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  The Federal Government has directed the speakers of the five states Houses of Assembly whose governors were sacked today by a pronouncement of the Supreme Court to take over...

A royal father, Oba Abeche Saiki II, JP, the traditional ruler of Igarra Kingdom, says the palliative measures recently announced by Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State will go a...

  The President of the Kogi State Customary Court, Justice Ibrahim Shaibu, has sworn-in the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in last month’s gubernatorial election, Captain Idris Wada, as...

  Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has congratulated the new Acting Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Dikko Abubakar, on his appointment by President Goodluck Jonathan. In a congratulatory letter...

  Ousted Governor of Bayelsa State, Timi Sylva, has described the Supreme Court judgment that terminated his continued stay as the chief executive of Bayelsa State as a temporary setback...

The Supreme Court has justified its decision to sack five governors who were granted extension of their tenures by the Court of Appeal. The Supreme Court said that Section 180...

  Despite the fact that the Supreme Court is yet to conclude the delivery of the judgment on the five sacked governors over tenure elongation, aides of the Bayelsa State...

 The Supreme Court has set aside the ruling of the Court of Appeal that granted five state governors elongation of their tenures based on the time they were sworn-in again...

  A Nigerian national and a Guyanese woman were on Thursday remanded in prison in Guyana for allegedly conspiring to mail 510 grams of cocaine via the Georgetown Post Office...

  A United Nations report on Thursday suggested that part of the arms being used by the dreaded sect, Boko Haram, may have come from Libya, which is at present...

  The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs has described the activities of Boko Haram as anti-Islamic.   The General Secretary of the NSCIA, Dr. Lateef Adegbite, in a statement...

  Christian victims of the Boko Haram attacks in parts of Borno State have been given N9.75 million by the state government.   Those who benefitted from the government’s gesture...

  The National Democratic Coalition and a former Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, have said only the convocation of a Sovereign National Conference can get the country...

  The Ad Hoc Committee of the House of Representatives probing the management of fuel subsidy has said from calculations, it is obvious the money expended on subsidy in 2011...

  The spokesman of Governor Ibrahim Idris of Kogi State, Audu Adejoh, has confirmed the involvement of his boss in an auto crash as exclusively reported by The Eagle Online....

  A 16kg consignment of cocaine that Mexican drug traffickers recently lost has turned up in an unlikely place - the United Nations in New York.   Police and UN...

  Because her son was killed after being hit by a train as he willingly walked through a subway tunnel after a long night out with his frat buddies, a...

    Governor Ibrahim Idris of Kogi State was this evening involved in an auto crash, The Eagle Online has gathered.   Kogi State Government House sources told The Eagle...

    A German, whose name could not be confirmed as at press time, has been kidnapped in Kano, Kano State.   It was learnt that the German works for...

  The step taken by the Supreme Court of Nigeria to consult and seek the views of some legal luminaries on the very sensitive issue of tenure elongation which was...