Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria’s former First Lady, Hajia Turai Yar’Adua on Thursday floored incumbent First Lady Patience Goodluck Jonathan as Justice Peter Affren of the Abuja High Court set [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York An appeal filed by the imprisoned former governor of Delta State, James Onanefe Ibori to have his prison term slashed was dismissed today in London. read [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York As the battle to get the APC merger registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) rages on, the Delta state Democratic People’s Party (DPP) this [...]
The Joint Task Force (JTF) in Kano today arrested seven suspects believed to belong to the Boko Haram sect, and rescued four women. read more Read full story on author [...]
By Global Information Network (GIN) STRIKE SEASON LOOMS FOR UNDERPAID AFRICAN WORKERS Apr. 30 (GIN) – With U.S. fast food workers walking picket lines for better wages, in a [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York An appeal filed by the imprisoned former governor of Delta State, James Onanefe Ibori to have his prison term slashed, has been listed for hearing tomorrow [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The leadership and members of the Rivers State House of Assembly say they have unveiled a plan by “Abuja” to falsely impeach the Speaker and Governor [...]
Over the weekend, Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Godsday Orubebe, brushed aside a series of corruption allegations dangling around his neck and publicly declared his intention and preparedness to run for [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The Civil Society Network Against Corruption (CSNAC), a coalition of 150 anti-corruption organizations, has petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate new allegations [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has endorsed the application of the African People’s Congress (APC) to proceed with hearing on its suit seeking judicial [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested the managing director of Capital Oil and Gas Industries Limited, Mr Ifeanyi Ubah. read more Read full [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Former Nigerian lawmaker, Dino Melaye, has sued ex-Governor Ibrahim Idris of Kogi State over alleged corruption, looting and massive misappropriation of state funds. The former lawmaker [...]
BY TUNDE ODESOLA, OSOGBO For stealing a N50,000 Sony Ericsson phone belonging to Governor Rauf Aregbesola, a 31-year-old Kelvin Ighodalo has been sentenced to 45-year imprisonment by an Osogbo High [...]
Directors at Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs are refusing to retire after attaining the mandatory retirement age of 60 years, sources have said. Several Ministry workers confirmed that the directors, [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Nigeria's First lady's Patience Faka Jonathan, has deteriorated again, becoming so critical that she has been from a proposed official visit to Namibia and South Africa [...]
The political conflict within the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in Nigeria’s oil rich Rivers state took a new turn today with the suspension of the speaker of the state assembly [...]
By Ola' Audu About five police officers were killed in an attack in Bama Town of Borno State. read more Read full story on author website »
By SaharaReporters, New York Gunmen in the Sagana waterways in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State today kidnapped another five expatriate crew aboard an oil services support vessel, MV [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) has called on the Federal Government to expedite action at prosecuting former President Olusegun Obasanjo for the financial malpractices he [...]
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described the grounding of the Rivers State Government's private aircraft by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) as a glaring case of political [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has denied newspaper reports that it has rejected a bid by some political parties to merge into the All Progressives [...]
By Premium Times The battle for 2015 in Akwa Ibom has assumed a deadly dimension. An Akwa Ibom state senator, Aloysius Eyok, has accused the state governor, Godswill Akpabio, of [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Nine employees of Octopus Clan Nigerian Limited and the Deck Oil Services have been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen along the Ilebiri Creek in the Southern Ijaw [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The Joint Task Force in Niger Delta says its officials arrested 76 suspects who may be involved in oil bunkering. The force also disclosed that it [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The Joint Task Force Operation’s (JTF) in Borno State today warned the public about the existence of a special kidnapping squad set up by the Boko [...]
By Nnenna Ibeh The Federal Government on Saturday intensified its attack on the Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, with the National Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, banning the Rivers State-owned bombardier [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The notorious Boko Haram operative, Mohammed Chad, was yesterday evening killed in a gun battle with JTF. The fight occurred at Ruwan-Zafi area of Maiduguri metropolis [...]
By Premium Times Boko Haram were paid N500 million ($3.15 million) to free seven French hostages kidnapped in February, a confidential document from the Nigerian government available to Reuters states. [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The crisis in the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) over the 2015 presidential ambition of Mr. Goodluck Jonathan threatened to erupt into the open today as the [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York A former pianist at the Household of God Church run by Reverend Chris Okotie, today filed a motion at a Lagos Magistrate court, asking for [...]
