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Gombe State Election Petitions Tribunal on Monday granted an application seeking service of court processes on the state Governor, Ibrahim Dankwambo, through substituted means. The ex parte application was filed before the Justice M. O. Adewara-led elections tribunal by the ...

President Goodluck Jonathan’s handlers on Monday began what is suspected to be a clampdown on journalists. Their first victim is Mr. Ubale Musa, the State House correspondent of German Radio, Deutsche Welle. Musa’s accreditation tag was withdrawn by security operatives ...

The  State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has dissolved the State Executive Council. According to a statement on Monday  by the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Sola Gold, affected by the dissolution included commissioners,  special advisers, senior special assistants, special ...

20-year old Joberi Pyagbara, a Rivers state based cult member, (presented above) says he executed and buried a rival clique member in a community near to his own after an adversary faction  known as Dewua raged his area and slaughtered ...

Rival armed groups in Central African Republic agreed on Sunday to a peace agreement requiring them to disarm and potentially face justice for war crimes committed during two years of conflict. The agreement signed between 10 armed groups and the ...

Some gunmen on Friday abducted a lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Dr. Femi Omisore, who was on his way to attend a funeral at Oye Ekiti in Ekiti State. Our correspondent gathered on Sunday that Omisore, a ...

The police in Lagos have launched a manhunt for an Assistant Superintendent of Police, recognized basically as Mohammed, who purportedly shot dead a tricycle driver, Akeem Aranse, amid an argument in the Shasha, Akowonjo territory. It was learnt that Mohammed, ...

Ogun-East senator-elect, Buruji Kashamu, has said that he got wind of the plot to abduct and take him to the United States to face charges of illicit drugs through a friend of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister ...

The Oba of Lagos, Riliwanu Akiolu, says there is a need for non-indigenes in Lagos State to respect the tradition and culture of their host. The monarch said this during an exclusive interview with our correspondent.   While responding to ...

President Goodluck Jonathan has revealed that some of his friends deserted him after he conceded defeat to his rival General Muhammadu Buhari in the March 28 presidential election. “Some hard decisions have their own costs. No doubt about that. It ...