•Four journalists escape death by the whiskers •Card reader fails to recognise Jonathan again; rejects Dickson, wife, mother The guns boomed yesterday in Bayelsa State as voters went to the polls to elect a new governor for the next four years. Five people laid dead by the time the guns went quiet. Four journalists covering […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alh. Yahaya Bello as the winner of the Kogi governorship election. INEC announced that APC polled 247,752 votes to defeat PDP who came second with 204,877 votes. The PDP candidate, Wada lost in his LGA in the supplementary poll.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has said he enlisted former President Olusegun Obasanjo to mediate in the political crisis in Guinea Bissau because of his wide political and military experience and strong commitment to the unity of Nigeria and Africa. He made the disclosure during an audience with the President of Guinea Bissau, Mr. Jose Mario Bavz, […]
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AS Bayelsan decides who becomes the next Governor, the readiness and eagerness can be seen in the electorates. At Okpoama, home of Chief Timipre Silva, APC Governorship candidate. Electorates were seen bustling with excitement to cast their votes as early as as 7am. At Ewuoama, same feeling pervades the community with youths chanting change around […]
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Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson yesterday said the All Progressives Congress, (APC) governorship candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva had no reason to have under developed the state having received a total allocation of N847bn from the federation account in five years, (2007-2012), as against N599bn received by his administration in four years. Stating this during a […]
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The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) yesterday said it will defend parties in court over the political logjam created in the nation’s jurisprudence by the death of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate (APC), Prince Abubakar Audu, in the Kogi State election. The body also said it would leave no stone unturned until the Supreme […]
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The Supreme Court panel presided over by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mahmud Mohammed, on wednesday fixed February 5, 2016 for decision to be taken on the case of alleged false asset declaration involving the Senate President Bukola Saraki at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT). Saraki is challenging the ruling of the […]
Read More President Muhammadu Buhari on wednesday, met with Senate President Bukola Saraki in a closed-door meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting between the two leaders, which was described by the president’s aides as private, lasted for less than an hour. State House Correspondents were also barred from covering the meeting. This is the fourth […]
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An activist , Segun Lema Thursday urged the Economic and Financial crimes Commission (EFCC) and Department of State Security (DSS) not to spare anybody suspected to be connected with the ongoing arm deal probe. He particularly demanded that the former President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan must not be treated as a sacred cow in the struggle […]
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Read More President Muhammadu Buhari will today leave Nigeria for Johannesburg, South Africa to attend the Forum on China/Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). He will at the forum, which begins tomorrow, follow up with his last meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly Summit in November in New York, United States […]
Read More A bill seeking a two-year jail term for any person who makes false allegation or publishes any statement or petition in the newspaper, radio or medium of whatever description against another person,institutions of government or any public office holder, passed second reading in the Senate on Wednesday. The bill also prescribed that anybody or group […]
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