The Police in Rivers on Saturday confirmed an attack on the National School Field, Okrika, venue of the All Progressives Congress governorship rally in Okrika local Government Area of the state.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday said his sister, late Madam Nancy Oleic- Jonathan died of a heart related ailment.

Mike Ozekhome, SAN – “The electoral Act of 2010 with the 2011 amendment is vey clear. It is an act of the National law which is still very valid as an existing law. Section 45(1) of the Act deals with postponement of elections and it makes it clear that elections into the offices of the President and Vice President, Governors and Deputy Governors, and members of the National Assembly- which are already scheduled for February 14, can be postponed by INEC on a date which should not be earlier than 150 days to the expiration of the present term of the occupants of the offices, and not latter than 30 days before the expiration.

MIXED reactions yesterday trailed the call by the National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki that the forthcoming general elections should be postponed.

The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) on Friday said that Federal Government was still subsidising the current pump price of petrol at N87 per litre.

Dr Mohammed Chambas, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for West Africa, has pledged the organisation’s support for on-going counter-terrorism campaign in Nigeria.

Roma have agreed terms with Chelsea for the transfer of midfielder Mohamed Salah to the Serie A club, according to reports in Italy on Saturday

The Kogi State Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has urged farmers, hunters, cattle breeders and other forest users to desist from bush burning .

Boko Haram gunmen killed 15 people including a village leader near Maiduguri, the heartland of the Islamist group blamed for thousands of deaths in its six-year insurgency, security sources and residents said Saturday.

Adediwura Adesegha is an ebony beauty who plies her trade mostly in the Yoruba sector of Nollywood. She’s a graduate of English from Lagos State University and has been acting since 2008. She started acting pretty early.

Buhari is arguably Nigeria’s most popular politician today . He wields the largest individual political grass root followership and vote gathering prowess . On mass appeal, he is in the proximity of the highly esteemed first republic premiers who attracted fanatical loyalty from their followers . Some of his ardent followers in the north east and north west zones love him as passionately as the people of the old western region loved Awolowo.

The Federal Government, Friday, flagged off the sale of kerosene at the pump price of N50 per litre under the Kero-Direct–Scheme, a programme designed by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to make the commodity available for every household in the country.

Since the sad news of his demise broke last Sunday, fans and colleagues of star actor, Muna Obiekwe, have continued to grieve over his loss, especially when they remember the actor’s daring roles in movies – those that will survive for a very long time. Muna, who has a knack for acting romantic scenes in movies was the quintessential character actor, and as such, a representative of a proudly, if sadly disappearing breed.

President-Jonathan-campaignAt the palace of the sultan of Sokoto where the president made the first point of call, the president used the opportunity to assure the people of the state and the north in general that the assumption that he hates the north was

Despite Nigeria’s efforts, the schemes have reached “epidemic proportions. A publication by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said the agency received more than fifty-five thousand complaints about them last year, nearly six times as many as in 2001. The increase is due in part to the Internet, which makes it easy for scammers to reach potential marks in wealthier countries. “If we educate the public to the point where nobody falls for it, then they’ll go out of business,” Eric Zahren, a spokesman for the Secret Service, the lead U.S. agency in investigating advance-fee frauds, says.