Two chieftains of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna state have been reportedly abducted while three others were injured following an attack by bandits along the Kaduna-Kachia road. The attack was said to have occurred Thursday night at Tashar Icce, near Kujama, headquarters of Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna state. The party…
The Italian Embassy in Nigeria, has pledged to support the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC) to facilitate pilgrimage to Rome. According to a statement shared on the twitter handle of the NCPC, the Italian Ambassador, Mr. Stefanor De Leo made the promised when the Executive Secretary of the commission, Rev. Yakubu Pam, paid him a…
A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Babachir Lawal, has said that about 40 leading Christian politicians in the north are working to ensure that the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC), failed. Speaking in an interview on Arise TV on Wednesday, Lawal said , the introduction of a…
The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) has ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off its ongoing nationwide strike. ASUU has been on strike since February 14 to press home the demand for improved funding for universities, a review of salaries for lecturers, among other issues. Several meetings between ASUU and the federal government have…
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state and his supporters have pulled out of the Presidential Campaign Council of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The decision was taken at a meeting held in the early hours of Wednesday at the private residence of the governor in Port Harcourt. In a communique issued at the end of…
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Taraba state, Senator Emmanuel Bwacha has been sacked by federal high court in Jalingo, the state capital. Delivering judgment in a suit filed against Bwacha by one of the APC governorship candidates, David Sabo Kente, on Tuesday, the presiding judge, Simon Amobeda, held that no governorship…
