Why Nigerian elite don’t want Buhari as president – APC chieftain

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Osita Okechukwu, has said the Nigerian elite are opposed to the emergence of Muhammadu Buhari as president because they are aware he would wage unreserved war against corruption. He said as president, Mr. Buhari,

Nigerian senate says soldiers sentenced to death for mutiny deserve to die

The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday said it would not plead with the Nigerian Army to spare the lives of 12 soldiers recently sentenced to death for mutiny.

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Defence, George Sekibo, said this in Abuja after a closed-door meeting with the nation’s service chiefs.

Niger state govt. alleges arrested NTA reporter demanded bribe

The government of Niger state on Monday provided what it says were text message exchanges between it and Fejiro Oliver, the journalist declared missing since Friday and eventually paraded by the State Security Service, SSS in Minna on Monday

EFCC To Arraign Seven Suspects For Illegal Fishing Sept. 24

The suspects: Adekunle Oshingbosi; Momodu Ibrahim; Idowu Tuesday; Togbosi Christian; Benjamin Eyinle; Anthony Medoho and Oshine Resources Ventures, were arrested by officers of the Nigerian Navy for fishing in Nigerian territorial waters without necessary approval.ven suspected fraudsters, handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, by the Nigerian Navy, will be arraigned on Wednesday, September 24, 2014, before Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos

Some abducted Chibok girls released – Defence Headquarters

A yet unclear number of the Chibok girls kidnapped by the extremist Boko Haram sect in April have been

Why Amaechi can’t be impeached — Aide

 

Rotimi Amaechi

Rivers APC urged Nigerian to resist plot to derail nation’s democracy.


Rivers State Governor Chibuike Amaechi’s Chief of Staff, Tony Okocha, has guaranteed that the governor would complete his tenure despite alleged plot by six members of the State House of Assembly to unseat him.

Chibok schoolgirls: Jonathan embarrasses Nigeria – APC

“If your handlers had been sincere, Mr. President, they would have told you that the best venue of the meeting is Chibok, not Abuja.”
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has described as a compound embarrassment the fact that it took 17-year-old girl-child education campaigner, Pakistani Malala Yousafzai, to visit and convince President Goodluck Jonathan to agree to a meeting with representatives of the parents of the kidnapped school girls.