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  Embattled Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen has written a petition to the acting Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Adamu, over alleged threat to the lives of workers on his farm in Masaka, Nasarawa State. According to Thisday newspaper, the petition written filed yesterday by his counsel, …

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has urged the people of the South West to take vengeance through their votes on Nigeria’s former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, over his alleged roles in election rigging in the country. The former Lagos State Governor, who stated …

  President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, in Ondo State asked Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to stop making noise about plans to rig elections when their mentor, former President Olusegun Obasanjo had always rigged elections on the platform of the party. According to him, PDP has no right to complain about election …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has registered 1,205,187 candidates for the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, which is scheduled to take place between Saturday, March 16 and Saturday, March 23, with Lagos and Kaduna states recording the highest registrations of 161,654 and 76,049 candidates, respectively. The board also said …

Immediate-past governor of Delta State and All Progressives Congress 2019 Delta South senatorial candidate, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, has revealed why he decided to team up with Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru, the state APC governorship candidate to ensure all-round victory for the party in the coming elections. Speaking at the …

A chopper conveying Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo to a campaign rally in Kogi State, crash landed in Kabba. According to a tweet by his spokesman, Mr Laolu Akande, the VP and all the occupants of the chopper are safe. He said the VP continued on his campaign trip after the incident. …

The Chairman of Zenith Bank Plc, Mr. Jim Ovia (CON), has lauded the federal government’s economic team for pulling the economy out of economic recession, acknowledging that the country’s economic outlook shows that it is now on a growth trajectory. Giving his goodwill message at the Deloitte in Dialogue Nigeria …

  The trial of the embattled Senator Peter Nwoboshi, senator representing Delta North Senatorial district, was stalled Thursday, as his lawyers urged the court to stop an official of Zenith Bank Plc, from testifying in the trial. Nwoboshi alongside his two companies;  Golden Touch Construction Projects Limited and Suiming Electricals are …

The Independent National Electoral Commission has confirmed its decision to bar the All Progressives Congress from fielding candidates for state and federal elections in Zamfara State as it moves to release the list of governorship candidates for this years election. This was disclosed in a statement on Wednesday by INEC’s …

The suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen has nothing to do with the forthcoming elections, the Federal Government has said. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed stated this while briefing newsmen in Abuja on Monday. Alhaji Mohammed said that the suspension is the consequence of …