The United States Vice President, Joe Bidden on Monday commended President Goodluck Jonathan for his leadership role in the recent peaceful elections in Nigeria. Biden also urged President Jonathan to remain engaged and play a leadership role in global issues. In a statement by the U.S Embassy
Egypt’s ex-president Mohammed Morsi faces being sentenced to death on Tuesday on charges of inciting the killing of protestors in the first verdict against him nearly two years after his fall from power. He also faces the death penalty in two other trials, including one in which he is accused of spying for foreign powers, and […]
The President of Niger Republic, Alhaji Muhammadou Isoufou, has extolled the cordial relations between Nigeria and his country. He spoke through the Majority Leader of the Nigerien National Assembly, Alhaji Zakari Umar, who led a 15-man team to visit Gov. Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State on Sunday to congratulate him on the electoral victory of the […]
Ahead of the rerun elections in Abia State, youth under the aegis of Nigerian Youth Congress has raised alarm of plans by some top military brass to deploy military personnel for the conduct of the elections contrary to an Abuja High Court order restraining the Army from participating in the 2015 polls. The Independent National […]
Nigeria’s President-Elect. Muhammadu Buhari has been advised to avoid former president Olusegun Obasanjo if he intends to succeed in leading Nigeria. Former Chief Whip of Senate, Senator Rowland Owie, gave the advice to the president-elect in a press statement released in Benin on Wednesday. According to Owie, Obasanjo is one bad leader that fights a […]
President of the Nigerian Union in South Africa, Mr Ikechukwu Anyene, said on Friday that xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals were on the increase. Speking with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on phone from Pretoria, South Africa, Anyene said the mechanic workshop of a Nigerian was completely destroyed early on Friday in Johannesburg. ‘’In the […]
Zimbabwe has not stopped paying ex-vice president Joice Mujuru her salary, although some payments to her account may have been delayed, Information Minister Jonathan Moyo said on Thursday. “Nobody can take away her constitutional entitlements. No! Delayed disbursements, maybe,” Moyo tweeted in response to a story in the privately-owned Newsday. The paper said
President Goodluck Jonathan has rejected amendments made by the National Assembly to the 1999 constitution. According to a letter to the Senate President, David Mark and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, read on the floor of the Senate, President Jonathan said he was withholding his assent to the bill due to […]
President Elect 1A-C. President Elect General Muhammadu Buhari and wife, Hajiya Aisha Buhari accredited at 8:23 AM for the Governorship and House of Assembly election in Daura, Katsina State, on Saturday, APR 11 2015
President Goodluck Jonathan has assured Nigerians of maximum security and protection ahead of the Saturday’s governorship and State House of Assembly’s elections. President who wrote on his official facebook wall on Friday said, “As Nigeria returns to the polls tomorrow, I encourage all registered voters to come out en masse and exercise their right […]
The nation is awash with stories and permutations as to who emerges the President of the Senate of the Eight National Assembly. In line with the constitution, Nigerians should know who takes this cake sometimes in the first week of June when the National Assembly is proclaimed. But beyond knowing who becomes the next […]
The Islamic world is at risk of “disintegration” due to the current conflicts in the region between the Sunni and Shiite strands of the Muslim faith, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in comments published on Thursday. Erdogan, who is increasingly touting himself as a leader of the Muslim world, said he would take steps […]
The President of Nestoil Group and Founder of Obijackson Foundation, Dr. Sir Ernest Azudialu Obiejesi has vowed to bring to book, the perpetrators of the March 28 national assembly electoral violence in Ihiala local government. Sir Obijackson, it would be recalled, was attacked at a collation center in Ihiala. Dr. Obiejesi who stated this […]
The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) on Monday called on the President-elect, Gen. Mohammadu Buhari to make education his major focus in Nigeria’s quest to become a major global economy. The National Vice President (West), Mr Alfred Jimoh made the call in Lagos. Jimoh said that having been a one-time president of the […]
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has called on the President-elect, Gen. Mohammadu Buhari to use his new office to work towards greater unity of the country. Speaking through its National Chairman, Chief Victor Umeh, APGA while congratulating Buhari on his victory, said it was a turning point in the history of Nigeria to […]
The former governor of Anambra State and the South East Coordinator of the All progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Committee in the 2015 general election Sen Chris Ngige has said that the President elect Gen Mahammadu Buhari would handover to South East President after a transparent eight years of administration. Ngige who gave this hint yesterday […]
• President-elect renews pledge to tackle corruption AT exactly 2.35pm on Tuesday, the Presidentelect, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), was formally presented with his certificate of return by the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega. General Buhari was accompanied to the podium by the Vice-
Capital market operators under the aegis of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS), Association of Stockbroking Houses of Nigeria (ASHON) and Association of Issuing Houses of Nigeria (AIHN) have indicated readiness to work with the federal government in ensuring the establishment of viable community exchanges. Speaking Tuesday, at the ‘Press Conference of G 29 under
Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou has said that “the end of Boko Haram is near.” Issoufou spoke with VOA French to Africa news service Tuesday during a visit to Washington. He said Boko Haram “is not eradicated but was greatly weakened” by an offensive launched by multinational forces late in January. Since then, troops from Nigeria, Niger,
Members of the Rotary Club of University of Benin have installed a 300 level Social Works student, Olaloluwa Adene, as the 30th president of the Rotary Club, UNIBEN district at a gathering held at the Banquet hall of the institution which attracted dignitaries from the various Rotary districts in Edo State. Speaking at the event, […]
