News

A former Inspector-General of Police, Dr Solomon Arase, has said the major issue with the Special Anti-Robbery Squad is leadership. Arase asked the police authorities to reshape public perception and redirect the focus of the police unit to its core mandate. The former police boss spoke in Lagos on Monday …

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has agreed to adopt direct primaries to conduct elections that will produce Presidential, Senate, House of Representatives, Governorship and State House of Assembly’s candidates ahead of 2019 general elections, a reliable party source told Daily Trust last night. …

After the denial of his request to use the Eagle Square for his declaration for the presidency, a former governor of Kano State and presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has vowed to launch his bid today. Kwankwaso is seeking to …

Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, yesterday, decried the pervading level of corruption in the justice sector, even as he called for stiffer sanctions against legal practitioners found culpable in acts of judicial malpractices. Osinbajo, who spoke at the ongoing Annual General Conference of Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, in Abuja …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Kogi East Senate aspirant, Dr Victor Alewo Adoji has been endorsed by coalition of all political parties in Kogi State. Speaking at Adoji’s declaration ceremony in Olamaboro on Saturday, chairman of Coalition of Political Parties in Nigeria, Kogi State chapter, Hon. Itodo said Kogi East …

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, yesterday said no official of the Rivers State government would appear before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over its politically-motivated investigations until the commission approached the Court of Appeal to set aside the 2007 judgment barring the commission from investigating the state. In …

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has won all the 27 chairmanship seats in the just concluded local government elections in Imo State. Chairman of the State Independent Electoral Commission (ISIEC), Mr. Ethelbert Ebebuchi, revealed this on Sunday in Owerri. Mr Ebebuchi made the disclosure while announcing the results of the …

GOVERNOR Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, yesterday, promised to rebuild the demolished Music House owned by Evangelist Yinka Ayefele. This came as the estranged relationship among Governor Ajimobi; a former governor of the state, Chief Rashidi Ladoja and another former governor, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala was, yesterday, set aside at the …

A head of his public declaration on Wednesday for the 2019 presidential election, Senator Rabiu Kwankwanso has vowed to address what he has described as the infrastructural deficit in the country. A statement announcing the declaration issued by his campaign also frowned at the country’s increasing dependence on foreign loans. …

The constituents of Agbenema Ife Community in Omala Local Government Area, Kogi East Senatorial District in Kogi State have cried out over what they termed fraudulent execution of constituency projects by Senator Attai Aidoko. Speaking to our reporter, the community alleged that the community’s major problem is water.  Fortunately, when …