Politics

Governor Aminu Masari  of Katsina State has declared that kidnapping, banditry and cattle rustling are now to attract the death penalty in a move to check the rising wave of crimes in the state.   Masari signed into law yesterday the state’s revised penal codes on crime and criminality. The signing preceded the …

The out-going governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun says that Gbenga Daniel, his predecessor, handed over ‘a failed state’ to him in 2011.   He alleged that Gbenga Daniel handed over a state that was characterised by poor economy, deplorable infrastructure and insecurity, which prevented investors from investing in the state. …

Britain’s Theresa May announced her resignation as prime minister on Friday morning, drawing her turbulent three-year premiership to an abrupt end. She will step down as Conservative Party leader on June 7. Speaking in Downing Street, May said it had been “the honour of my life” to serve as Britain’s …

Justice A. B. Aliyu of the Federal High Court in Minna, Niger State on Thursday, May 23, 2019, revoked the bail granted to the former Niger State Governor Babangida Aliyu and the former state governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Umar Gado Nasko.   The judge, who …

Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, has raised alarm over an alleged plan by some people to cause crisis in parts of the country and accuse him of being responsible for the skirmishes.   According to him, the plan, being planned by “unscrupulous and anti-democratic elements,” for …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today Thursday, May 23rd, presented its first witness, Hamza Adamu Buwai, as the Commission opened its case in the ongoing trial against the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, and three others, before Justice Jude Okeke of a Federal …

A Mississippi state lawmaker has been accused of drunkenly assaulting his wife because she was taking too long to undress for sex. Republican Rep. Douglas McLeod, 58, was arrested Saturday night and charged with domestic violence-simple assault for the incident. According to the George County Sheriff’s Office incident report obtained …

Wole Soyinka has advised the FG to listen to Obasanjo’s comment on Fulanization and Islamization, even though he is not in good terms with him.  Recall that the former Nigerian President who lamented over how how threats of Boko Haram and Herdsmen were not initially taken serious, linked it all …

The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal has dismissed the suit filed by the Hope Democratic Party (HDP) and its Presidential Candidate, Ambrose Aworu, seeking to stop President Muhammadu Buhari’s inauguration.   In a lead judgment delivered by Justice Joseph Ikyechi, the tribunal dismissed the application for lacking merit. Respondents in the …

Taraba state governor, Darius Ishaku, has said that no state governor can effectively tackle insecurity in his state. According to the governor, any state governor who says he can tackle insecurity is lying.   Speaking at a function in the state capital, Jalingo, yesterday May 22nd, Ishaku said the constitution as …