The Federal Government has disengaged the heads of the six information-related parastatals under the Ministry of Information and Culture. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced the disengagement during a meeting he held with the Chief Executives of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), Voice of Nigeria (VON), News Agency of Nig ...

Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC has said that half of the members of Governor Nyesome Wike’s cabinet have indicated interest in defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the APC. The party disclosed this in a statement in which it welcomed the latest set of PDP chieftains and about 500 decampees from the camps of PDP acting National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, and f ...

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has reacted to the report submitted by the Army panel set up to look into allegations of unprofessional conduct against soldiers during the Ekiti, Osun, Rivers and Akwa Ibom State governorship elections, saying; “For all intent and purposes, the report can only be useful to the army and one is not surprised because the panel must do the biddings of those who set it up ...

Human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana SAN has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to obey the various court rulings ordering the release of former NSA Sambo Dasuki and pro-Biafra agitator Nnamdi Kanu. He warned that for 16 years, the former ruling party, PDP disregarded rule of law, an act they paid dearly for at the 2015 polls. He cautioned that the new government of change by APC should not make the mistake of ...

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described the Saturday’s arrest and detention of the Kogi State Deputy Governor-Elect, Hon James Abiodun Faleke and Mr Mohammed Audu, son of the late former Governor of Kogi State and All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Abubakar Audu, as a confirmation of his prediction that penchant for dictatorship will rise this year with rampant disobedienc ...

The Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has expressed grave concern over what it calls more startling discoveries of monumental looting and misappropriation of public funds by officials of the Amaechi administration in the State. The PDP says the latest discovery of over N82m wasted on a three-hour dinner organized for Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, by former Governor Rotimi Amae ...

The Peoples Democratic Party has raised the alarm over alleged plot to poison its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, who was arrested earlier today by the EFCC, warning that his arrest was capable of ruining the country’s democracy. The party said in a statement by its National Secretary, Prof. Adewale Oladipo, that Metuh’s arrest by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Tuesda ...

In the light of the ongoing war against corruption, a coalition of rights activists under the banner of Civil Society Network Against Corruption (CSNAC), has called on all the 36 ministers in President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet, to publicly declare their assets. In a statement issued Sunday by the chairman of the coalition, Olanrewaju Suraju, the group noted that by publicly declaring their assets, the min ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has been described as an insensitive leader who has no value for life. This was the view of Shia muslims in the country under the banner of Members of Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN). The Islamic group said for President Buhari to have kept silent on the killings of their members in Zaria few weeks ago until his Wednesday’s presidential media chat, showed that he was not bothere ...

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described the Sunday and Monday’s Boko Haram attacks in Borno and Adamawa States as disheartening and an indictment on the All Progressives Congress (APC) federal government, saying that the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed must explain to Nigerians how the same Boko Haram that he said had been “technically defeated” could carry out such daring an ...