The Senate has denied knowledge of the $40m Internet surveillance contract the Federal Government reportedly awarded to an Israeli company, Elbit Systems. Speaking in Abuja on the controversial deal, the Leader of the Senate, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, said that he did not know if a provision for the project was ... Read More »
Actors in the latest bloodbath in Wukari, Taraba State, will not go unpunished, according to the acting governor of Taraba State, Alhaji Garba Umar. Umar, who said this in a state broadcast, noted that the spate of killings and destruction in Friday’s mayhem was more than that of last February. ... Read More »
If you have followed reactions to former FCT Minister, Mallam Nasir’ el-Rufai’s memoirs – The Accidental Public Servant, then, this lengthy one by former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo, should interest you. Read below: Although there is no single definition of fraud, the online definitions that ... Read More »
For the first time since controversy trailed his acquisition of a private jet, national president of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, has publicly dismissed allegations that the gift may have come from the Presidency. It would be recalled that the Congress for Progressive Change spokesman, Rotimi ... Read More »
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cruised to victory in last Saturday’s council polls in Kogi State by clinching all the chairmanship positions in all the 21 Local Government Areas of the state. Opposition parties won 14 councillorship seats in Yagba East, Ibaji, Ijum, Kabba/Bunu Yagba West and Mopamoro Local ... Read More »
Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, has denied allegations of a massacre in Baga village, Borno State. Abati, who was speaking in an interview with SaharaTV on Saturday, accused Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the media of playing politics by distorting the facts ... Read More »
Last month’s council polls in Edo State has been described as an ‘embarrassment’ by Christian elders and leaders in the state just as they called on Governor Adams Oshiomhole to justify his electoral mandate by cancelling the April polls and dissolving the Edo State Independent Electoral Commission ( EDSIEC.) In ... Read More »
A group of gunmen Sunday stormed a village in Adamawa on the border with Cameroon killing 10 residents in attacks on a church and a market, police said. According to the State Police-Public Relations Officer – Mohammed Ibrahim, the gunmen opened fire on a market square in Njilang village in Adamawa ... Read More »
For the umpteenth time, Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, has appealed to the gunmen, who abducted Dr. Shettima Ali Monguno, not to allow him die in their hands. In a press statement by his Director of Press, Isa Gusau, on Sunday, Shettima pleaded for the release of the elder statesman, with ... Read More »
Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has reacted to comments attributed to militant leader – Alhaji Mujaheed Dokubo-Asari describing him as a traitor and sell-out of the Niger Delta people saying it is a democracy and anyone can say whatever they want. At the weekend, during a news conference in Abuja, Asari, ... Read More »
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