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The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has revealed the schedule and plans for the upcoming 2019 general elections. The schedule including dates of the general elections is contained in a statement published on the official website of the Commission on Thursday, March 9, 2017. The electoral commission in the statement disclosed that it was bringing […]

namby-pamby London-based newspaper that goes by its appropriate name, “Observer”, falsely observed that former President Goodluck Jonathan purportedly rejected an offer from the British government to help rescue the abducted Chibok girls during the Jonathan administration. This is not the first time a foreign based newspaper would stoop so low to allow itself be used […]

Audu Maikori, lawyer and Nigerian music industry mogul, has been rearrested by the Nigeria Police Force on the orders of Kaduna Governor, Nasir El Rufai. According to information available to The Trent, the boss of Chocolate City, was picked up in Lagos, on Friday [March 10, 2017], where he lives and flown to Kaduna City. Maikori collapsed […]

A would-be teenage suicide bomber has said Boko Haram militants paid her just 200 naira ($0.64) to blow herself up in a city in northeast Nigeria. In footage obtained by Sky News, the 14-year-old girl said the militants had told her and a friend to detonate their explosive vests in a “crowded place” in Maiduguri, the […]Read More

A Kaduna market has been shut down by men of the Nigerian Police on Thursday, March 9, 2017 after a fight broke out over an Igbo trader’s choice of name for his dog. The new Panteka market along the Nnamdi Azikiwe bypass in Kaduna which is the major spare parts centre in the state was […]

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is set to return to the country tomorrow, Friday, March 10, 2017. The president is on an indefinite sick leave in the United Kingdom. According to information on the official presidency’s Twitter handle, @NGRPresident, the president is expected to return after concluding “routine medical check-ups”. President @MBuhari is expected to return to Nigeria […]Read More

Rejection Of Nigerian Army Kangaroo Rights Abuses Investigation Panel And Request For Proper Criminal Investigation And Punitive Measures Against Buratai & Ors The gross rights abuses in the past 21 months of the ailing President Muhammadu Buhari’s Government of Nigeria can never be investigated by the same perpetrators of the heinous crimes (i.e. Nigerian Army […]

A trial that lasted almost 12 years reached a milestone on Thursday when Justice Ishaq Bello of the FCT High Court, Abuja, sentenced two police officers, Ezekiel Acheneje and Emmanuel Baba, to death ‎for killing two of the six Igbo traders in Apo, Abuja on June 8, 2005. The two policemen were found guilty of […]

To a mother whose infant was dying at the scene of a motor accident on Monday, March 6, 2017, the angel she must have prayed that God would send to her help her turned out to be Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, the immediate past governor of Ondo State. An eyewitness, David Aboi who spoke with The […]

The answer is simple. Big Brother lacks the moral obligation to disqualify Kemen over his situation with Tboss when worse has been condoned. The show itself reeks of immorality, period. Several acts of immorality; sexual and non sexual have been perpetrated by contestants and condoned by the organisers of the show since its inception. But […]

Femi Fani-Kayode, a two-time minister and chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has responded to the report by the Guardian UK alleging that former President Goodluck Jonathan rejected the help of the UK government in rescuing the abducted Chibok girls. Chief Fani-Kayode slammed the report as “childish and asinine” and went on to accuse members […]Read More

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has refuted reports that his administration refused help from the British government to rescue the abducted Chibok girls. The Guardian UK reported that the Jonathan-led administration rejected the offer of British armed forces to help in rescuing the girls, who were abducted in April 2014. In a statement issued by Ikechukwu Eze, a media adviser […]Read More