Senior lawyer and activist, Femi Falana, on Wednesday berated lawmakers for threatening to veto President Goodluck Jonathan over his decision to withdraw assent to the constitutional amendment they sent to him. The president, last week, wrote to the National Assembly informing it of his decision to decline assent to the amendment bill, based on the…
Gunmen on Tuesday killed a local campaign coordinator of the Kaduna State Governor-elect, Malam Nasir El-Rufai. El-Rufai’s spokesperson, Samuel Aruwan, disclosed in a statement made available to newsmen in Kaduna. According to Aruwan, the gunmen trailed Markus Ishaya to his village, Atuku Kasa, Atuku Ward of Jema’a Local Government Area of the state and shot…
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday sacked the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba, less that nine months after his appointment on July 31, 2014. The President has named a Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, as the acting IGP. Abba, who was the AIG Zone 7 before his appointment as the IG, succeeded Mohammed…
AFTER the euphoria of their electoral victories, one of the major challenges that will confront the President-elect, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), and 20 or 21 new governors is the level of debt stock the out-going administrations will leave behind. According to the Debt Management Office, DMO, the Federal Government has a stock of $6.445 billion…
All 14 deaths recorded in Ode Irele, Ondo state, from a “strange” ailment are directly connected to an exhumed corpse in the community, Kayode Akinmade, the Ondo state commissioner for information and strategy, has said. Speaking with TheCable, Akinmade said the diseases was not the same as Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), although it had managed…
President Goodluck Jonathan has defended his decision to concede defeat to Muhammadu Buhari in the March 28 election, saying he was concerned about allowing his personal ambition scuttle a democratic system he helped nurtured, with the likely consequence of a “collective tragedy” Mr. Jonathan said Thursday that he needed to check his ambition, as the…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed Ayodele Fayose as the duly elected governor of Ekiti State in the June 21, 2014 election. In a unanimous decision by the seven-man panel led by Justice John Fabiyi, the apex court upheld the earlier decisions of the Court of Appeal and the Ekiti State Governorship Election Tribunal, which…
That the All Progressives Congress (APC) has taken over the leadership of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is stale news for now. The party, whose slogan ‘Change’ indeed reflected in the recently concluded election, defeated the Peoples Democratic Party that had been ruling the country since the inception of the present democracy in 1999. The…
Sequel to the rumour spreading around the country that the incoming President, Mahammadu Buhari may send corrupt politicians to jail, information is filtering into the media that some notable politicians that worked with President Jonathan have been penciled down for prosecution for corruption. One of these people is the current minister of Petroleum Resources and…
The presidential election has come and gone and the winner and loser have emerged. The loser is no other person than the incumbent president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. The president, though looking always relaxed and calculated, lost grip of his government, no thanks to the many associates of his who did not help him. Some of…
