ILORIN-A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ,Alh Abubakar Kawu Baraje has said that the party will support the Nigerian masses in rejecting any attempt by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led-federal government to foist an interim government on the nation after the expiration of the tenure of President Goodluck Jonathan and that any attempt to postpone the February 14 election would be an invitation to anarchy.

By Levinus Nwabughiogu ABUJA–Barely two weeks to the general election, some former members of the 2014 National Conference yesterday added their voices to the calls for the postponement of the election, saying that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC),was not ready for the polls. The delegates, apparently allies of President Goodluck Jonathan, in their separate […]

Japanese police have arrested a man for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting more than 100 women who believed they were taking part in a medical study, detectives and local media said Tuesday.

A group of Nigerian youths not favourably disposed to going ahead with this month’s general elections,due to the inability of many registered voters to collect their Permanent Voter Cards,PVCs, protested to the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday,to demand postponment.

LAGOS—One of the members of a three-man robbery gang busted by the Police in Lagos State at Magbon, Oka-Afo, Ile-Epo area of the state, has said that they were caught because their charms failed.

Former Governor of Lagos State and leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu yesterday said President Goodluck Jonathan was an ‘ordinary captain’ who could not device better strategies that would aid easy navigation of the country’s ship.

By Chris Ochayi ABUJA: The Minister of Power, Professor Chinedu Nebo has expressed sadness over the plight Nigerians huge gap in distribution of meters to electricity consumers, saying that only about 50% of Nigerians have access to the products. Prof. Nebo who made the remarks while speaking on Good Morning Nigeria, a magazine programme of […]

Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of late singing legend Whitney Houston, was fighting for her life Monday after she was pulled unconscious from a bathtub over the weekend, her family said.

National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Adamu Muazu yesterday, relived the pains the party went through following the defection of five of its governors to the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, saying however, that the worst days were over.

Ado Ekiti—The Ekiti chapter of the pan-Yoruba socio-political association, the Afenifere has dissociated itself from the purported endorsement of President Goodluck Jonathan, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate as its candidate for the February 14 election.

In 2014, when the Federal government ordered the sacking of 16,000 resident doctors across the Federation, there was a huge outcry not only from the medical community, but from the entire health sector. The decision was not only considered drastic, but ill advised and potentially catastrophic because resident doctors a.k.a. trainee doctors, constitute the main support force and backbone for medical practice in the public sector.

ABUJA—A blast, yesterday, ripped through a car park outside Gombe Stadium where President Goodluck Jonathan had addressed a campaign rally barely three minutes after he left. A suspected female bomber and another woman died in the blast while six other persons sustained various degrees of injury, according to the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, DSP Fwaje Atajiri.

In spite of Lagos state Government’s effort to end street begging, more beggars still troop into the state daily. This compelled the government to intensify its raid, leading to the evacuation of 260 beggars from the streets in the last 100 days.

NIGERIAN Security Chiefs, yesterday, said the military was ready for the general elections expected to commence on February 14 with the Presidential and National Assembly elections.

Governor Serikae Dickson, famed as the countryman governor was steeped in leftist political inclination at the onset of the Fourth Republic and was chairman of the Bayelsa State chapter of the Alliance for Democracy, AD. He subsequently defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and was commissioner for Justice in the Goodluck Jonathan administration in Bayelsa State and subsequently a two term member of the House of Representatives and became a key member of Team Jonathan in the days of the wilderness when the incumbent president was vice-president. Reward came his way when he was picked by the team for the governorship election in 2012.