The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba, on Tuesday warned politicians against misconduct during the 2015 general elections, saying he would not hesitate to deal with any of them who contravene the rules as stipulated in the Electoral Act. Represented by the Commissioner of Police (Election Planning and Monitoring), Mr. Ghazzali Muhammed, the IG gave the warning during a training workshop for security personnel that would participate in the February elections. This is just as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, said at the event that it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with some international agencies to assist in…
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A female student of Federal Government Girls College (FGGC), Jalingo, Taraba State, who was nabbed by vigilant security men alongside her father, as they allegedly attempted to smuggle two military hand grenades concealed inside her provisions into the school premises, has explained that she does not know how the grenades got into her luggage. The student, identified as 16-year-old Blessing Ellan, who stated this yesterday while fielding questions from journalists at the state police command in Jalingo, said the day she went to the market to buy her provisions, she bought gari and kept it with her customer to enable…
The #1 online lottery platform in Nigeria has awarded 60 winners of their 2014 Christmas giveaway bonanza. Grand winner Simeon Udoh walked away with N100,000 while other lucky winners like Elizabeth Ogbonnaya and Adeyemi Wahab walked away with LG Plasma TV and home theatre Chief Marketing Officer Matthew Osofisan said: ‘’This giveaway not only helped us make a difference to people this holiday but also helped us see new ways of improving our impact to transform lives in 2015. We are happy to celebrate with the winners and participants of the giveaway promo and hope for even more during our…
Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose says Presidential Goodluck Jonathan would be re-elected in February, but the result of the presidential election will not be a win-win situation. The governor said this on Monday at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, as he arrived from a trip abroad. “Let me make it clear to all Nigerians, the election is going to be a little bit turbulent, but Jonathan will win and there will be reactions. “Even if Buhari wins the election today, there will be reactions. Somebody was telling me that the violence would stop if General Muhammadu Buhari wins. This…
campaign posters on third mainland bridge. picture taken on Nov 30, 2014 After several months of pasting posters in several strategic places in Lagos State by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the Lagos State Government has started removing posters pasted in unauthorised public places across the state. It therefore warned the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Kayode Aderanti, against alleged plans to arrest its officials, while discharging this duty. The state government also declared zero tolerance for the indiscriminate pasting of posters on highways, high streets and major roads, which it said would be…
The Ogun State Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Bayo Dayo, has said that the alleged defection of the former speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Dimeji Bankole to the Social Democratic Party (SDP), would not affect the party’s chances in the general elections. Speaking in Abeokuta, the state capital on Tuesday, while inaugurating a 35-member Governorship Campaign Committee, which has Yomi Majekodunmi, as its director general, Dayo urged members of the PDP to be proactive in carrying out their assigned task of delivering the state to the party in the coming governorship election. Speaking on behalf of…
Shell Petroleum Development Company has finally agreed to pay a compensation of £55 million (N15.3 billion) for two oil spills that occurred in Bodo community in Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State in 2008. The company had allegedly offered £30 million initially, but the community was reported to have rejected it, making the oil giant present the new offer. According to a statement by Shell’s Corporate Media Relations Manager, Precious Okolobo, the £55 million settlement agreement provides for an individual payment to each claimant, who accepts the settlement agreement in compensation for losses arising from the two regrettable spills,…
Some leaders of the private sectors unions in the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) are accusing the public sector union of betrayal and fielding candidate for NLC presidency instead of leaving it for the private sector unions to slug it out, since the outgoing President, Abdulwaheed Omar is from the public sector. This is brewing crisis in the congress ahead of its election. Some members of the NLC, according to reports, have even accused President Goodluck Jonathan of working with some officials of the labour union to ensure that his preferred candidate wins. This they believe was because the president figures…
villagers weaving a boom to curtail further spread of oil Gbogidi River at Otughievwen, Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State has been contaminated following a rupture in a pipeline belonging to the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC). According to Chairman of the community, Chief Eric Sajini, villagers saw bubbles discharging crude into the water at the cracked point, which cuts through the river. Some staff of the company and the people of the community had immediately moved to ensure the oil spilled does not spread, as they were reported to be casting a boom. “We heard of the…
President Goodluck Jonathan has inaugurated his campaign organisation ahead of the February 2015 election. The inauguration, which was earlier slated for Monday was postponed following the death of the president’s younger sister, Mrs Nancy Jonathan-Obei. He used the occasion to assure Nigerians and the international community that the general elections would be free, fair and credible. According to him, the election would ensure continuity of democracy in the country. He therefore urged leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)to encourage members of the campaign organisation so as to ensure that all campaigns were issue-based. The president also commissioned campaign vehicles…
