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(Nigeria) Governor of Edo State, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, has sacked Mr Abdul Oroh from his appointment as Commissioner for Commerce and Industry in the state, citing public interest as the reason for his action.

(Nigeria) Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayo Fayose, on Monday said the National Working Committee, NWC of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was dissolved to save the party.

(Nigeria) The Nigerian Army on Monday confirmed the killing of Boko Haram’s Chief bomb maker by his colleagues in one of their camps in the Sambisa forest.

(Nigeria) The Federal Government needs   $166 billion in the next five years to meet the country's energy and transport infrastructure needs, the Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, said.

(Nigeria) Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has stressed the need for men to support women in their quest to participate in active politics and occupy leadership positions.

Rivers State governor, Mr Nyesom   Wike and the Chief of Army Staff ,Lt General Tukur Buratai exchanging greetings after the visit of the Military High Command to Government House, Port Harcourt on Monday. (Nigeria) Rivers State   Governor,   Mr Nyesom   Wike has declared   that   nobody   will be shielded from    the military   operations   against militants sabotaging   the   nation’s   economy.

(Nigeria) A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Monday, adjourned till   May 25 for ruling Olisa Metuh, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP spokesman, request for his international passport to travel to United Kingdom for medical treatment.

(Nigeria) Ekiti State governor, Mr Ayo Fayose, on Monday announced a ban on cattle-rearing and grazing in the state.

(Nigeria) An Abuja High Court has overruled the Federal Government in its decision to confine the detained former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col.   Sambo Dasuki (retd) to the premises of the Department of the State Security,   DSS, to access and brief his lawyer in the on-going trial of criminal charges on corruption brought against him.

(Nigeria) Former Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for Economy under the former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has asked a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, to set aside its judgment, ordering her to “provide information on the spending of the alleged missing N30 trillion which represents some accruable income to the Federal Government during the last four years of the administration of Jonathan.”

(Nigeria) President Muhammadu Buhari has cancelled the planned working visit to Lagos State slated to start on Monday, following an ear infection.

(Nigeria) Former militants in Niger Delta, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, said on Sunday they would not resume violence and distanced themselves from a new rebel group that has claimed recent attacks on pipelines and facilities.

(Nigeria) The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, on Sunday, called off its nationwide strike started to protest Federal Government’s hike in fuel price from N86.50 to N145.

(Nigeria) Armed security operatives from the Nigeria Police Force on Sunday blocked the entrance to the premises of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Secretariat in Abuja.

(Nigeria) Former Head of Media and Communication in the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to look beyond the Niger Delta if he was to end the renewed attack on oil and gas pipelines in the region by the Niger Delta Avengers.

(Nigeria) Founder, United Progressives Party, UPP, Chief Chekwas Okorie, has urged President Muhammad Buhari to release detained Nnamdi Kanu, Director Radio Biafra, and embrace to dialogue with the aggrieved members of Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB and other affiliate groups demanding for Biafra secession.

(Nigeria) The Chairman of the 2016 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Convention Planning Committee and Rivers State governor, Mr Nyesom Wike has explained that the party had to let Former Acting National Chairman, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff go because   his leadership   was destabilising   the   party.

(Nigeria) The Lagos State Government has advised residents on traffic diversions in parts of the state as President Muhammadu Buhari begins a two-today working visit to the state on Monday.

(Nigeria) Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State on Sunday urged the people of Oke-Ako to remain calm as security agents try to fish out those who killed two persons in the community on Friday.

Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, National Chairman, All Progressives Congress, APC; Senator Domingo Obende, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, Minister of State for Petroleum and Governor Adams Oshiomhole at a special thanksgiving to conclude a 7-day programme of Rock of Ages Christian Assembly International (RACAi) in Benin City, on Sunday.   (Nigeria) Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has explained why he stood with the Federal Government on the new price of petrol, saying the fundamentals and economic indices are different from what they were a few years ago and it is the difficult pain Nigerians must undergo before reaping the gains.

(Nigeria) Convicted former Director General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Temisan Omatseye, has appealed the five years jail term slammed on him by Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos.

(Nigeria) Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State has decried the abuse of Local Government Joint Account by some governors, saying he does not interfere with funds meant for local governments in the state.

(Nigeria) A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the Federal Government to “provide information on the spending of the alleged missing N30 trillion which represents some accruable income to the Federal Government during the last four years of the Administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.”

