BREAKING NEWS

President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu as the group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and replaced him with Maikanti Baru. In a press statement issued today in Abuja, the president office stated that Kachikwu as the minister for State for Petroleum will now be...

... Shareholders express concern Niyi Olaoye Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefelie has announced the dissolution of the board and management cadres of Skye Bank of Nigeria Plc by the apex bank over an estimated non-performing loan portfolio of N700bn, which is due to an...

A High Court of Abia State has stopped the Chief Judge of Abia State, President of the Customary Court of Appeal and any other judiciary officer, from swearing-in Mr. Uche Oga as governor. The order made today in court by Justice Ahuchaogu reads: "Upon this motion ex-parte pursuant to section...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has issued a Certificate of Return to Samson Ogah, who was declared the validly elected Governor of Abia State by a Federal High Court. The Certificate of Return was issued to Ogah today despite the appeal filed by the incumbent, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu. The...

A former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Ojo Madueke, is dead. An online report has it that he collapsed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja shortly after arriving from the United States of America (USA) where he had gone to attend graduation ceremony of a relative. Madueke was a...

A Federal High Court sitting in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja has ordered the Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu, to vacate office immediately. The  order which given today  follows allegation that he submitted false information to his party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the party’s governorship primary...

With about six weeks to the judgment of the Bayelsa State Election Petition Tribunal taking place in Abuja, a socio-political organisation, Bayelsa Patriots, on Friday raised the alarm alleging that the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in the 2015 governorship election, Chief Timipre Sylva and his camp are already...

  Barely three days after the death of former Super Eagles Coach, Stephen Keshi, has another former coach of the same team and the current Technical Director of the senior national team, Amodu Shaibu died at 58. He was said to have died in his sleep early hours of today,...

The family of the former captain and coach of the Nigerian Super Eagle, Stephen Keshi, has announced the death of the former tactician. He was reportedly dead at the wee hour of today, Wednesday, June 8th, 2016, aged 54. The statement was signed by his relative and manager, Emmanuel Ado...

  Oluwaseye Tokede The Federal Government said it has recovered more than N126.5 billion ($10.3bn) in looted cash and assets between May 29, 2015 and May 25, 2016. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, revealed this in a press statement on Saturday. He disclosed that government was...