Senator Dino Melaye (APC-Kogi West) has been arrested after checking in at the international wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja. The senator tweeted that he was picked up on Monday on his way to Morocco for an official engagement…
Year: 2018
16 KILLED IN KOGI, BORNO ATTACKS
An early morning attack by unknown gunmen yesterday resulted in the death of five persons and burning of 15 houses as well as unspecified number of vehicles and motorcycles at Kpanche village in Bassa council area of Kogi State. The…
MONICA OSAGIE: DENIES BEING INVITED BY OAU PANEL PROBING SEX-FOR-MARKS AUDIO
Miss Monica Osagie, the student at the centre of a sex-for-mark scandal rocking the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has denied shunning an invitation by the panel probing her audio tapes of her conversation with disgraced Professor Richard Akindele, who demanded…
KOGI PDP CALLS FOR BELLO’S IMPEACHMENT
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has lamented the absence of Kogi state governor Yahaya Bello from the state without officially transmitting a letter to the State House of Assembly. The party therefore called on the state House of Assembly to…
LAGOS APC ASPIRANTS OPPOSE GBAJABIAMILA
Some All Progressives Congress members in Lagos State who are aspiring to represent Surulere Federal Constituency I at the House of Representatives have expressed their opposition to the re-election bid of the Majority Leader of the House, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila,…
POLITICAL THUGS INVADE ABIA APC SECRETARIAT
Individuals suspected to be political thugs on Friday attacked the secretariat of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Abia State. Reports made available to Newsmen indicated that two suspects connected to the attack on the political party’s office have been…
FRESH TROUBLE BREWS IN THE RULING PARTY
Barely three weeks to the national convention of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, on May 14, it’s 24 governors and other national leaders remain polarized over their struggle to control the party’s structure ahead of the 2019 general elections. Following…
THAT BRAZEN ATTACK ON DEMOCRACY
You can describe Wednesday, April 18, 2018 anyhow you like, but it was indeed, a national day of opprobrium. Some would also say it was a national day of mourning. Or how does one describe a day the National Assembly,…
ARSENAL BOSS STEPS DOWN
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has confirmed that he will step down at the end of the season, ending a 22-year spell in charge of the Gunners. The 68-year-old has struggled in recent years to keep Arsenal in contention for major honours,…
FARE THEE WELL, WINNIE! – SOC OKENWA
Penultimate week the Rainbow nation in particular and the world in general were treated to the melancholic news about the demise of the former wife of the late Nelson Mandela, the iconic former South African President, Winnie Madikizela Mandela. She…