The Federal Government might have shortlisted four national commissioners to take over from Prof. Attahiru Jega as the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission.
SUNDAY PUNCH reliably learnt that Jega might be asked to hand over to one of the commissioners in INEC and also proceed on a three-month terminal leave.
During a presidential media chat on February 11, President Goodluck Jonathan had reassured Nigerians that he had no plan to remove the INEC chairman from office. The President’s reassurance came at a time when speculation was rife that government had perfected plans to remove Jega. But some stakeholders who spoke after the interview had dismissed the President’s reassurances as needless, adding that the laws of the land do not confer on the president powers to remove the INEC chairman.peaking at a press conference on Friday, the Supervising Minister of Information, Mr. Edem Duke, had also said the President had no plan to sack Jega.
If the managers of the Nigerian economy were to be sincere with the nation, they will agree that there is something basically wrong with the continued fall in the value of the Naira. Even when our so celebrated foreign reserve stood at $60billion and an import demand cover of about 20 months, the Naira exchange rate never firmed up. Rather, the Naira was on a slide against other currencies; a situation which negates all known economic principles.
Three young ladies lost their lives on Thursday along Lagos-Benin highway after their bus was hit by a vehicle carrying the operatives of Nigerian Customs Service in a hot chase.
A South African woman has appeared in court over the kidnapping of a baby in Cape Town hospital 17 years ago. The girl's biological parents, Celeste and Morne Nurse, were reunited with her after she was enrolled in the same school as her sister. After seeing the pair's likeness, the biological family invited the girl for coffee and then contacted police. DNA tests have confirmed the identity of the girl, who has been placed in the care of social workers.
A 20-YEAR-OLD lady, together with her boyfriend, has been arrested by the Sakumono district Ghana.Police in connection with a series of car robberies that had been occurring in Sakumono and its environs.
Ma pops might just have super vision he found this in his food yesterday night(Nepa that use generator of course didn't give us light and we only put on the gen. by 9) apparently the fish that my mom bought still had the fish hook that silenced it in it and it also escaped my mom's extensive washing
I was surfing through the web when i came accross these 2 pictures and i can't help laughing after seeing the both...... please, which of the arrests looks more matured .
The kind of things you hear and see everyday. So here's what happened. Two bus conductors fought each other and one of them broke the others head with a pavement stone. This happened at Navy Town, Alakija, Satellite Town.
These were transported through Lagos, a day before yesterday. Haven't had the time to reduce the size and upload them. 
Popular Nollywood actress, the gorgeous and wealthy Genevieve Nnaji gets a new house in Accra, Ghana. Nollywood actress, Genevieve Nnaji is one of the most respected and successful actress in the Nigerian movie industry is reported to have acquired a mansion in Ghana.
Will you accept this cake as a gift
I wonder why they are captured and not killed! Please eliminate all of them no need of trials they should all die
Masked gunmen in Kogi State kidnapped an American woman doing missionary work, with ransom the suspected motive for the attack, police told AFP Tuesday.
The running battle between Nigeria’s World Boxing Federation, WBF, cruiserweight boxing champion, Bashiru Lawrence Ali, a.k.a. Bash Ali (OON) and the Managing Director of NEXIM Bank, Robert Orya has landed the Edo State-born pugilist in Kuje Prison in Abuja.
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency on Sunday gave the All Progressives Congress 72 hours to retract some alleged malicious statements made by the party against the agency.
Chief Collins Adikoko, a Deputy Paramount Ruler in Ikeinghenbiri, a coastal settlement in the creeks of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, has been abducted by gunmen.
News that has been making rounds say that Hanks Anuku is supposedly HIV positive and that he knowingly infected his wife as well.
A group of women from the Rido community in Kaduna State, took to the streets on Wednesday, February 19, 2015 to publicly complain about their husband’s sexual weakness, asking that they start performing their matrimonial duties or face mass divorce.
Nigerian soldiers are using all possible means to get rid of Boko Haram insurgents.
We all agree that nothing beats the sensation you get when you down a bottle of cold water or soda when you are hot. That chilling and refreshing sensation could akin to seeing a river in a desert.
Were it from someone else I would have given reasons why it will be impossible for an atm machine to dispense counterfeit naira notes. But an atm machine in Omoku Rivers State after series of withdraws yesterday 19/2/15 dispensed a counterfeit #1000 note. It was a shocker
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday said despite the various challenges facing the country, Nigeria’s situation was not that bad.
A total of 158 Women and children abducted by Boko Haram insurgents from Katarko village in Yobe have been reunited with their families in Damaturu, Yobe. The victims were released by the sect members after three weeks of captivity. Alhaji Ahmed Goniri, the state Commissioner for Justice and Chairman of the State Committee on Rehabilitation of Victims of Insurgency, said this while addressing newsmen in Damaturu on Thursday.