(Nigeria) Oyo State Government has thrown its weight behind the Federal Government’s decision to deregulate fuel pump price, just as it warned public servants bent on participating in the ongoing industrial action to be ready to pay the price of ‘no work, no pay.’

(Nigeria) Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff, the National Chairman of  Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has announced the suspension of its National Convention, citing numerous court cases as the reason the decision. Sheriff, who announced this at a news conference in Port Harcourt on Saturday, said as a law abiding party it suspended the convention until all court cases were resolved. ``Members of the National Working Committee and I have been working since morning. We are confronted with a lot of challenges. ``The challenges are court cases and taking into account the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, not to supervise the election into the office of Chairman, Secretary and Auditor. ``Based on the order of the court and on the account that our party is responsible and law abiding with high respect to the judiciary and courts, we do hereby state and put off the National Convention,” he said. Sheriff said the convention would be held when all court cases were resol

(Nigeria) A prominent politician in Borno State Statd and governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic, PDP, in the 2015 general election, Alhaji Gambo Lawal, has expressed confidence that the party will resolve all issues currently tearing its house apart and become stronger. Speaking in an interview, Lawal, who is in Port-Harcourt, Rivers Statd as a delegate from Borno State for the national convention of the PDP holding today (Saturday) said he was not too worried about the crisis rocking the party. “What I am saying is that all these factions you see today; this is not the first time PDP had factions, right from 1999 till date that we are in the party. But all the same we have always come together. As a family, even two brothers can have differences from time to time. So, this is what is happening. "But I believe that this issue will be settled very soon and PDP will become a viable and strong opposition party as it is supposed to be. PDP will become stronger and we wil

(Nigeria) The Most Rev. Felix Ajakaye, the Bishop of Ekiti Catholic Diocese, has called for the release of two Reverend Sisters and a Reverend Father who were kidnapped while on official assignment. Ajakaye, in a statement in Abuja on Saturday, said that Rev. Fr. John Adeyi, the Vicar-General of Catholic Diocese of Otukpo, had been in captivity since Sunday, April 24. The bishop said that two Sisters of St Louis, Rev. Sr. Perpetua Apo and Rev. Sr. Bukola Familade, and their driver, Mr Zwugwa Zibai, were also kidnapped on Thursday, May 12. ``For over three weeks, Rev. Fr. John Adeyi, the Vicar-General of Catholic Diocese of Otukpo, has been in captivity. According to the report, the humble Parish Priest of St Bernard Catholic Church, Okpoka, Okpokwu Local Government Area, Benue State, was kidnapped on a highway. ``He was returning from an outstation of the parish, where he had gone to celebrate the Holy Eucharist (Mass). He is the first Catholic priest from Otukpa,’’ he said. Ajaka

(Nigeria) Mrs Ubong Assam, the wife of the traditional ruler of Esit Eket in Akwa Ibom, was delivered of a baby girl on Friday, May 13, while in custody of her kidnappers. A family source, who pleaded anonymity, said in Esit Eket, Esit Eket Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom, on Saturday that the monarch’s wife gave birth to the baby in an unknown hideout of her abductors The kidnappers abducted the traditional ruler’s wife and her four children in the Akpautong neighbourhood of Esit Eket on April 29. The source said that the kidnappers quickly released the woman and her four children due to the birth of the baby in their den. Reacting to the development, the Police Public Relations Officer in Akwa Ibom, Cordelia Nwawe, said that the command expressed appreciation to God for the safe delivery of the monarch’s wife. She, nonetheless, said that the command had yet to receive any information about the release of the kidnapped woman and her four children. It was however, gathered tha

(Nigeria)The Chairman  of  the  Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  National Convention Planning Committee and Rivers State governor, Mr Nyesom Wike  has declared that the  2016 convention  will go on Saturday  as scheduled.  He said  though there are two conflicting  court orders on the  conduct of  the National Convention,  lawyers of the party have filed stay of execution  processes and appealed both orders, hence the party has not disobeyed any subsisting  order. He noted that under legal procedures,  once a court order  is timeously  challenged, an affected  party cannot  said to have disobeyed any order. Addressing newsmen  at the Government House,  Port Harcourt on Friday,  Governor Wike  said  that  tomorrow's  national  convention  in the  Garden City is the  only one recognised  by law, with all the necessary  legal steps obsessed.  He said the parallel  convention  being talked about  has no place in the party structure  as it has no connection  to the legally constitute

