With the March 28 Presidential election two days away, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, desperate to secure victory by all means and at whatever cost, has concluded arrangements to purchase result sheets for the Presidential and National Assembly elections. PDP, according to the Greater Together Campaign Organisation, GTCO, working in agreement with […]
…Plans Mass Burial For Dead Members FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu – A faction of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), says it has concluded arrangements for the naming of a new leader, and mass burial of its members killed in the struggle. This is coming as the crisis of […]
From Ganiyu Nasirudeen – The Inspector General of Police, Suleimon Abba has ordered against the presence of para military agencies’ officers, such as Boys Scout, Vigilante Group, Boys Brigade, Peace Ambassador, Man ‘O War within 300 metres of a polling unit. Similarly, he has directed the restriction of vehicular movement during the Saturday, March 28 […]
Chief Anabs Sara Igbe, Kalabari leader and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has reaffirmed his resolve to vote for Dr. Dakuku Peterside, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Rivers State regardless of his membership of PDP. Sara Igbe also promised to vote for General Muhammadu Buhari, presidential candidate of the […]
Some leaders including the German, Angela Merkel, French Francois Hollande and Spanish Mariano Rajoy have visited the scene of Tuesday, Germanwings plane crash. During the visit, the leaders were briefed on their mission at the crash site of the Airbus A320 – flight 4U 9525 flying from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, but came down after an […]
Ahead of the March 28 General elections, Rivers State Governor and Chairman of the Nigeria Governor’s Forum, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has accused President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP of breaching the Abuja Peace accord. He accused Mr. President and the PDP of inciting violence in the country. Amaechi stated this […]
From Mustapha Abdul Salaam – Defence Headquarters has announced it had restrained two Aljazeera Television journalists who were found loitering around areas in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, North Eastern Nigeria, where military operations are still ongoing. The journalists, named Ahmed Idris and Mustafa Andy were noticed to have been moving around various locations including […]
PARIS — As officials struggled Wednesday to explain why a jet with 150 people on board crashed amid a relatively clear sky, an investigator said evidence from a cockpit voice recorder indicated one pilot left the cockpit before the plane’s descent and was unable to get back in. A senior French military official involved in […]
Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court, Abuja has adjourned further proceedings in all suits relating to the challenge of the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Mohammadu Buhari’s alleged certificate irregularities to April 22 and 23. There are four of such cases before the judge. He said it was impossible […]
The Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, Ima Niboro may have opened a discreet investigation of key officers of the agency who took advantage of the ill health of the immediate past CEO, Dame Oluremi Oyo to pillage the assets and resources of NAN. Sources informed that the current managing director is […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Asaba – The people of Oteri community in Ughell North council Area of Delta State, on Monday staged a protest over alleged Extra Judicial Killing of its people. They had during the protest demanded a probe into the killing of the community’s vice Chairman, one Mr. Blessing Unusiefe. The aggrieved community also […]
Boko Haram militants have kidnapped more than 400 women and children from the northern Nigerian town of Damasak that was freed this month by troops from Niger and Chad, residents said on Tuesday. There was no immediate official confirmation of the figure, but the Islamist group has previously carried out mass kidnappings. Boko Haram’s abduction […]
The All Progressives Congress on Tuesday said it would sue the federal government for contempt of court if it failed to abide by the recent judgments that restrained it from deploying troops for elections. Rather, the party asked President Goodluck Jonathan and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to abide by the decisions of two […]
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Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – A group under the aegis of Coalition for Democracy and Credible Election (CODECE) has predicted that President Goodluck Jonathan and Peoples Democratic Party candidate will win the Saturday presidential election by a cumulative margin of 61.03 percent as against the 38. 95 percent ascribed to General Mohammadu Buhari of the All […]
From Ignatius Okpara (Enugu) and Ayo Balogun (Lagos) – Fashola said the IGP and others clamouring for such move and asking the electorate to stay 300 metres away from the polling unit were simply election riggers, as the electoral act did not forbid electorate from waiting after the election until the votes were counted. The governor, […]
A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the Nigerian Communications Commission and other 5 telecom company to pay the All Progressives Congress N500m for unlawfully shutting down the party’s presidential campaign fund-raising platform. Justice Ibrahim Buba gave the order on Tuesday in Lagos. The affected telecom companies are Etisalat, MTN, Globacom, Airtel Nigeria and […]
Plans to cause maximum harm to election officials and voters in Rivers State on Saturday, March 28 during the Presidential election by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have been condemned and described as evil. To that effect, the Greater Together Campaign Organisation, GTCO, has warned PDP to lay down such dastardly and satanic plans, noting […]
Passenger plane for the airline Germanwings flying from Barcelona to Dusseldorf has crashed in southern France, officials have confirmed. The Airbus A320 making the flight for Lufthansa’s lowcost arm, Germanwings, crashed near the small mountain village of Barcelonette in the southern Alps. It had made a distress call at 10.47am then disappeared off the radar […]
Pro-democracy activist and Senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna State, Comrade Shehu Sani, has described the government of President Goodluck Jonathan, as an affliction on the people of Nigeria in the last six years. Sani who spoke at a sensitization workshop organized by the Buhari/osinbajo Youths Support Groups as well as […]
