AHEAD of 2015 Presidential election, chairman, Northern States Governors’ Forum, NSGF and governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu said yesterday that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar remains the best president Nigeria as a country was yet to have.Speaking yesterday at the launch of the book, titled, “Landmark Constitutional Law Cases in Nigeria 2004-2007: The Atiku…
The New Peoples Democratic Party said on Wednesday that it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the All Progressives Congress. When and where the MOU was signed as well as its content were not made public by the National Publicity Secretary of the New PDP, Chukwemeka Eze, in a text message he sent to…
Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi has said that he joined the All Progressive Congress in order to protect the people of his state. Amaechi said Rivers had suffered neglect under the President Goodluck Jonathan administration. He also said that he made up his mind to leave the Peoples Democratic Party for the APC because the…
Police enforcing Islamic law in the city of Kano publicly destroyed some 240,000 bottles of beer on Wednesday, the latest move in a wider crackdown on behaviour deemed “immoral” in the area. The banned booze had been confiscated from trucks coming into the city in recent weeks, said officials from the Hisbah, the patrol tasked…
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has demanded the immediate release of Mr Asari Dokubo
THE defunct Abubakar Kawu Baraje led splinter group of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP which prior to Tuesday had in its fold, the G7 governors, asked President Goodluck Jonathan to start writing his handover notes ahead of the 2015 Presidential election. According to the group in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Eze…
Nigerians travelling to the United States of America, USA, will be affected by the country’s recent tagging of the Islamist sect, Boko Haram, as a terrorist group. On November 13, the U.S. designated the sect and Ansaru militant groups as foreign terrorist organisations with the State Department describing the move as “an important” step to…
The lingering crisis of confidence between the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, leadership and seven of its estranged governors reached a climax, yesterday, with the aggrieved governors formally defecting to the All Progressives Congress, APC. But it was not all rosy for the G-7 governors as two of the governors — Babangida Aliyu of NigerState and…
Apparently miffed by the suggestion by Professor Ben Nwabueze, that he should be allowed to produce the working paper for proposed National Conference, the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, once again reacted to the idea, accusing President Goodluck Jonathan of of acting Nwabueze’s script on the matter. ACF made similar accusation against Nwabueze last week saying…
No fewer than 40 persons were yesterday killed by gunmen in four villages of Plateau State. But the Special Task Force, STF, in charge of security in the state confirmed that 37 persons died and five others were seriously injured during the multiple attacks in Barkin Ladi and Mangu Local Government Areas. The injured are…