(Nigeria) Oil marketers on Friday in Abuja called on the Federal Government to assist them in making foreign exchange available for the importation of petroluem products. The marketers, under the umbrella of the Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria, DPPMAN, made the plea during a meeting with the Minister of Finance held at the headquarters of the ministry. The meeting, chaired by the minister, was attended by Chief Executive Officers of 46 major oil companies in the country. It was held to discuss salient issues affecting the downstream sector of the petroleum industry. The Chairman of DAPPMAN, Mr Dapo Abiodun, told the minister that members of the association were currently having a tough time converting some of the Naira payments made by the government to dollars. He said their inability to convert these payments from the Federal Government from Naira to dollar was making it difficult for them to meet their obligations to their foreign partners. He sai

(Nigeria) The Lagos State Government on Friday said that it inspected 1,023,812 vehicles and impounded 50,472 of them during the safety and enforcement inspections between May 2015 and May 5, 2016. Dr Dayo Mobereola, the Commissioner for Transportation disclosed this at the 2016 Ministerial briefing by the ministry at Ikeja. Mobereola said no fewer than 65, 757 drivers were arrested for violation of traffic offences, 11, 797 of the inspected vehicles did not have Hackney Permits, Vehicle Licences, Insurance and Road Worthiness Certificates during the period under review. He added that 13, 100 drivers did not have the Drivers' Licence; 12,882 vehicles were not road worthy, while 464 vehicles were unpainted, with unpleasant inscriptions on their vehicles. The commissioner said that 11, 067 vehicles had fake documents, 14, 050 drivers' flouted the Lagos State Drivers’ Institute Law, 2397 drivers were found violating the vehicle accreditation law. He said, "Transportation

(Nigeria) The Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Dayo Mobereola, said that no fewer than 100 officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, were dismissed in the last one year. Mobereola said this while responding to questions from journalists at the ongoing annual ministerial briefing holding in Ikeja to mark one year of Gov. Akinwumi Ambode’s assumption of office. The commissioner said that the officials were dismissed for various unpardonable offences bordering on unethical conducts. "Up to 100 LASTMA staff members have been dismissed while many were demoted," he said. Mobereola, however, said that the state government had trained and retrained several LASTMA officials for effective service delivery. He advised LASTMA officials to carry out their duties within the law and shun every tendency to extort money from motorists in the state.

(Nigeria) A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Friday asked parties  in a suit by three members of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, seeking to halt it's National convention to maintain status quo. The first suit by Kamal Olorunnojie and Mr jide Ladeinde, suing for themselves and on behalf of Lagos State Executive Committee of PDP, has as respondents Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, PDP, Alhaji Amodu Sheriff and Prof. Wale Ladipupo. A second suit by Alhaji Fatai Adewale Adeyemi also has  INEC and PDP as defendants. The plaintiffs are seeking for an order directing the defendants to accept and accord recognition to the plaintiffs and all officers of the Lagos State Executive Committee listed in the result sheets exhibited in the affidavit in support of the originating summons. The said officers were said to have emerged from the Ward, Local Government and states congresses conducted in Lagos State on April 30, May 5 and May 10, by the Senator Joel ikenya led con

(Nigeria) A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Friday, convicted and sentenced former Director General of Director-General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Raymond Omatseye to a term of five years imprisonment over N1.5 billion contract fraud. Omatseye was prosecuted by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a 27 count charge of bid rigging and contract splitting. Prosecuting team was led by Chief Godwin Obla,  SAN,  while Mr Edoka Oneyeke appeared for the convict. In her judgment on Friday, trial judge, Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia found Omatseye guilty of 24 out of the 27 counts of the charge preferred against him by the EFCC. The court, however, discharged and acquitted Omatseye  of 3 out of the 27 counts bordering on bid rigging. The court found his guilty of the offence of awarding contracts above stipulated threshold, and accordingly convicted him on counts 1 to 20,24,25,26, and 27. She, however, discharged and acquitted him on

