombe: APC wins Gov Dankwambo’s polling unit again
Today, Nigerians vote in their sixth general governorship and state assemblies elections since the country’s return to democracy in 1999.
Voters in 29 states would elect governors while new state assemblies would be elected in the 36 states.
There are no governorship elections in Edo, Ondo, E…#NigeriaDecides2019: Live Results Governors, Lawmakers (LIVE UPDATES)
Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi has said he looked forward to a time when Nigeria would be able to conduct all her elections in one day, possibly through electronic voting.
Fayemi
Speaking shortly after casting his vote at 12:28 am at his country home, at Ward 11, Ogilolo Polling unit in…Elections: Fayemi advocates electronic voting in future elections
Governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, has lamented the low turn out of voters in Saturday’s governorship and house of assembly elections in the state.
The governor who spoke at his unit 20 polling unit, Ward 11, Ibadan South West local government after voting, told journalists the…Elections: Oyo gov decries voters apathy
Today, Nigerians vote in their sixth general governorship and state assemblies elections since the country’s return to democracy in 1999.
Voters in 29 states would elect governors while new state assemblies would be elected in the 36 states.
There are no governorship elections in Edo, Ondo, E…#NigeriaDecides2019: Nigerians elect state governors, lawmakers (LIVE UPDATES)
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) still owes Nigerians explanation on how it expended the humongous resources that accrued to the country from oil sales between 1999 and 2014, President Muhammadu Buhari has said.
Receiving the leadership of organized labour which came to felicitate with him on…Squandered Wealth: PDP Still Has Questions To Answer, Says Buhari
…he doesn’t care about lives
Barely twenty four hours to the Governorship and State House of Assembly elections in Rivers State, former Governor of the State and Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has called on the people of Rivers State not to cast their votes for…Rivers: Wike Is Blood Thirsty – Amaechi
By Our Correspondent
The former transition chair of Owan West Local Government Council of Edo State and a serving member of Edo State House of assembly, Hon. Ojo Asein has been arrested in connection with the kidnapping of Hon. Ohiro Ezomon by the operatives of Nigerian Directorate of Security…Edo Law Maker Allegedly Involved In Kidnapping Of Ohiro Ezomon Cools Off In DSS Facility
…says step will finally retire Wike, Abe from Rivers politics
…commends Amaechi, APC leadership for the foresight
The eventual adoption of the governorship candidate of the African Alliance Congress (AAC), Engr. Awara Biokpomabo, by the leadership of the All Progressives Congress…Adoption of AAC by Rivers APC the road to rescuing Rivers from bad governance – Eze
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC ), Mr Kayode Odu on Thursday said the gubernatorial candidate of APC, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu would win on Saturday.
Jide Sanwoolu
Odu, leader of a new organisation, The Lagos Vision set up to get as many voters in Lagos State to vote…Sanwo-Olu will win on Saturday, says Kayode
The Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has described as a charade and inconsequential, news making the rounds that the factional leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, and Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has adopted a candidate of one…Amaechi’s Adoption Of Guber Candidate, A Charade, Inconsequential – Rivers PDP
Rivers State Government says, the blood of innocent Rivers people who died during the presidential election in Rivers State are in the hands of the Transport Minister Rt Hon Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi no matter how much he sheds crocodile tears.
Rotimi Amaechi
The State Commissioner for…Amaechi Has The Blood Of Rivers On His Hands
President Muhammadu Buhari has described former President Olusegun Obasanjo as “a passionate and great patriot who deserves accolades for his immeasurable contributions to our democracy and national unity.”
Buhari and Obasanjo and Abdulsalami
In a statement to mark Obasanjo’s…President Buhari Commends Chief Obasanjo’s Commitment To Nigeria
By Reno Omokri
If you cannot stand the bitter truth, then better stop reading here, because you will get angry and shorten your lifespan by the truth I am about to reveal here.
Reno Omokri
But if, like Shehu Usman Dan Fodio, you know that conscience is an open wound that only truth can heal,…Message To My Core Northern Brothers
There was a mild drama at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos on February 15, 2019 on the eve of the aborted presidential and National Assembly elections.
Ibrahim Magu
Punch Newspaper reported that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission was barred from investigating…Anti-Corruption war: Presidency Stopped EFCC From Investigating Bulk Of Money Found In A Private Jet
There was a mild drama at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos on February 15, 2019 on the eve of the aborted presidential and National Assembly elections.
Ibrahim Magu
Punch Newspaper reported that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission was barred from investigating…Anti-Corruption war: Presidency Stopped EFCC From Investigating Bulk Of Money Found In A Private Jet
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the Federal Government and state governments to ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja over “the frequent and repressive application of the Cybercrime Act to harass, intimidate, arbitrarily arrest, detain, and unfairly prosecute any…SERAP drags FG, states to ECOWAS Court over ‘attacks on journalists, bloggers’
