Former Political Adviser to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Ahmed Gulak, has declared himself as the new National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Gulak was at the Wadata Complex of the national secretariat of the country’s main opposition party on Wednesday, where he took over the PDP’s structure. Addressing newsmen at the secretariat, the former…
The immediate past governor of Kogi State, Idris Wada, was on Wednesday not present at the inauguration of his successor, Yahaya Bello, in Lokoja, where the handover ceremony took place. Wada, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was not seen around the venue of the event. He was not on ground to perform handover formalities…
There was tension among motorists and pedestrians on Wednesday evening when officers of the Mobile Police and a Navy personnel engaged in a gun battle in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. It was gathered that both men of the Force showed their supremacy in a gun duel, which left many people scampering to safety…
Chairman of Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts Nigeria Limited, Jide Omokore, has been apprehended by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Premium Times reports. Omokore, who is an ally of former president, Goodluck Jonathan, was picked up on Tuesday evening in connection with a series of multi-billion dollar petrol import and crude export…
Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri, lost her daughter, Jackie Ifidon-Ola (nee Waziri) to the cold hands of death. Jackie, said to be 39 years old, reportedly died in the early hours of Sunday, January 24, of an undisclosed ailment at a hospital in Abuja. According to the…
Pandemonium was let loose on Tuesday when a pregnant woman fainted at Surulere Police Station in Lagos State. The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports that the woman, Mrs Tosin Taiwo, business woman with eight weeks pregnancy, was arrested at Meran by police officers, but taken to Surulere, where she was detained for over three…
The election of Nyeson Wike as governor of Rivers State has been upheld by a Supreme Court sitting in Abuja. A seven-man panel of the Supreme Court judges headed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed confirmed Wike as governor of the state on Wednesday. In the lead verdict read by Justice Kekere-Ekun,…
Everyone desires financial success, but that desire must be matched with SMART financial goals to translate to success. Most times, we set financial goals that are self-defeating. The reason why it seems like New Year resolutions to eat healthier or exercise regularly almost always fail by the second month of the year is because most…