The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has raised the alarm over what it declined as calculated attempts by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to instigate violence and breakdown of law and order in Akwa Ibom State. The plot, which the main opposition party said, was meant to be replicated in other littoral states under the control […]
Continue ReadingDr Bukola Saraki says he has been vindicated Senate President, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, Wednesday asked the Presidency to institute a judicial inquiry into the reported death of the principal suspect in the April 5, 2018 deadly Offa bank robbery attacks, Michael Adikwu. This followed eventual disclosure by the Police that Adikwu is dead. Saraki […]
Continue ReadingBarely a month after the All Progressives Congress (APC) lost four members of its caucus to other political parties, two more members of the party announced their resignation on the floor of the House of Representatives on Wednesday. The defecting lawmakers announced their resignations in separate letters to the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara where they cited […]
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orders investigation of Akwa Ibom assembly seal-up The Senate on Wednesday directed its Committee on Police Affairs to investigate the alleged harassment, intimidation and molestation by security, before, during and after the Kwara House of Representatives by-election which held last Saturday. This was sequel to a point of order raised by the Senator representing Kwara […]
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan says he laughs anytime people try to run down his administration as a clueless one. The former President said this in his recently published book titled, ‘My Transition Hours’. He said, “Sometimes I laugh when certain propagandists attempt to stand logic on its head by maligning my administration as one bereft […]
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Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has revealed how western and local powers cost him his re-election bid for a second term in office. He noted that the former U.S. president Barack Obama and former governors of his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) collaborated to make sure he did not return to power in 2015. In his […]
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The West African Examination Council (WAEC) on Wednesday announced that about 39,557 Nigerian candidates who wrote the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) got credits in the required five subjects including Mathematics and English Language to advance their academic pursuits. Head of West African Examination Council (WAEC), Olu Adenipekun, made the disclosure while addressing […]
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US President Donald Trump thanked Saudi Arabia on Wednesday for lower oil prices — a day after pledging the US would remain a “steadfast partner” of the kingdom despite the murder of a dissident journalist. “Oil prices getting lower. Great! Like a big Tax Cut for America and the World. Enjoy! $54, was just $82,” […]
Continue ReadingDr Agbakoba Ahead of the 2019 general elections, a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Dr. Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), has said that the coalition of forces will officially unveil its consensus presidential candidate by January next year. This is just as he described the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari as the worst in the history […]
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Clerk of Anambra State House of Assembly, Mr Pius Udoh, has said that the sealing of the Assembly complex was to ensure the safety of workers in the legislature. Udoh said on Wednesday in Awka, that the legislators failed to operate within the confines of the law guiding the civil service in the complex, to ensure safety […]
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