THE latest massacres, including the train killings and abductions in Kaduna and other parts of the North that have for some years now, come under incessant attacks from so-called bandits and terrorists, have highlighted once again how dangerously close Nigeria has come to buckling under the weight exerted on it by violent forces opposed to her existence.

Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, Senator George Akume has assured the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC of the readiness of the Benue state chapter to address what he described as the “little irritations” in the state.

Some aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area (LGA) of Lagos State on Friday stormed the party secretariat to protest against the planned substitution of the executive committee list produced at the last LGA Congress. The aggrieved members, who earlier took their protest to Ifako-Ijaiye area where party […]

By Davies Iheamnachor, Port Harcourt A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has struck out a consolidated suit by Ogechi Ogwu-Edwin and four others and Alaibo Soibibo and four others against the All Progressives Congress, APC, and former state Caretaker Committee Chairman of the party, Isaac Ogbobula. The separate suits, which were later […]

By Haruna Aliyu, Birnin Kebbi A member representing Birnin Kebbi, Kalgo and Bunza federal constituency, Honourable Bello Yakub Rilisco, has on Thursday defected from the ruling All progressives Congress (APC) to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kebbi state. Confirming his defection, his senior legislative aide on politics, Hussaini Shehu, said that he left […]