Chairman of the National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ahmed Makarfi has formally resumed office at the PDP National Secretariat in Abuja. Makarfi was led by his Secretary, Senator Ben Obi and supported by members of the caretaker committee including staff of the PDP secretariat. Prayers were offered for him and the

Some Nigerians in Abuja have expressed mixed feelings on the deleting of the National Youth Service Corps Decree from the 1999 Constitution. The development came up in the recent Senate review and consideration of 33 Bills for passage. The bills are contained in the report of the Joint Committee of the National Assembly on the

The Nigerian Air Force said on Thursday that the Boko Haram terrorists were back to the Sambisa Forest area of Borno State, but said its fighter jets and attack helicopters had bombed the terrorists’ hideouts 108 times between April and July, 2017. The Air Component Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, the military operation in the

The extent of the fatality recorded during last Tuesday’s ambush of oil exploration workers in the Lake Chad Basin by the terrorist group, Boko Haram, emerged Thursday as sources said 48 bodies of the victims of the attack were deposited at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) mortuary. The information came just as Acting

The Senate has expressed its commitment towards ensuring Nigerians are not shortchanged as the upper chamber begins work on a bill to demutualise the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE. Acting Chairman of the Senate Committee on Capital Markets, Senator Foster Ogola disclosed this at a briefing with Senate Correspondents at the National Assembly complex. The demutualisation

The House of Representatives has threatened to issue a warrant of arrest against Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole over his refusal to appear before them to clear suspicions on the suspension of the Executive Secretary of National Insurance Health Scheme (NHIS), Usman Yusuf. The lawmakers also said there would be no consideration of budget

The Minister of State for Petroleum resources, ‎Ibe Kachikwu, on Thursday said he cannot confirm if any of the oil workers kidnapped by Boko Haram has been rescued. Kachikwu made the claim while addressing journalists at the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, headquarters in Abuja. he said he only heard, but can’t confirm if anyone

The recent visit of some Governors and APC chieftains to President Muhammadu Buhari in London has started to attract reactions from residents in the city of Jos Those who have visited the president at Abuja House in London were the National Chairman of the APC,Chief John Odigie-Oyegun;Governor of Imo state,Rochs Okorocha and his Kaduna,Kogi and

THE newly appointed plateau state Resident Electoral commissioner who officially resumed duty on july 12th 2017 Haliru Husaini Pai and heads of departments of the independent national electoral commission on Thursday paid a courtesy visit to the management of jay101.9fm. The commissioner stated that the visit is to forge a stronger cordial partnership between the

Indications have emerged that the recent appointment of management committee chairman and their secretaries as well as part-time councilors by Governor Simon Lalong for the seventeen Local Government Areas of Plateau state is threatening the fragile peace in the State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress. Correspondent James Abraham reports that since last week when

  The National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has proposed that the party’s Board of Trustees should take over the leadership of the party anytime it has leadership crisis. This was contained in the proposal for the constitutional amendment submitted to members of the party by the Chairman of its caretaker committee,  Ahmed