A teenager, Kehinde Pote, was on Monday charged before an Ota Magistrates’ Court, Ogun, for allegedly stealing a generating set valued at N15,000.

When the delegates to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primaries gather in Asaba next month to elect the party’s flag bearer in next year’s Delta State gubernatorial election, the interest of President Goodluck Jonathan, whose name will not be on the ballot, more than anyone else, not even that of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan and the aspirants, will determine who wins the party nomination.

AS the Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, handed out about 306 awards at the 2014 National Honours Award Ceremony in Abuja recently, critical newspaper editorials and other comments have trailed the process of selection of recipients who are mainly Nigerians. Yet this year’s national honours award was significant in many respects.

ABUJA—BARRING last minute changes, governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP will meet this week to strategise on the next line of action to confront the National Working Committee, NWC over the stoppage of consensus endorsements of their candidates ahead of the 2015 general elections.

By Ikenna Asomba As the the relationship between two of Africa’s largest economies, Nigeria and South Africa continues to be flexed over what observers described as Nigerian government’s alleged poor handling of the September 12 collapse of a six-storey guest house attached to the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, Ikotun-Egbe, Lagos, where 84 South […]