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The Abuja Federal High Court has stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from continuing collations of results in Bauchi State. INEC had announced in a Saturday press release that it will resume results collation of the Bauchi gubernatorial and State House of Assembly elections on Tuesday, after it resolved issues affecting two local governments - Tafawa Balewa and Ningi.…
Four children from one family, have been reported dead in Bayelsa State after inhaling generator fumes. The incident was reported to have happened on Saturday in Aghoro II community in Ekeremor Local Government Area of the oil-rich Niger Delta State. The children whose ages were not disclosed at the time of this report were said to be on recess from…
Barely 72 hours after announcing his retirement from partisan politics, Gbenga Daniel, says he is considering joining the ruling party, All Progressives Congress, APC. Daniel who worked as the Director General of the People's Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar's campaign, said this on Sunday after a meeting with his supporters and loyalists. He said consideration to join the ruling…
The Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, announced over the weekend that it will resume collation of results in Rivers and Bauchi states after elections were declared inconclusive. This decision has been faulted in the two states by the African Action Congress, AAC in Rivers State; and the APC in Bauchi State. RIVERS Rivers AAC is reportedly backed by the APC which…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced it will resume collation of votes in the Bauchi Governorship poll, next Tuesday. The electoral body said a winner could eventually be confirmed after it resolved matters affecting two local governments: Ningi and Tafawa Balewa This decision was revealed in a press statement on Friday night after resolving some issues around the…
All eight persons trapped in the three-storey building collapse in Ibadan, on Friday have been rescued. The Nigeria Emergency Management Authority, NEMA, confirmed this on through South West Coordinator, Slakku Luggard and Director of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Akin Makinde. No fewer than six persons were rescued on Friday, hours after the accident, following emergency intervention by the…
Three suspects in the Offa Robbery attack of April 5, 2018, have accused members of the police of complicity. Ayoade Akinnibosun, Ibikunle Ogunleye and Adeola Abraham told a High Court of Kwara, in Ilorin that their statements of admittance for the crime and implicating president of Nigeria's senate, Bukola Saraki were obtained under duress; thus, forced to make the confessions.…
Patience Jonathan loses over 5bn to the Nigerian government in two separate cases of illegal financial activities.
A building collapsed in Ita Faji area of Lagos Island, Southwest Nigeria, on Wednesday, claiming several lives and leaving scores injured.
The President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara met with the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari over the recent massacre in Plateau state on Wednesday. The meeting which was at the instance of the President of the Senate is currently holding at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The news of the ongoing…
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said on Wednesday that the National Assembly mutilated and rewrote the budget proposals for 2018 presented by the Executive last November. In a brazen usurpation of executive powers, the National Assembly slashed 347 billion Naira in the allocations to 4,700 projects submitted to it for consideration and introduced 6,403 projects of its own amounting to 578…
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has allayed the anxiety of Nigerians about his health, assuring them that there is no cause for worry.
Nigerian Government says the alleged Islamisation of Nigeria under the current administration is totally false and should be perceived in its entirety as a campaign of calumny.
The Nigerian Senate has confirmed that it had received the letter from President Muhammadu Buhari extending his medical vacation in the UK.
Nigerian student Bala Chinda to spend life in prison for killing British high-class prostitute Jessica McGraa in Aberdeen, Scotland last year.