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By Samuel Ogidan Abuja Two months to 2015 general elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),  yesterday accused All Progressives Congress (APC) of not committed to issues-based campaign. The party said that it remained on the moral high ground compared to APC as far as its commitment to issues-based campaigns is concerned. PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Read More

By Rotimi Ojomoyela Ado Ekiti As the review of the 1999 constitution goes through state Houses of Assembly across the country, the factional Ekiti state House of Assembly yesterday turned down autonomy for the local governments in Nigeria. However, the All Progressives Congress lawmakers, in their plenary at a secret location a week ago, had voted in favour of  local Read More

By Aherhoke Okioma Yenagoa Ahead of the 2015 general elections, the Defence Headquarters has deployed 30 gunboats to beef up security in the Niger Delta region. Out going media coordinator, Joint Task Force (JTF) Operation Pulo Shield, Col. Mustapha Anka, disclosed this yesterday during his end of year press briefing at the JTF headquarters in Yenagoa. He said while some Read More

By Bode Olagoke Abuja Former Head of State and presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), has said that he accepted the choice of Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, to assist him in the rescue mission of Nigeria due to what he called “his unimpeachable integrity.” The choice of Buhari running-mate had delayed for six days after Read More

By Aliyu Askira Kano Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, has threatened to attack the Emir of Kano, Muhummadu Sanusi II, in retaliation for the emir’s call on Kano residents and other Nigerians to arm and defend themselves against the terror organisation. The emir had earlier issued a call to arms after a series of deadly attacks by suspected Boko Haram Read More

By Ameh Ejekwonyilo, Kawu Yaqoob Mahmoud and Hannah Adiya Egbodo, Abuja Justice Ahmed Ramat Mohammed of an Abuja Federal High Court yesterday set aside the letter of invitation sent by the House of Representatives to the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, and Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to appear before its investigative panel over alleged spending of N10 Read More

By Aideloje Ojo Minna Thirty-eight thousand unemployed graduates are on the awaiting list after the Niger state government employed over 8,000 graduates of National Certificate of Education, NCE Higher National Diploma and University graduates, Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has said. Aliyu stated this yesterday while receiving in courtesy call the Director of Education Corps of the Nigeria Air force Air Read More

By Ezrel Tabiowo Abuja The Senate yesterday dismissed as unfounded a media report that there was a fresh crisis brewing in the Senate over an ongoing plot by aggrieved senators to impeach David Mark. The spokesperson of the Senate, Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe, said the story existed only in the imagination of its authors. It had been reported that the impeachment Read More

Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara state met yesterday on the controversies trailing the emergence of Senator Simon S. Ajibola as the party’s gubernatorial candidate and resolved that Abuja had the final say over the matter. The party’s spokesman, Chief Rex Olawoye, who spoke with newsmen after an executive meeting of the party, said the leaders met Read More

By Sadiq Abubakar Maiduguri General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) has vowed to work with all Nigerians to end the reign of terror in any part of Nigeria, especially the Boko Haram insurgency in the North-east. The APC presidential candidate made the pledge in a statement he personally signed yesterday to condole with the victims of recent bomb blasts in Kano and Read More

By Jibrin Baba Ndace Abuja The Adamawa state government has expressed satisfaction with the successes recorded, so far, in dislodging insurgents in some part of northern states. The Chief of Staff to Gov Bala Ngilari, Alhaji Chubado Tijjani, made this known in an interview with journalists in Mubi. Tijjani, who was in Mubi on behalf of the government to assess Read More

By Ime Akpan Lagos More than 100 Nigerians who went to the Scandinavian countries of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland for employment opportunity have been deported. The deportees including men, women, and children, arrived the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, yesterday aboard a cargo aircraft. One of the deportees, who gave his name as Isaac Ejiofor, Read More

National security is the collective responsibility of all Nigerians irrespective of social, ethnic or religious affiliation, the chairman of the Advisory Council of the Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation, (SABMF) and the former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Mamman Nasir, has said. In a statement in Kaduna, foundation said  that lack of unity of purpose in the campaign Read More

By Muhammad Tanko Shittu and Bashir Mohammed, Kano Not fewer than 30 persons were killed at a twin explosion at Jos terminus market, yesterday even bags containing explosives were uncovered at the famous grains market, popularly known as Dawanu market in Kano state. Blueprint learnt that the Jos blasts occurred about 6:15 pm, while second happened at 6:18 pm. Our Read More

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday granted the application of the people of Kebbe/Tambuwal Federal Constituency of Sokoto state, to appeal the court’s ruling that disallowed the constituents from being joined as defendants in the suit instituted by the embattled Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal. After listening to counsel’s ‘no objection’ to the application for Read More

By Bode Olagoke Abuja Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and presidential aspirant of All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar, has urged his party not to leave any stone unturned in its quest to ensure free, fair and credible presidential primaries that would provide the impetus for enthroning the change that Nigerians had clamoured for. Atiku’s charge to the APC was Read More

By Bode Olagoke Abuja Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro, has approved the recommendations of the Controller General of Prisons, Dr Peter E Ekpendu, for the immediate removal and suspension of the Controller  of Prison Niger state, Musa Maiyaki, the Officer-in charge of Minna Prisons, ACP. Mohammed I. Bena, and all other officers on duty on December 6, 2014, when Read More