International National

From IPOB Women To Leah Sharibu, Most-Talked-About Human Rights Abuses

or marching in support of Biafra, more than 30 women affiliated to the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) were tear-gassed, loaded into trucks and whisked off to prison. After more than 24 hours during which they were refused visits by family members, the Police moved to charge them to court for “unlawful assembly”. The […]

Politics

Police Cut Power Supply To Dino Melaye’s House

As the hide-and-seek game between Dino Melaye, the senator representing Kogi Central District in the National Assembly, and the Nigerian Police Force continues at his residence in Abuja, SaharaReporters can authoritatively report that the power supply to the lawmaker’s house has been cut off by the security operatives, who have been keeping vigil at the […]

National

PDP mourns Former-President, tasks FG to immortalise him

Prince Uche Secondus, the National Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says Nigeria has lost one of its most compassionate and humane leaders in the late former President, Alhaji Shehu Shagari. econdus in a statement issued by his Media Aide,  Ike Abonyi on Saturday in Abuja, said that Shagari was the last man standing among principled leaders upon whom the democratic foundation of […]

National Politics

IBB mourns Former President Shehu Shagari

Former Military Head of State, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, has expressed heartfelt condolences to the family of Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari, GCFR who died today. Shagari died at the National Hospital in Abuja , after a protracted illness. Babangida, one of the military officers that toppled Shagari’s government in December 1983, issued a statement of condolence, […]

International National

Shehu Shagari – Former president of Nigeria, passes on at 93

While in public service, Shehu Shagari served in a ministerial post for seven times before becoming the president on October 1, 1979 reigning until December 31, 1983. He is the only known president in the Second Nigerian Republic after the termination of military rule in Nigeria. General Olusegun Obasanjo is credited as aiding the transition […]

Politics

INEC Withdraws Certificate of Return From Delta Deputy Speaker

Dr. Muhammed Lecky, the INEC National Commissioner, South-South, issued the Certificate of Return withdrawn from the Deputy Speaker to Emeka Ozegbe, as the elected member of the Delta State House of Assembly representing Ndokwa East constituency. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has withdrawn the Certificate of Return it issued to the Deputy Speaker of […]

Politics

Why Can’t You Flag Off Your Presidential Campaign In Zamfara Or Borno? Fayose Asks Buhari

Ayodele Fayose, immediate past Governor of Ekiti State, has queried President Muhammadu Buhari on the decision to flag off the campaign for his reelection in Akwa Ibom. He also accused the President of making “only phone calls” to the state, which has been the hotbed of killings in recent times. According to Fayose, Buhari should […]

Politics

Oshiomhole – “PDP ‘not an option’ in 2019”

Oshiomhole, who spoke on Thursday with State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, said the opposition Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) is not an option. According to him, Nigerians are not ready to vote for PDP again.“PDP is just not an option; particularly when their candidate is […]