Senate Bans Same Sex Marriage In Nigeria, violators liable to 14 years...
It would be recalled that the Same Sex Bill, 2011 was passed by the Senate on Tuesday 29, November, 2011 and the House of Representatives on Tuesday 2, July 2013.However, some differences were noticed...
View ArticleUEFA Champions League draw for the last 16
The Champions League has been whittled down to 16 teams and on Monday Europe’s elite found out who they will battle it out with in order to reach the quarter-finals.As usual the draw at Uefa’s...
View ArticleNFA gives financial breakdown of FIFA 2014 World Cup
The Nigeria Football Association (NFA) on Wednesday explained in detail, the amount to be received by the country following its participation in the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals.The financial explanation...
View Article35 Kano women fail mass wedding test over HIV and pregnancy
Thirty-five women were, yesterday, disqualified by the Kano State Hisbah Board from participating in the mass wedding organised and sponsored by the state government.Those disqualified included 19...
View ArticleCourt sentences Kabiru Sokoto to life imprisonment
Mastermind of the Christmas day bomb blast that killed about 44 persons and wounded 75 others at St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, Madalla, Niger State, in 2011, Kabiru Umar, alias Kabiru Sokoto, was...
View ArticleJonathan will win northern votes in 2015 - Tukur
The Speaker, House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, is set to clash with the leadership of his party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, following the party’s request, yesterday, that he declare...
View ArticleMissing oil revenue: FG beams searchlight on oil and gas sector
With the searchlight still beaming on the nation’s oil and gas sector over allegations of missing revenue, the Federal Government yesterday inaugurated an Inter-Ministerial task team to ensure the...
View ArticleA new dawn in Tambuwal’s House
The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP was last night locked in a meeting with the remnants of the party caucus in the House of Representatives in Transcorp Hotel, Abuja. Last...
View ArticleN225M Bullet Proof Cars: Reps adopt committee’s report finding Oduah culpable
*Ask Jonathan to review her position as ministerThe House of Representatives yesterday adopted the Aviation committee report which found the Minister of Aviation, Mrs. Stella Oduah culpable over her...
View ArticleNigeria Education sector stinks! Infrastructure now worse
For about six months now, public universities, the most vital segment of the country’s tertiary education system had been closed down due to strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of...
View ArticleKano State Government spends N278m for Mass wedding
Kano State government has said that it spent a whooping N278. 270 million to facilitate the wedding of 1,111 couples under the fourth phase of its divorcees, widows and spinsters mass marriage...
View ArticleObasanjo/Iyabo feud: Why we won’t intervene — Yoruba elders
Suggestions that Yoruba elders will intervene in the feud between former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and his daughter, Iyabo, were yesterday ruled out as prominent leaders from the South-West...
View Article2015 Elections: INEC begins issuing of permanent voters cards in 2014
As part of its preparations for the 2015 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, would begin issuing permanent voters cards next year.This was disclosed in Abuja...
View ArticleFormer Senate President, Ameh Ebute’s letter to Obasanjo
SENATOR AMEH EBUTE, CON(FORMER SENATE PRESIDENT)31/32 MANGAL PLAZA, AREA 11, GARKI, ABUJA0809088065618th December, 2013.RE: BEFORE IT IS TOO LATEPreambleAs discerning Nigerians who found the so-called...
View ArticleGowon and Danjuma caution Obasanjo, others over controversial letter
Ex-President Olusegun ObasanjoA former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd.) and a former Minister of Defence, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma, have cautioned Nigerians, especially those who have held...
View ArticleAtiku: I have not made up my mind on APC
Former Vice-President Atiku AbubakarFormer Vice- President Atiku Abubakar has said he has not made any decision on whether to join the All Progressives Congress or not.Atiku, a member of the ruling...
View ArticleFour people killed in Manila airport, Philippines
Ukol Talumpa was said to have survived two previous attacks| credits: AFPGunmen have shot dead four people, including a mayor, at Manila airport in the Philippines, officials have said.Ukol Talumpa,...
View ArticlePDP to experience mass defection again
Members during plenary at the floor of the Nigeria House of RepresentativesBarring any last-minute change in the unfolding schemes on the political scene, there is imminent mass defection of Peoples...
View ArticleStop abusing Jonathan - Alamieyeseigha, Aminu, others tell APC
Former governors, deputy governors and governorship candidates of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP), among others, have lashed out at the All Progressive Congress (APC) over what they...
View ArticlePresident Jonathan replies Obasanjo's Letter
*Ex-Senate President accuses him of inciting mob actionIn what appears as an indirect response by President Goodluck Jonathan to the letter written by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to him, a...
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