Defiant Nigerian Petroleum Minister, Diezani Allison-Madueke has defended her decision to transfer the ownership of four oil blocs owned by the federal government through the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company Limited to a company owned by her and run by Mr. Jide Omokore,  Atlantic Energy Drilling Concept. The oil blocs are valued at over USD$15.72 trillion. The minister's defence of the flagrant lootin ...

The series of crises rocking the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP seem unabated as a group of sacked National Officers of the party led by former Osun state governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola appears set to fight dirty with the ailing National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur who they accused of getting desperate in his bid to hold on to the leadership of the party. This is made clear in th ...

With a comprehensive amnesty programme already slated for the Boko Haram islamist sect to appease the North, President Jonathan's tact team appears to have resolved to shift attention to south west Nigeria in a calculated design to win support for his ambition to re-contest the 2015 presidential election. Impeccable sources in the presidential villa told iReports-ng.com that a number of influential personal ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC today rejected the application for registration by the African Peoples Congress, a proxy group being sponsored by the ruling PDP to deny merging opposition mega party, All Progressives Congress. The rejection of their application for registration as a political party was conveyed to the group in a letter letter by INEC secretary, Abdullahi Kaugama today. T ...

There is panic in the Nigerian presidential villa, Abuja over a secret document prepared by a group of senior Army officers detailing the crisis rocking the Nigeria Army over recruitments and promotion exercises being carried out by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt General Azubuike Ihejirika among other issues. The officers operating under the name "Group for the Salvation of the Nigerian Army and the Motherland ...

The crisis rocking the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) got worse again today with the move by the sacked National Secretary of the party, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola to get a Federal High court in Abuja to grant him seven orders that will ultimately cripple the embattled party. Oyinlola, a former governor of Osun state is the first major casualty in the power struggle between former President Olusegun ...

After series of denials that he was being investigated by the EFCC for allegedly defrauding Benue and Imo state governments, senior special assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on public affairs, Doyin Okupe has finally opened up and in fact opted for a settlement with the Benue state government. iReports-ng.com had exclusively reported the story that Mr Okupe is enmeshed in a multi-million naira contra ...

A London court has today found former Chief Executive Officer of defunct Intercontinental Bank PLC, now Access Bank, Erastus Akingbola guilty of stealing and diverting billions of depositors funds to buy properties in the United Kingdom and buying shares for himself in order to manipulate its shares price in the stock market. In a landmark judgement delivered by Mr Justice Burton of the Royal Courts of Just ...

A female Permanent Secretary, PS, in the cabinet of Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos state, Mrs Adedoyin Anne Olusoga is now enmeshed in a big land scam, ireports-ng.com can authoritatively reveal. Our investigations have revealed that the top government official who has been caught hands down misfired due to her desperation to gather enough resources for the wedding of her son coming up next month. Mrs ...

The leadership of the Action Congress of Nigeria, which included four serving Governors, three former governors, serving Senators, Members of the House of Representatives and ex-ministers threw their weight behind the re-election of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole on the strength of his performance in his less than four years in office as Governor. The ACN leaders who attended the rally at the Samuel Ogbemudia Sta ...