The Nigerian Premier League (NPL), has said that its Title Sponsorship suit at the Federal High Court, Lagos, did not affect its Broadcast Rights Agreement with Total Promotions Ltd (TPL)

Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs María Otero will visit Nigeria next week, the U.S State Department has said.

Ugandans cheering skywards as a yellow plane circles and blares out President
Yoweri Museveni’s popular rap single are sure an opposition call to protest against his election win is ridiculous

Some Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) say the April elections can sail through regardless of the threat posed by the large number of litigations against the polls, provided appropriate steps are taken by the authorities.

FORMER minister of information and communications, Prof Dora Akunyili who is the senatorial candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, for Anambra Central has described as an empty threat alleged decision of drug dealers in Onitsha to stop her senatorial ambition, saying they should be prepared to die when she is elected senator.

The Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria, NPAN, is full of praise for the House of Representatives for fulfilling its pledge to pass the long-delayed Freedom of Information (FoI) Bill. The House passed the bill on Wednesday.

A Deltan and human rights activist, Oghenejabor Ikimi, yesterday, asked a Federal High Court, Asaba, Delta State, to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from conducting any election for the governorship of Delta State until January 10, 2015, when the tenure of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan would expire.

The National Chairman of the All Nigerian Peoples Party, ANPP, Ogbonaya Onu yesterday inaugurated the party presidential campaign committee with a charge to put party interest first and ensure that their campaign reach all the nook and cranny of the country.

ARMED robbers yesterday raided Bank PHB at Umunede in Delta State while the Delta Commissioner of Police and other security chiefs were in Asaba waiting for the arrival of President Goodluck Jonathan for a PDP presidential rally.

Former Deputy National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olabode George regains freedom today after serving out two years imprisonment alongside four others for contract-splitting when he was Chairman of Nigeria Ports Authority, NPA. Chief Bode George is expected to be released by 10am today to the waiting arms of top party chieftains and family members at the Kirikiri Maximum Security Prisons.

The Supreme Court, yesterday, struck out an appeal filed by the governorship candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, in the 2007 general elections in Niger state, Mr. David Umaru, in which he asked the court to declare Governor Babangida Aliyu’s tenure illegal.