The All Progressives Congress on Tuesday said the People’s Democratic Party has become a victim of self-inflicted paranoia as a result of its panic response to a yet to be conducted opinion poll. The APC said it was now evident that the ruling party had succeeded in committing an unforced error by its frenzied reaction, which it said is understandable, because the PDP is being pounded from all sides. The APC made the assertion in a statement signed by its national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in Abuja. The APC was reacting to a statement credited to the national publicity…
Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu of Niger State, has declared that there is no morality in politics because it (politics) is all about lying and if one cannot lie, then such a person has no place in the game. The governor said: “If you cannot lie, get out of politics. Anything you are involved in has its own rule. You are in politics to win, win first and let other things follow. Don’t be the one crying louder; lest you will be the one they will take to court. “If you are talking of honesty or morals, go and become an…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will on Wednesday formally kick off its campaigns for the February elections, President Goodluck Jonathan has said. Speaking in Abuja on Tuesday at the inauguration of the Presidential Campaign Council, Mr. Jonathan said he and the party’s governorship candidates in all the 36 states in the elections would be presented with PDP flags. The president noted that the handing over of flags to other categories of candidates would be subsequently worked out by the PDP National Chairman, Adamu Mu’azu. “Tomorrow we are going to flag off the campaigns and before it used to be flagging…
The battle for the Office of President, Federal Republic of Nigeria began in earnest on Tuesday as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), kicked off his presidential campaign in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, with the declaration that insecurity, poor economy and corruption, which he identified as the three cardinal problems currently facing the country, would be tackled headlong, should he win the February 14, 2015 election. Buhari, who addressed a mammoth crowd that thronged the official inauguration of his presidential campaign, explained that the level of corruption in the country was intolerable.…
The Nigerian military has confirmed the loss of Baga in Borno State to members of the Boko Haram Terrorist group. The Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshall Alex Badeh, rising from an emergency security meeting in Abuja on Tuesday, told reporters that Niger and Chad had withdrawn their troops from Baga, and this was in part, responsible for the takeover of the town that had been in contention. He however said that the two countries had not pulled out of the multinational Joint Task Force contingent fighting the terrorist group in the north-east. Despite the recent losses to the…
As the supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) were on their way to Port Harcourt to attend the party’s presidential campaign of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, they were attacked by unidentified gunmen, police has confirmed. According to the Rivers State Police Command spokesperson, Muhammad Ahmad, the unknown gunmen “opened fire on the APC supporters”. He said that the supporters were travelling in group from Buguma in Asari-Turu Local Government Area of the state for the rally when the incident happened. The initial report, according to the police spokesperson, showed that there were no casualties. He said that the…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it would not postpone the elections February 2014, despite fears raised in some quarters that preparations for the elections was not solid enough for it to hold as soon as next month. Dr Ishmaeal Igbani, Chairman, INEC Electoral Training Institute, who spoke on behalf of the commission at a workshop for the training of security agencies in Abuja, said INEC was fully ready to conduct the 2015 elections, noting that the commission was comfortable with the fund it has at its disposal at the moment. “Anytime there is election in Nigeria, there…
A female student of Federal Government Girls College (FGGC), Jalingo, Taraba State and her father were yesterday arrested while trying to enter the school premises with two military hand grenades. Daily Trust learnt that the suspect who is an SS 1 student of the school was discovered with the hand grenades stocked in her bag during search operations by security men at the gate. The suspect and her father were said to have come from Numan in Adamawa State to resume school. Men of the Taraba police command arrested the suspects immediately after they were alerted. When contacted, Taraba Police…
The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed that unidentified gunmen attacked the All Progressives Congress (APC) supporters travelling to Port Harcourt to attend the party’s presidential campaign. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the presidential campaign flag off was held on Tuesday in Port Harcourt. DSP Muhammad Ahmad, the command’s spokesman, told NAN in Port Harcourt that the unknown gunmen “opened fire on the APC supporters”. Ahmad said that the supporters were travelling in group from Buguma in Asari-Turu Local Government Area of the state for the rally. According to Ahmad, the initial report had shown that there were…
Former actress and beauty queen c*m Nurse, threw her 13 year old daughter, Tessa Williams a lavish birthday ceremony yesterday! Friends and family members were invited to the lavish in-house party and yea, her husband Williams was the DJ. See more photos below: