The just-concluded Bayelsa state governorship election falls far below internationally acceptable standard, so says a Coalition of INEC Accredited Observer Groups today. This was contained in a 10-point communique issued today by the coalition at a press conference in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa state capital. Leader of the coalition and Director-General, Centre for Credible Leadership and Citizens Awareness, Gabr ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has described pro-Biafra agitators as ignorant and naïve people, stressing that the hope of an independent republic of Biafra by the Igbo is a dead dream. Obasanjo spoke at ‎a roundtable discussion organized by Nextier Advisory, a public sector advisory firm, with the theme “Nigeria and the Biafra Agitation.” He urged leaders from the Southeast geopolitical zone to call th ...

All officers and men of the Nigeria Customs Service have been given 14 days to declare their assets in a daring move by the new Comptroller General of Customs, Hammid Ali. The directive which will sure cause panic and apprehension among the stupendously rich officers in the top echelon of the Service was personally signed by Ali and addressed in a memo to all Deputy Comptrollers General, Zonal Coordinators ...

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Engr. Babachir Lawal, has commended the achievements of Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State, saying he was surprised that such performer existed in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Lawal who was on a   one-day visit to Ebonyi State on Thursday, added that Umahi’s performance had become a challenge to all governors, including those of the All Progressives ...

National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr Olisa Metuh, has been remanded in prison till Tuesday January 19, which is the scheduled day for the hearing of his bail application on the charges of money laundering preferred against him today by the EFCC. A Federal High Court, presided by Justice Okon Abang gave the order in Abuja. Justice Abang gave the order after the PDP spokesperson pl ...

On the recommendation of the committee established to audit the procurement of arms and equipment in the Armed Forces and Defence sector from 2007 to 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to carry out further investigation into the misconduct established against the following retired and serving officers of the Nigerian Air Force and Nigerian Army: ...

The Nigerian military authorities today warned members of the public about the latest antics of the terror sect, Boko Haram, stating that members of the group have now resorted to disguising themselves as fruit sellers in crowded areas in order to carry out attacks on unsuspecting members of the public. The Director, Defence Information, Brig. Gen. Rabe Abubakar, said in a statement on Thursday that the ter ...

President Muhammadu Buhari told told the BringBackOurGirls campaigners and parents of the over 200 girls abducted from their school in Chibok in April 2014 that he expected them to appreciate efforts his government had been making to rescue the girls. Addressing the campaigners and the parents of the girls behind closed doors inside the old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Buhari also ordered a fresh ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has filed a seven count charge against the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Olisah Metuh in a federal high court, Abuja. Interestingly, the name of a former Chairman of the Board of Trustee of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Tony Anenih, again surfaced in the charges bordering on the diversion of $2.1billion funds meant for procurement of arms. ...

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 ...