“Some of the trucks have spent a week on queue; we started loading on March 3 and God willing, the gridlock will reduce by late Thursday. “The gridlock is caused by the scarcity of petrol and the scrambling of our members to position their trucks nearer the source of supply. “If the supply continues from the depot the gridlock will eventually reduce. We appeal to people using the road to tolerate us for now,’’

The All Progressives Congress (APC) said the PDP’s public avowal to oppose the use of Card Readers in this month’s rescheduled election has shown the accuracy of the APC’s accusations that the ruling party is doing all in its powers to either prevent the election from holding or to rig it. In a statement issued in Lagos,Thursday, by its […]

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Party (APC) in Niger South on Thursday signed a peace pact at the Police Area Command headquarters in Bida, Niger. The event was attended by the PDP and the APC House of Assembly candidates from the zone. The members representing Lavun and Gbako Local Government Areas in the house, Mr Jacob Majin-Gana and Mohammed Alkali, were present.

The House of Representatives Committee on Sports, on Wednesday expressed confidence in the ability of the senior women national team, Super Falcons in action Falcons to excel at the 2015 World Cup in Canada.

“Our position on the card reader remains that the machine has not been tested in any election. “There are bases for genuine concern over the use of the machine, for the first time, in a crucial election of this magnitude. “We are aware that the All Progressives Congress (APC), is working in cahoots with some strategically placed elements to use the card readers to frustrate accreditation in some parts of the country’’, he said.

Ebola-ravaged Liberia has for the first time since last May gone a full week without reporting any new confirmed cases of the devastating virus, according to World Health Organization data. Liberia “reported no new confirmed cases” during the week to March 1, the UN health agency said in a report late Wednesday.

Some commuters in the Federal Capital Territory have called on the Federal Government to totally remove the subsidy on petroleum products, to ensure availability of fuel in the country.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has raised alarm over a plot by the Presidency to produce a very damaging documentary on the State Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibiuke Rotimi Amaechi, in continuation of the on-going campaign of calumny against leading lights in APC by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation, APCPCO, said yesterday that the wife of the President, Dame Patience Jonathan was “an incredibly crude woman” but thanked Nigerians for putting up with her attitude.

A Wuse Zone 6 Senior Magistrates’ Court, Abuja on Wednesday fixed April 2 for hearing in the criminal case brought against Nigerian boxer, Bash Ali, and four other accused persons.

A-72-year-old landlady, Bamidele Ogboro, who allegedly stole her tenant’s N500,000 and unlawfully ejected him out of her house was arraigned on Wednesday in Lagos.

The House of Representatives Committee on Sports on Wednesday said the National Sports Commission (NSC) may not get budgetary allocation this year for failing to appear before the committee to defend its budget.

The Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has said it would resist election in the south, if the Independent National Electoral Commission ,INEC, chairman, Prof Attahiru Jega, refuses to go

The ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, engaged in a brawl, yesterday, over alleged plot by government to surreptitiously deposit a huge amount of money into the bank account of the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega in the name of APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

ABEOKUTA—A housewife, Christanah Faturoti, 28, has been arrested by Ogun State Police Command over alleged attempt to murder her two-year-old -step-daughter on February 17.