Beyond the Headlines
The director of the Civil Society directorate of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Najatu Mohammed, has resigned her membership of the ruling party and consequently resigned as director of the council. Her resignation was communicated in a letter addressed to the national chairman of the party, Abdullahi Adamu. She indicated that recent developments in […]
Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council has the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has hailed the Federal High Court ruling which vacated the interim forfeiture order against a former Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu. It could be recalled that Justice Inyang Ekwo had while vacating the order, said the Court discovered […]
Gunmen on Friday night attacked Oguta police division in the Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State. Our correspondent gathered that the gunmen who struck in the dead of the night were repelled by cops on duty. The gun duel which lasted for hours left a police mobile office dead with some of the […]
A former Enugu State Governor, Chimaroke Nnamani, has assured his constituents and Nigerians alike that his political career is alive and unshaken. Reacting to his suspension by the Peoples Democratic Party’s National Working Committee over accusations of anti-party activities, in a statement he signed on Saturday, Nnamani noted that his suspension from the party […]
The violence which is threatening the political atmosphere in Ebonyi State, has continued to take a bloody dimension as gunmen have reportedly killed two members of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in the Ebonyi State. The attackers, riding on motorcycles stormed the venue of the APC Meeting inMkpuma Akataka community, Izzi Local Government […]
The Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has said that he and his running mate, Yusuf Datti, are corrupt-free and have never stolen government money, saying they remain the right people to be elected into office in next month’s presidential election. He stated this Friday at the Rwang Pam Stadium in Jos, the […]
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), says it is not opposed to the naira redesign policy by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Aminu Tambuwal, interim chairman of NGF and governor of Sokoto, in a communique issued on Thursday, said the forum received a briefing from Godwin Emefiele, governor of CBN, on the naira redesign […]
Ifeanyi Ejiofor, one of the lawyers for the embattled leader of the proscribed Igbo secessionist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has said Kanu should be released to Nigerians and not to the Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo. Soludo had called for Kanu’s immediate and unconditional release in Awka, the state […]
No fewer than 10 female students have been raped and robbed when armed robbers invaded six off-campus student hostels at Ifite, near the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State. According to sources, the hoodlums, numbering about 20 stormed the area at about 8:00 pm on Thursday, going from one hostel to another until 5:00 […]
A 15 years romance between a Nigerian-born Danish citizen, Kelvin Martins and Nigerian lady, Sandra Agho that produced a son has gone sour resulting in allegations and counter allegations between the two. At the centre of the controversy was how the product of the relationship, a four-year-old Johnnes Owen Martins found his way […]
