Politics

A Borno-based pastor, Kallamu Dikwa, on Tuesday threatened to sue the State Security Service for alleged violation of his fundamental human rights. The clergy lamented that his ordeal at the hands of the SSS began earlier this year when he ...

I am alarmed at the gale of defections from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress, so soon after the elections. No sooner had the results been declared, than the political “hejira” began. Elsewhere, losers of elections always ...

The University of Lagos convocation ended on Thursday with President Goodluck Jonathan and his minister of Education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, snubbing the three-day occasion. The college likewise presented emeriti professorship on three resigned lecturers of the establishment. The beneficiaries are ...

President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday picked holes in the aftereffects of the March 28 presidential race, saying “the Peoples Democratic Party couldn’t have got those sorts of scores” it had in a few spots. Jonathan, who talked not long after ...

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan declared Thursday in Abuja that if members of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) remain committed to the vision of its founding fathers and work very hard, the party will return to power at the Federal level ...

The State House Press statement below.. President Goodluck Jonathan pledged Thursday in Abuja that he will do all within his powers to ensure that all Nigerian territory still held by terrorists and insurgents are totally liberated before May 29, 2015. ...

Nigeria’s president-elect Muhammadu Buhari, has instructed all his staff, including the personnel attached directly to him, to steer clear of all dealings with the media, and leave all media affairs to his official media team. In a statement in Abuja ...

The Federal Government has condemned the execution of four Nigerians by Indonesian authorities over drug-related offences, despite pleas for clemency by President Goodluck Jonathan, describing it as a disappointment. The government however extended its condolences to the families of the ...

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has advised the in-coming government of Gen. Muhammad Buhari (Rtd), to reverse the current privatizations exercise of the power sector for it to move forward, Leadership reports. Atiku made this statement at the 36th Kaduna ...

As per the Remuneration Package  set up together by the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission, President Goodluck Jonathan, Vice-president Namadi Sambo, non-returning Senators and House of Representatives individuals, ministers and  presidential associates will be paid a severance bundle of ...