(Nigeria) The acting  National Chairman  of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff has assured that the party will embark  on an aggressive reconciliation process after the convention  to ensure  that  every interest group  is carried  along. He spoke with journalists  after he was screened at the Rivers State  PDP  Secretariat on Friday .  The Screening Committee had Emmanuel  Aguma, SAN,  Rivers State Attorney-General as chairman with former Speaker of  the House of Representatives,  Emeka Ihedioha  as a prominent  member   of the committee. The committee  also screened the Deputy National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus.  Senator  Modu Sheriff said: "PDP  is the only party belongs to Nigerians and  owned by  Nigerians.  There is no sole owner of PDP.  PDP  is for you, PDP  is  for our  brothers in  the  village, PDP  is  for the  elder in Abuja,  PDP  is  for  everybody. Therefore,  we will carry  everyone  along". He added: "The way forward  is fo

(Nigeria) The Rivers State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said that the confirmed arrest of the son of the state Deputy Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr. Peter Odike, by the Nigerian Army was commendable and goes further to vindicate the PDP’s position that leaders of the opposition party in the state, the APC, cannot deny their link and sponsorship of violence and criminality in the State. The PDP said that the arrest of Mr. Odike’s son did not come to the party as a shocker, and that his reported confession to the crimes would make it easier and quicker for the process of investigation and prosecution by the Army and the relevant security authorities to be concluded. The party commended the courage and decision of the suspect in confirming that he was actively being supported by his father, Peter Odike, the APC Rivers Deputy Chairman, describing the action of the APC leader as unpatriotic, shameful, wicked and serious embarrassment to the state. The PD

(Nigeria) President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Ayuba Wabba in Abuja on Thursday, said it was ready to negotiate with the Federal Government.

(Nigeria) The Army Spokesperson, Colonel Usman Kukasheka on Thursday,   confirmed the rescue of another Chibok girl.

(Nigeria) Wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Mrs Aisha Buahri, on Thursday in Abuja received the rescued Chibok school girl, Amina Ali and her baby Safiya at the Presidential Villa.

(Nigeria) Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc (Transcorp) has instituted N1 billion suit against the Attorney-General of the Federation and six others before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos over alleged unlawful revocation of land/property located at Block 1, Flats 1-6, Rumens Road, Ikoyi, Lagos.

(Nigeria) The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,   has faulted claims of the detained cousin of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr Azibaola Robert that he was being pressurised by the agency to implicate the   former president   in the alleged diversion of $40 million.

(Nigeria)   National Working Committee, NWC of All Progressives Congress, APC, led by the party’s National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun on Thursday met with the party’s state executives and a high-level federal government delegation led by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Engr   Babachir   Lawal on the new petroleum products supply and pricing framework introduced by the federal government.

(Nigeria) The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Mr Leo Ogor (Delta-PDP) said passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) by the National Assembly would instil transparency in the nation's oil sector operations.

(Nigeria) A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Thursday, fixed June 17, to hear the suit filed by a former Niger Delta militant, Government Ekpemulopo, alias Tompolo, seeking to enforce his right.

(Nigeria) There was a mild drama on Thursday, at the Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State over the suit by 18 aggrieved ex-militant youths against the Chairman of the Amnesty Implementation Committee, Brig. Gen. Paul Boroh (retd), over their non-inclusion in the ongoing amnesty programme for the Niger Delta region.

(Nigeria) The first of 219 abducted Chibok schoolgirls to be found after more than two years in Boko Haram captivity was on Thursday to meet Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari, amid hopes more girls can be freed.

South Africa's MTN Group said on Thursday that it had revised its capital spending in its home market up by 50 per cent to 12 billion rand ($756 million) in 2016.

(Nigeria) Rivers State governor, Mr Nyesom Wike has called   for   sustained efforts to diversify   the   country’s economy following    dwindling   earnings   from   oil.

(Nigeria) A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja was on Thursday, told that no weapons was found in the Guest House of Col Sambo Dasuki (retd), former National Security Adviser, NSA, when it was searched by the operative of the Department of State Security, DSS last year.

(Nigeria) The ECOWAS Court in Abuja was Thursday,   that the security details, including soldiers attached to the former National Security Adviser,   Col Sambo Dasuki (retd), had not been withdrawn by the Federal Government when his Asokoro Residence in Abuja was searched over allegations of unlawful possession of arms barely 48 hours after he left office.