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Social media regulation not aimed at gagging journalists, Minister tells NUJ

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has assured that the plan by the Federal Government to regulate the social media...

YEMI ADEBOWALE: WHY NOT LEAVE BICHI AND DSS ALONE

Since the Omoyele Sowore Saga, I have read several commentaries and recently, attacks on the DSS. A more recent one was that of...

Yahaya Bello wins Kogi governorship election marred by suspicion, bloodshed

  After days of increasingly restive waiting, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has officially declared governor Yahaya Bello of the APC has...

Future of oil and gas bright, world’s 7bn people can’t do away with it, says NNPC

  By Kunle Akinsola   …global oil decline forecast not a threat     Notwithstanding the forecasted global oil decline, the Nigerian National...

APC’s David Lyon coasts to victory in Bayelsa gov. poll

    …polls 352, 552 votes to beat PDP’s Diri     Mr Dvid Lyon of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been...

Kogi 2019 poll: Again, INEC declares Dino Melaye’s Kogi West Senatorial election “inconclusive’’

  Again, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the Kogi West Senatorial election involving PDP’s Sen. Dino Melaye and Mr Smart...

LASG seizes, tranquilizes lion in Victoria Island home of an Indian national

  Following a tip-off, the Lagos State Government says a cub has been seized at the Victoria Island residence of an Indian.  ...

Kogi elections: We are alarmed by the fatalities, violence, say EU, U.S., UK others

    With the violence that trailed the Kogi elections, the European Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, and other countries under...

Kogi polls: INEC postpones results collation of two outstanding LGs till Monday

  With just two more local government areas to go, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday evening announced the postponement of...

Rights group tasks National Assembly on Ogoni clean-up process

Wants VAT on Renewable Energy Reduced to 2%   The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), has urged the National Assembly...

SERAP seeks ICC probe of APC, PDP officials over violence in Bayelsa/Kogi elections

  Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) “to investigate whether the persistent crimes of corruption, violence,...

Bayelsa Polls: Sporadic Gunshots as INEC Collates Results In Jonathan’s Home Town

Barely few hours to the declaration of the Bayelsa gubernatorial election results, fresh violent activities have been reported in Ogbia local government area,...

Kogi polls: “Missing” 30 INEC ad hoc officials found, safe and sound

The 30 missing Ad-hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), engaged in the 2019 Kogi Governorship election, have been found. Earlier,...

All I Want Is To Serve My People – Hon Princess Miriam Onuoha

A clarion call has gone  to the  good people of Okigwe North not to fidget anymore, as solace for unprecedented socio-economic development will...

Sack of VP’s aides: Pres. Buhari breaks silence

  …it’s reorganization of Presidency   The sack of 35 aides of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo is part of  the ongoing reorganisation at the...

Kogi/Bayelsa Gov. Polls: Voters out amid tense atmosphere

  Today, November 16 is the voters’ decision day  in two states — Bayelsa and Kogi — as they are expected to mass...