turnpot@gmail.com  0705 363 1058 King Solomon in Ecclesiastes 1: 9 – 11 says: The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there anything whereof it may …

By Emmanuel Mogbede/Rotimi Ijikanmi The National Working Committee (NWC)of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has dissolved the Kwara State Executive of the party. This is according to a resolution signed by the party’s National Chairman, Mr Adams Oshiomhole and its National Secretary, Mai Mala Buni on Monday in Abuja after …

By Hamza Suleiman  The Police Command in Borno said it had closed its Motor Traffic Division (MTD) over allegation of extortion and illegal detention of tricycle operators by its personnel. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Damian Chukwu, who disclosed this to journalists in Maiduguri on Monday, said the …

By Ismaila Chafe President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Lome, Togo, advocated for inter-regional collaboration on maritime security, to fight against terrorism and other crimes through effective border control. The President made the call while contributing to the consideration and adoption of the Draft Declaration by the Economic Community of …

The Bayelsa State Government has received the sum of N10.8 billion as allocation from the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) for the month July 2018.   The Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Maxwell Ebibai, said in a statement on Monday that the state earlier received N12.7bn for the month of June.   He …

By Emmanuel Oloniruha  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has deplored the purported service of impeachment notice on Benue Governor, Dr Samuel Ortom, by eight members of the House of Assembly. The party made this known in a communique issued after the end of an emergency meeting of its National Working …

Civil servants in Gombe, on Monday, obeyed the directive of the State Government to observe a work free day in honour of its first Executive Governor, Habubakar Habu Hashidu who died last Friday in Gombe after a protracted illness at the age of 74. The Gombe State Governor, Ibrahim Hassan …

A frontline Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) aspirant in Gombe State, Dr. Jamilu Isiaku Gwamna, has promised to use Lagos State as an economic model for developing the State if given the mantle to lead after the 2019 election. Gwamna stated this in his residence in Gombe during a chat with …

BY ABDULLAHI ISAH, MAIDUGURI Tricycle Riders Association, (KEKE NAPEP) members operating within Maiduguri metropolis have on Monday barricaded all major roads protesting alleged unlawful collection of money from their members by policemen . A Keke NAPEP rider,  Abubakar Ali said ” policemen have been disturbing us, when they meet us they just take …

Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki and Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, have described as “a desecration of the legislative sanctity”, the on-going situation in Benue State in which eight out of the 30 members of the State House of Assembly have commenced impeachment process against the …

Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has described the Senator representing Nasarawa West, Abdullahi Adamu, as a compulsive liar and an unreliable man who will do or say anything to suit his situation at any point in time. Saraki was reacting to the claim by Adamu that the Senate President …

By Anita Eboigbe Afrobeat superstar  musician, Femi Kuti, pulled off an electrifying show with his band ‘The Positive Force’ at the Central Park, New York on Sunday. Femi, the son of late music legend Fela Kuti, performed the sixth concert in his ‘One People, One World’ global tour at the …

By Philip Dzeremo The confusion in the Benue political turf took a new twist on Monday with 10 members of the 30-member House of Assembly endorsing a move to impeach Gov. Samuel Ortom The members, who were led by impeached Speaker, Terkimbi Ikyange, told newsmen in Makurdi that they would …

By Folasade Folarin  The Debt Management Office (DMO), says only three corporate entities accessed the domestic bonds market in 2017 with a total issuance of N23.15 billion. This is according to its recently published 2017 Annual Report and Statement of Accounts, made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), …

.By OSEHOBO OFURE The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has congratulated Archbishop Margaret Benson Idahosa, on her 75th birthday, acknowledging her immense contribution to nation-building through prayers and grooming of God-fearing Christian faithful in the state and country at large. In a statement, the governor said that the peace …

By Ismaila Chafe/ Ibrahim G Ahmed /Abubakar Ahmed The Speaker, Zamfara House of Assembly, Alhaji Sanusi Rikiji, has said that 15 persons have been kidnapped by unknown gunmen on Saturday in Maradun Local Government Area of the state. Rikiji told newsmen in Gusau on Sunday that the security situation in the …

 By Victor Okoye   Enyimba International Football Club of Aba slumped to a 0-2 defeat to Williamsville Athletic Club of Cote d’ Ivoire in Sunday’s CAF Confederation Cup Group C clash at the Robert Champroux Stadium in Abidjan. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a goal in each …

By OSEHOBO OFURE Less than 100-days after he was released from serving a jail term for an undisclosed offence, a middle aged man Kenneth Okafor is back in Police net for another crime. According to the Edo State police command, Okafor was one of the persons  suspected to have kidnapped …

The Ijaw Youths Council (IYC), has raised the alarm over the recent decision of the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, to post four Commissioners of Police to Bayelsa State in less than two weeks. The Secretary-General of the IYC, Mr. Alfred Kemepado, said in a statement on Sunday …

Malians began voting on Sunday in presidential elections, with a tight race between incumbent Ibrahim Keita and his arch-rival Soumaila Cisse, anticipated. The West African nation is holding the election amid a volatile security situation in the country’s north and centre, where various Islamist and separatist groups stage regular attacks. …

Two former governors of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso and Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau have finally met Saturday’s night in Abuja after their last chance meeting at Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport Abuja in 2011. Kwankwaso was among members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who recently decamped to the Peoples Democratic Party …

By Prudence Arobani has sued for a peaceful presidential election in Mali as the country goes to the poll to elect a new president on Sunday. Guterres, in a statement in New York by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General, said he was closely following developments in Mali ahead …

The family of the detained former National Security Adviser, NSA, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (Rtd) has formally dragged the Attorney General of the Federation and Justice Minister, Abubakar Malami SAN before the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) praying for an investigation and sanction of the minister over his unprofessional conducts and utter …

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned Mr. David Kaye, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression asking him to use his good offices and position to “publicly press the Senate President Bukola Saraki and the entire leadership of the Senate of …