The crises rocking the Ogun State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP may be far from being over as dramatist personnel  in the party have started to take themselves to the cleaners  in the public. An indication in this direction took place last  Tuesday between the senator-elect of Ogun East, Buruji Kashamu and the State Presidential campaign Co-ordinator, Prince Segun Seriki at the Nicon Hilton Hotel in Abuja . The two PDP politicians who were reportedly at the hotel for a political meeting threw caution to the wind and engaged each other in violent verbal intercation over President Jonathàn's N700million campaign funds to Ogun state during the last elections and how it was spent. It was further gathered the was a sort of show of shame as the two politicians uttered various unprintable words against each other in the open. Seriki, a former member of the Federal House of Representatives, who confirmed the incident which he described as unfortunate said ...

Lawmakers of the Kebbi State hous e of assembly have served the state governor, Alhaji Saidu Dakingari ,  with an impeachment notice for alleged gross misconduct . The 12 members had on Tuesday claimed to have impeached the Speaker, Mohammed Shalla and deputy, Mohammed Ja’afaru and subsequently installed a former Speaker, Habib Jega, who was impeached in a controversial manner in November 2014, as the new S peaker. They later made available to newsmen on Wednesday a signed notice in which they listed six impeachable offences against the governor. T he offences which they listed against the governo r are: * That Governor Sa’idu Dakingari committed grave violation of the provision of Section 5(1)(a) of the Kebbi State Budget Monitoring and Price Intelligence Bureau Law,2006 in that the Chairman of the Bureau is to be a retired civil servant, but the governor appointed a serving Permanent Secretary/Solicitor General of the State Ministry of jus...

Last-minute appointments at some federal government agencies by the outgoing administration of President Goodluck Jonathan are now creating a stir and generating furore following what insiders describe as acts suggestive of suspicion. Two of the agencies affected, according to investigations are the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), which is under the  Presidency, and the Voice of Nigeria (VON), supervised by the Ministry of Information. Investigations revealed that prominently cited as "stinking" in the administrations impunity is the National Council on Privatisation (NCP), chaired by Vice-President Namadi Sambo which met recently and confirmed six acting directors as directors and also appointed two new ones in circumstances that are now raising dust following flagrant abuse of geopolitical balancing and equity. Equally generating discordant tunes and bad blood within the service, it was learnt, is the appointment of Sampson Worlu as director-general of VON as two un...

More than 500 people have been killed by a massive earthquake of 7.9 magnitude which hit large parts of Nepal on Saturday, according to the Indian government. Major tremors were felt for nearly a minute across large swathes of Northern India including Delhi rendering 14 people dead in Bihar and 40 children  injured after their school was damaged in Bengal's Malda town. This earthquake of magnitude 7.9 was the worst to hit Nepal in 80 years making the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi to urgently convene a high-level with some of the country's ministers and top officials to assess the situation. Meanwhile , police deputy inspector general Kamal Singh Bam has given the number of the dead so far to be 597. Nepal's capital of Kathmandu has been left devastated with roads split open, and homes and iconic landmarks collapsed into rubble. Modi has in the aftermath of the earthquake appointed Union Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy to supervise events after the earthquake in stated bord...

President Goodluck Jonathan.  By Tunde Olowu. The Federal Government has on Wednesday clarified that President Goodluck Jonathan will hand over power to General Muhammad Buhari, Nigeria President elect on 29 May and not 28 May as previously reported. The Minister of Information, Mrs Patricia Akwashiki told journalists after  a meeting of the Federal Executive Council that President Jonathan will remain Nigeria’s President till  May 29,2015. ? Mrs Akwashiki explained that  she was misquoted in the statement attributed to her last week that President Jonathan will hand over power on May 28. Her purported statement as reported by several news media organisations in the country had attracted controversies especially within the circles of members of the  opposition All Progressives Congress, APC. The said handover date earlier announced is said to have almost pitched  the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.)against outgoing Presi...

By Tunde Olowu. President Goodluck Jonathan has announced the immediate sack of Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, the 17th indigenous IGP and appointed Mr Solomon Arase. a Deputy Inspector General to take over in acting capacity. Abba, an experienced officer in criminal investigation, intelligence led policing and crime fighting operations,who hails from Jigawa State has appointed by Jonathan on August 1,2014. A statement by Special Adviser to President Jonathan on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati said Mr Solomon Arase,DIG Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department is to take over from him with immediate effect . The new Acting IGP holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Law, Political Science and Strategic Studies. It is not immediately clear why Mr Suleiman Abba was suddenly fired.barely spending one year in office and at the twilight of the Jonathan led administration having recently lost at a general election expected to grant him a second term in off...

Lovers and notorious consumers of a popular local gin, known as "Ogogoro" have been warned against its consumption for this period in Irele and environs following the death of about 20 persons mysteriously in the town. Dr Dayo Adeyanju,Ondo state Commissioner for Health,gave the warning while briefing reporters on updates about the mysterious disease and government actions to date. Adeyanju said the warning became necessary in view of the notoriety of the people of the southern senatorial zone of the state in the consumption of illicit gin and reports that the deceased victims had prior to their death consumed large quantity of the gin also known as ”404',. He based the government sensitisation and warning on suggestion that the victims may have died as a result of methanol poisoning. The strange disease starts with headache,blindness and leads to death.