Foremost Ijaw leader and PDP stalwart, Chief Edwin Clark has quit the Peoples Democratic Party.
However, Clark who was a highly vocal supporter of former President Goodluck Jonathan ruled out joining the ruling APC.
The former Federal Commissioner for Information announced his decision on Wednesday when the Think Nigeria First Initiative paid him a courtesy visit at his Abuja home....
Wednesday, 7 October 2015
The Acting Director of Army Public Relations, Col Sani Usman said on Wednesday that troops of the Army 120 Task Force Battalion in Yobe killed over 100 fleeing insurgents at Goniri area of the state.
A statement issued by Col Usman in Abuja on Wednesday said that seven soldiers were killed while nine others sustained injuries when the terrorists tried to invade the Goniri military base in the early hours of Wednesday.
His words;
“The fleeing Boko Haram terrorists in a desperation to create an impression that they remain relevant, early today...
Multiple bomb blasts hit the Ministry of Housing quarters and Buhari Housing Estate in Damaturu, Yobe State on Wednesday morning killing 16 persons and injuring 10 others.
Executive Secretary, Yobe State Emergency Management Agency, Alhaji Musa Idi, confirmed the story to newsmen in Damaturu on Wednesday.
News Agency of Nigeria reports that normalcy has returned to the city as schools and businesses have resumed their normal activities....
Tuesday, 6 October 2015
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed all Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs of government including the military and universities to join the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo who made the disclosure on Tuesday said that IPPIS would help in curtailing some of the abuses in the salaries and emoluments processes of the government.
Osinbajo spoke during a meeting with Permanent Secretaries and Directors-General during a one-day sensitization session on the 2016 budget and 2016-2020...
Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomole says he has been vindicated on his strident criticism of corruption in the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Comrade Oshiomole spoke with State House correspondents on the arrest in London of Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari.
His words ;
“For me, I don’t think anybody should be surprised because the most favorable commentators on the Nigerian condition, both the economy, the polity and society, everybody agree that our economy was badly mismanaged...
But for the alert security operatives attached to Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court, Abuja, the alleged mastermind of the 2010 Independence Day Abuja bombing, Mr Charles Okah would have committed suicide in the court on Tuesday.
Okah who has been standing trial on charges of terrorism for five years had sought the permission of the judge to address the court on his prolonged trial since his counsel was not in court.
He was granted his desire, and here is what he said ;
“I have been incarcerated for about five years now and I...
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