Emeakayi Regains Freedom, The Kidnapped Anambra PDP Chairman

The controversy surrounding the alleged kidnap of Anambra State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Ken Emeakayi finally came to a close yesterday as his abductors released him after two days of incarceration.
His freedom, it was learnt, did not come without the payment of an undisclosed ransom fee.
Emeakayi, who was freed on Tuesday night while narrating his ordeal, said that

Explosion Rocks Buildings Near NNPC Abuja

An explosion has rocked several buildings across from the offices of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC building in Abuja just minutes ago.
The cause of the explosion is yet to be ascertained.
Sources say the explosion came from the

OJB Jezreel To Return From India On Saturday

Ace producer, OJB is one of the happiest men on earth now as his camp has told us that the singer/producer would be flying into the country this saturday after completing a successful kidney transplant in India.
OJB is set to return home and pick up his life from where he left it.
Sources also tell us that OJB even had enough money left to get his house refurnished.

Osun education policy not against any religion – Aregbesola

Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola

Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has again said that the reclassification of schools by his administration is not aimed at obliterating the Christian heritage or the legacies of any other group.

The governor said this in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, on Wednesday at the opening of the 23rd state congress of the All Nigeria Confederation of Principals of Secondary Schools.

Aregbesola has been under attacks, especially from the

Sack threat: We are resolute in our stand – ASUU

Despite the ultimatum given by the Federal Government to the striking university lecturers to call off the strike or face the risk of being sacked, the lecturers have remained resolute in their stand, saying they would only shift ground when government does the right thing.
Recall that the Federal Government, through the Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, a week ago, ordered the striking lecturers to resume work on or before December 4, or face the

Patience Jonathan: I died for seven days in the hosiptal

President Goodluck Jonathan

Speculations were rife on Wednesday that the trip of  President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience, to Germany which the Presidency described as "a private visit" might be on health grounds.

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, had on Tuesday issued a statement indicating that Jonathan would leave Abuja for Germany en-route to Paris, France to participate in

APC, CNPP, ACF, others condemn tenure elongation proposal

Outrage, yesterday, greeted the proposal for a single term for the president and governors by the Deputy Senate President, Chief Ike Ekweremadu, describing it as another form of tenure elongation.
Among those that spoke against the proposal were All Progressives Congress, APC; Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF; Afenifere; Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP; former Minister of