The National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal for Yobe State sitting in Abuja, has upheld the election of Ibrahim-Umar Potiskum, as the member representing Potiskum/Nangere federal constituency. Justice U.S Sakwa, a member of the three-man tribunal, delivered the judgment on Saturday. Sakwa dismissed the petition filed …
Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos Police Command, has identified the man who climbed an aircraft at the airport on Friday as Usman Adamu from the neighbouring Republic of Niger. The spokesperson for the Command, DSP Joseph Alabi, disclosed the identity of the 32-year-old Nigerien to …
Popular Nigerian singer, Timi Dakolo, has raised the alarm over threat to his life. Dakolo, in a post on his Instagram page on Saturday, said strange men are presently in front of his house with guns. Dakolo wrote: “Strange men at my house with guns.” …
Former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, has attacked his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. He described the main opposition party as “a party dominated by ungrateful and sadistic elements.” Orubebe, an ally of former President Goodluck Jonathan, also said that the …
The Dunamis International Gospel Centre is set to hold first of its kind Music Ministers’ Conference with the theme, The Minstrel. The conference is aimed at imparting on music ministers fresh anointing to further propagate the gospel of the kingdom through music ministration. Speaking on …
With the call to stop further movements of cattle into their region by foot except through trucks to specific cow markets to avoid herders and farmers clash, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, on Saturday threatened the governors in the South-East, noting that ‘if anything happens to …
A former Nigerian and Biafran soldier, Colonel Emmanuel Nwobosi, has warned that history may repeat itself as Nigeria has failed to learn from the events of 1967. Nwobosi, who was one of the officers that truncated the nation’s first republic in the January 15, 1966 …
Nigeria Senate Chief Whip, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, on Thursday revealed how the late South African leader, Nelson Mandela, put pressure on former Nigeria President, Olusegun Obasanjo, to drop his third-term presidential agenda. According to Kalu, Mandela played a crucial role in ensuring Obasanjo abandoned …
Ex-Niger Delta militant leader, Asari Dokubo, has called on South-South and South-Easterners to return home following threats from Coalition of Northern Groups. Asari spoke on the heels of the Coalition of Northern Groups and the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, asking herdsmen to leave the South. …
The star witness invited by Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Osita Chidoka, on Friday admitted that he has never seen the purported server, which the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) allegedly used to transmit results. When asked if he witnessed the transmission …
