APC wants Ekweremadu dead, positioning Remi Tinubu as his successor – PDP

Sen. Ike Ekweremadu.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Wednesday, accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of being behind the assassination attempt on the deputy president of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu.

Buhari government witchhunting Dasuki – Fani-Kayode

Femi Fani KayodeFormer Spokesperson for the Goodluck Jonathan presidential campaign and Chieftain of the Peoples Democracy Party, Femi Fani-Kayode has described the call for the arrest of former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki by President Muhammadu Buhari as pure witch-hunting by the current government.

Explosion rocks Kano GSM market

An explosion has gone off at Kano GSM market around farm centre. Casualties unknown..

Over 15 monarchs protest poor electricity supply in Osun

Aregbesola, Osun state Governor

Fifteen traditional rulers from four local government areas of Osun State stormed the office of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company in Osogbo, on Wednesday to protest poor supply of electricity in their domains.

[PHOTOS]: PDP Senators ‘force’ Tinubu’s wife to leave Ekweremadu’s seat

By Sylvester Ugwuanyi 

Wife of the All Progressives Congress, APC, National Leader, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, on Wednesday created a scene on the floor of the Senate when she sat on a chair reserved for the Deputy Senate President, DSP, Chief Ike Ekweremadu. This followed the absence of Ekweremadu at the day’s plenary.

Dasuki releases breakdown of arms purchases, says “Nigerians will hear a lot”

The immediate past National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd) has given his side of the story on the arms procurement saga which has pitted him against the incumbent federal government led by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The Second And Concluding Part: Amosun, The Cancerous Menace; And Another Epic Exposé On The Educational Sector Of Ogun State. - Oladuni Oliyide

It is no longer news that Senator Ibikunle Amosun who holds sway as Ogun State Governor has inflicted more pain on an average citizenry of Ogun State than any other governor that has held forth in the state. This ugly orgy came to a crescendo last week as the government pulled down a chapel of The Redeemed Christian Church named; Christ The Rock.

SHOCKING: Female sergeant sells baby brought to police station

Akinpelu Police Division

Olaleye Aluko and Afeez Hanafi

A female sergeant, Obotie Adesuwa, is currently in the cell of the X-Squad Section of the Lagos State Police Command, after she allegedly sold a week-old baby boy who had been brought with his mother to a police station.

Don’t introduce tollgates, Fasehun tells Fashola

Dr. Frederick Fasehun

Toluwani Eniola

The Chairman of the Unity Party of Nigeria, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, has advised the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, to avoid controversial projects that would not be beneficial to poor Nigerians.

French police kill three suspects in Saint-Denis raid

Paris 

Three suspects linked to Friday’s deadly attacks in Paris died after French police raided two separate sites in Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of the French capital, sources told Al Jazeera.

Ensure construction of 4th Mainland Bridge, Assembly tells Fashola

Babatunde Fashola

Eniola Akinkuotu

The Lagos State House of Assembly has urged the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, to ensure that the Federal Government finally constructs the much awaited Fourth Mainland Bridge.

Nigeria: N5,000 unemployment benefit starts in 2016

President Muhammadu Buhari

Olalekan Adetayo and Ifeanyi Onuba

The Federal Government has started the process of fulfilling its promise to pay N5,000 monthly allowance to 25 million unemployed youths in the country with 2016 as the take-off date, The PUNCH investigation has revealed.

LASU acting VC shuns office over juju scare

Charles Abah

More than 12 days after his appointment as the acting Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University, Prof. Fidelis Njokanma has refused to occupy his office at the Ojo campus of the institution, our correspondent gathered on Tuesday.

Instead, Njokanma, who is a professor of Medicine, is operating from the institution’s College of Medicine at Ikeja.

We will fund unemployment allowance, school feeding with TSA - FG

President Muhammadu Buhari

Olalekan Adetayo

The Federal Government plans to fund the N5,000 monthly allowance for 25 million unemployed youths and the free school feeding programme from the Treasury Single Account, The PUNCH has learnt.

Treasury Single Account, a recipe for electoral disaster —Jega

Prof. Attahiru Jega

Funding Nigeria’s electoral process through the newly-introduced Treasury Single Account can only lead to disaster, a former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, has said.

I escaped assassination attempt –Ekweremadu

Ekweremadu

The Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, claimed that he escaped assassination attempt, from suspected armed men on Tuesday in Abuja.

Opinion: Still Early to Concede to Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari

Although President Muhammadu Buhari might have put together a solid team of ministers, it is still too early to concede it all to him, writes Adedayo Adejobi

Nigeria: Presidency, Senate, PDP in war of words over TSA

By Henry Umoru & Joseph Erunke

Metuh, Buhari and Lai

The Presidency and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, were, yesterday, locked in a war of words over the implementation of the Treasury Single Account, TSA, with the opposition alleging discrepancies in figures and facts about the TSA.

Women half nude protest Oshiomhole’s move to probe Chief Igbinedion

BY GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE

Women half nude protests against Oshiomhole’s move to probe Chief Igbinedion

PIQUED by the recent outburst by the Edo state governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole on the Esama of Benin kingdom and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain, Chief Gabriel Osawaru Igbinedion, women from across the state under the aegis of Concerned Edo Women Tuesday took to the streets of Benin to protest against the governor’s attack on the Igbinedion family.

Nigeria: Over 30 killed, 80 injured in new Yola blast

Boko Haram Attacks in Yola yesterday

More than 30 people were killed Tuesday when a bomb blast ripped through packed crowds in Yola, northeast Nigeria, just days after President Muhammadu Buhari visited declaring that Boko Haram were close to defeat.

Biafra: Count us out, S-South tells agitators - Warns pro-Biafra protesters to avoid South-South territories

By Emma Amaize, Emeka Mamah, Innocent Anaba, Anayo Okoli, Nwabueze Okonkwo, Francis Igata & Chimaobi Nwaiwu


S-EAST GOVERNORS—From left, Deputy Gov. of Anambra State, Dr. Nkem Okeke, Governors Okezie Ikpeazu, Abia State, Rochas Okorocha, Imo State, and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Enugu State at the South East Governors Forum in Enugu State, yesterday.

Nigeria: Political challenges, and the Canadian example

Nigeria/Canada flag

THE generally peaceful conduct of the March 28, 2015 Nigerian presidential election and the gracious acceptance of defeat by the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) strongly signaled that Nigeria may have turned a new page, politically. Other indicators of a new turn for Africa’s largest democratic country and economy are the following firsts in the country’s annals: the widespread innovative use of technology for the process—the use of card readers; the overthrow of the ruling PDP by the General Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) through the ballot box after 16 years of dominance; the election of four none indigenes of a state (Lagos State) as members of the Federal House of Representatives; and the above-average performance of the National Electoral Commission in ways that suggest considerable independence of the electoral umpire.

Corruption Allegation: Dasuki kicks as Buhari orders arrest, says, “I was never invited to defend myself over arms deal”

Former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki

The immediate past National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, has denied ever receiving any formal or informal invitation to appear before an Investigative Panel on the Procurement of hardware and munitions in the armed forces.

NIGERIAN CORRUPTION TRIAL: PRESIDENT BUHARI RECEIVES INTERIM REPORT OF INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE ON ARMS PROCUREMENT, ORDERS ARREST OF INDICTED PERSONS

President Buhari

On the authority of Mr President, a 13 man committee was set up by the Office of the National Security Adviser to audit the procurement of arms and equipment in the Armed Forces and Defence sector from 2007 to date.