The attention of Afenifere has been drawn to the allegation by the Ojora of Ijora,Oba Fatai Oyeyinka Aromire that the house where nine suspected terrorists ,including a Chadian, were arrested in Ijora-Badia in Lagos belongs to Bayelsa State Government. The monarch made the allegation while receiving a delegation of Hausa community and we quote him: “Discovery of such factory in Ijora was very sad to me and ...

  The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has noted the N253Billion budget proposal by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Mr Bala Muhammed, and for which the President had given his Executive approval. As expected with this profligate regime, there are items in the 2013 budget that are not just absurd but utterly outrageous. Among the bizarre lines embedded in the Budget document are: ·         ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC this evening came down hard  on 28 political parties, sacking them from existence including those founded and led by some prominent national political leaders. Some of the parties scrapped by INEC include Dr Tunji Braithwaite's Nigeria Advanced Party, NAP; late Dr Olusola Saraki's Action Party of Nigeria, APN; Rev Chris Okotie's Fresh Democratic Party, FDP ...

Arrangements have been concluded for the flag –off and holding of the Peoples’ Public Sessions on the review of the 1999 Constitution across the 360 federal constituencies in the country. The Peoples’ Public Sessions is the initiative of the House of Representatives to achieve a more participatory, inclusive and transparent review of the Constitution. According to the Deputy Speaker and Chairman of the Hous ...

President Goodluck Jonathan has described as barbaric and cruel today's suicide bomb attack on St Rita's Catholic Church in Kaduna,vowing that the nation will never surrender its sovereignty to forces of terror and retardation. Mr Jonathan in a statement by his spokesman, Reuben Abati, said he was extremely saddened by the suicide bomb attack which he called "barbaric, cruel and uncalled for." The president ...

A civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on “the International Anticorruption Conference (IACC) holding its 15th session next week in Brazil to withdraw any invitation for the participation of Nigerian government officials if the government does not move swiftly to ensure full accountability and justice for the complicity of government officials and multinat ...

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) was on Tuesday the guest of members of the Metropolitan Club in Victoria Island at a special session on Law and Order in the State, charging those supporting the unregulated operation of motorcyclists to take a trip to the various hospitals and medical emergency centres to see the havoc wreaked by their activities. Governor Fashola who spoke at the Kofo Abayo ...

Former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mrs Farida Waziri has charged well meaning Nigerians and friends of the country to step out and give a helping hand to victims of flood ravaging parts of the country. Waziri made the call on Monday October 22, 2012 when she led some international organisations to donate relief materials such as drugs, foodstuffs, water, mattresses, cloth ...

The Action Congress of Nigeria has described the lamentations of President Goodluck Jonathan at the opening of the 52nd Annual General Meeting of the Nigerian Bar Association as the most criticised president in the world and asking why he was being held responsible for the state of insecurity, power failure, decaying infrastucture even though his administration inherited these problems as an admission of fa ...

The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN has condemned the gruesome murder of Mrs Erasmus Effanga and Mr Basil Effanga mother and brother respectively of its Spokesman in Akwa Ibom State Mr Francis Effanga whose lifeless and decomposing bodies were found in a room in their residence in Mbinkpa Atan village Akwa Ibom State on Sunday the 5th of August 2012. In a statement issued in Lagos  by its National Publicity ...