Politics

The controversy surrounding the planned recruitment of ten thousand additional Police personnel, may soon be a thing of the past, as President Muhammadu Buhari has waded into the dispute between the Police Service Commission and the Nigeria Police Force. Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Musiliu Smith, stated this today after a meeting with President […]

After fifty-four days of political uncertainty, relief has come the way of the embattled Chairman of Abak Local Government Council, Imoh Williams, as the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly has lifted his suspension with immediate effect. The House took the decision today at its resumed plenary after more than one month recess, following the […]

After spending more than one month in DSS detention, Convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Omoleye Sowore has again filed a fresh application requesting for bail at a Federal High Court in Abuja. Reports say the new application was filed on Friday after his failed bid to have the court hear his earlier one challenging the detention […]

Defeated Kogi state governorship aspirant, Dino Melaye, has turned down his appointment as the Director-General of the State’s Governorship Campaign Council. Melaye, whose election as Senator for Kogi West, was recently annulled by the Election Petitions Tribunal, made his stand public through his verified Twitter handle. The embattled Senator, in declining the offer, said he […]

It has emerged that three years jail-term awaits anybody arrested for smuggling a bag of rice into Nigeria. Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Retired Colonel Hamid Ali, who announced this, regretted that the act of smuggling of contrabands food items like rice into the country is sabotaging the county’s economy. Ali warned that […]

The anticipated judgment of the Presidential Election Tribunal on the petition brought by the PDP and its candidate in the 2019 presidential elections, Atiku Abubakar, challenging the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari as winner of the polls, is underway. At the proceedings, the first application to be ruled upon by the tribunal was the one […]

Members of Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly led by the Speaker, Aniekan Bassey, are among Nigeria’s delegation at the ongoing 50th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, Africa Regional Conference, billed to end tomorrow, in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The conference, according to the Speaker, has offered members of the state legislature ample opportunity in parliamentary and diplomatic relations, as […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has dispatched a Special Envoy to convey to his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, his concerns about the escalating xenophobia attacks and also to find lasting solutions to the situation. This comes after the President has instructed the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, to summon the South African High Commissioner to […]