No fewer than 1,500 refugees and migrants have lost their lives attempting to cross the Mediterranean in the first seven months of 2018, the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said. The refugee agency said the bleak milestone was confirmed after more than 850 lives were lost in June andContinue Reading
Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Friday attributed the massive development going on in the state to the harmonious relationship between the state executive and legislature. Ambode said this when he received the Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures of Nigeria at the Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja. The NewsContinue Reading
The UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said it was shocked to learn of the tragic death of six Nigerian asylum-seekers, among them three children, who were killed in a blast in the far north of Cameroon. The UN refugee agency, said it had learnt that on July 29, 12Continue Reading
Governor Umaru Al-Makura on Thursday expressed confidence that the gale of defections sweeping across various state chapters of the All Progressive Congress (APC), would not reach Nasarawa State. “The gale of defections rocking the APC will not reach Nasarawa; I am very confident of that,” Al-Makura declared in Lafia, duringContinue Reading
A Sokoto legislator has made a stunning claim of bribery against Gov.Aminu Tambuwal, who left the All Progressives Congress to the Peoples Democratic Party on Wednesday. The member of the state House of Assembly, who declined to follow the governor to the PDP, said he was offered N13 million byContinue Reading
The Lagos State House of Assembly on Wednesday said it had concluded arrangements to host the Conference of Speakers of State Houses of Assembly between Aug. 3 and Aug. 5. The Chairman, House Committee on Information, Strategy and Security, Mrs Adefunmilayo Tejuoso, made this known in a statement in Lagos.Continue Reading
Thousands of people are joining the All Progressives Congress, APC, even as Senate President Bukola Saraki and Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara announced their departure, to rejoin their old party, the Peoples Democratic Party. Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo, chairman of the All Progressives Congress Governors’ Forum made this knownContinue Reading
By Ismaila Chafe President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja held a closed-door meeting with security chiefs and the Minister of Defence, retired Brig.-Gen. Mansur Dan-Ali, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that President Buhari, who presided over the meeting which lasted for aboutContinue Reading
By Shuaib Sadiq A Kaduna High Court on Thursday fixed Oct 4 to rule on the bail application of the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife Zinat. The Presiding Judge, Justice Gideon Kurada, adjourned the matter after counsel to the defendants Mr MaxwellContinue Reading
