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Report says that Channels TV anchorman, Sulaiman Aledeh has quit his job. But the reason why he left the organization he had worked for eight years is less savory than Aledeh openly admitted. According to SR findings, the relationship between the talented journalist and the Chairman/CEO of Channels TV, John Momoh, went sour a few months before he finally dropped his resignation paper. Sources within the organization said Momoh was unhappy with Aledeh over an undisclosed issue, and therefore “punished him” by cutting his salary and later removing him from Sunrise Daily.  A source told SR, “ Aledeh was punished for whatever offense, and he gladly resigned because the ridicule was too much .”     Aledeh in a previous interview said he quit his job because it was time to move on.  “Almost eight years, I needed greater challenges and not routine that was getting boring for me.” But in one of his video posts on Youtube  on Thu...

A National Assembly Clerk, Mohammed Shuaibu on Monday   slumped and died at the National Assembly complex, Abuja. Late Shuaibu who hails from Zaria, Kaduna State reportedly slumped at about 12 noon  while walking on a staircase and was rushed to the National Assembly clinic where he was later confirmed dead by the doctors. His remains have been taken to his hometown for burial. He was until his death, the clerk of the House Committee on Agricultural Production and Services. According to the chairman of the committee, Rep Mohammed Tahir Monguno (APC, Borno), the clerk returned to Abuja from Zaria  on Sunday  ahead of a meeting of the committee but died few minutes before the meeting.  Monguno said Shuaibu was a hard working person and was deployed to the committee about a year ago. What is in the National Assembly, causing the slum and die incidents?

A Muslim legal practitioner based in Abuja, Danladi Umar has come to the defence of Apostle Johnson Suleman. He faulted the media trial of the General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries. Danladi Umar on Sunday, March 13 faulted the allegation by Stephanie Otobo, that she had an amorous relationship with Apostle Johnson Suleman. Umar said Otobo's demand for the sum of N500 million could be a voyage to reaping where she did not sow. He also faulted what he described as the media trial of the cleric and wondered what it was meant to achieve. According to him, the claim of a purported amorous relationship including a supposed proposal by the cleric to marry Otobo and further clarification of introduction ceremony purportedly at the headquarters of the church in Auchi, Edo state, were laced with unbelief. Umar told journalists that the allegations were against the claims by Otobo's lawyer, Festus Keyamo, that Apostle Suleman took drinks to her parents and k...

A coalition of four major militant groups in the Niger Delta has told the Acting-President, Yemi Osinbajo, that his fact-finding visit to the region can only be meaningful when he directly hears from the agitators or their representatives. The militants, under the aegis of Niger Delta Watchdogs, Niger Delta Volunteers, Niger Delta Strike Force and Niger Delta Warriors, made this known in a statement jointly signed and issued to the media in Port-Harcourt. The group also reiterated their threat to attack South African investments in the country at the end of the 30-day ultimatum to them to vacate the country, insisting that the recent tour of the region by acting President Osinbajo was hijacked by the political class. They claimed that they were shut out from various interactions the acting President had with stakeholders during the visit, stressing that it simply implied that the acting President had not been properly briefed on core issues at the root of militancy in ...

President Muhammadu Buhari is currently in a closed-door meeting with his wife, Aisha Buhari, Vice-President, Yemi Osinabjo, All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftains, and senior members of his cabinet. Sources at the State House said the meeting is taking place in the First Lady’s conference room at the Aso Rock Villa. Before the closed-door meeting commenced, journalists were barred from going close to Buhari to ask him questions. The President will likely address the nation after the meeting. President Buhari had arrived Nigeria earlier Friday morning,    after which a helicopter conveyed him from the Kaduna Airport to the helipad inside the Presidential Villa at 8.42am He was received by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo; Zamfara State Governor, Abdulaziz Yari; Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Muhammad Bello; Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali; National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno; Director-General of the Department of State Services, Law...

President Muhammadu Buhari arrived Nigeria today 10th of March 2017 after 51 days of medical vacation abroad. Buhari touched down at the new Kaduna International Airport at the wee hours of Friday, amid tight security. Presidency sources said the President arrived at about 4 a.m. Just yesterday, Buhari’s aide on media and publicity, Femi Adesina announced that the president, who left the shores of the country on January 19, 2017 for a vacation, during which he had routine medical check-ups, would return today, Friday. Adesina had in a statement forwarded to DAILY POST said the President Buhari expressed appreciation to teeming Nigerians from across the country, and beyond, who had prayed fervently for him, and also sent their good wishes. Buhari had on two occasions  extended his vacation  ‎on the ground that the doctors needed him to have a longer rest.

Justice Ishaq Bello of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court has delivered judgment in the alleged extra judicial killing of six spare parts traders at Apo area of Abuja by six police officers in 2005. Delivering his judgement, Justice Bello sentenced two of the defendants to death and discharged the other three for lack of sufficient evidence since one of them has been at large. The officers are Danjuma Ibrahim, Othman Abdulsalami (now at large), Nicholas Zakaria, Ezekiel Acheneje, Baba Emmanuel and Sadiq Salami. The Attorney General of the Federation in 2005 charged the six police officers to court for the alleged crime. They were arraigned on a nine count charge of conspiracy and culpable homicide, which contravened the provisions of Sections 97 and 221 (a) of the Penal Code Law. The traders allegedly killed by the officers: are Ifeanyi Ozor, Chinedu Meniru, Isaac Ekene, Paulinus Ogbonna, Anthony Nwodike and Augustina Arebun.