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The Board of Trustees (BoT) of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised the National Caretaker Committee of the party to hold the next national convention of the party in Abuja.

Federal government would let Boko Haram choose a non-profit organisation as an intermediary in any talks on the release of about 200 schoolgirls kidnapped from the northeastern village of Chibok in 2014, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Sunday.

When I warned the Nigerian people about what the APC represented and that, if given power, they would be the most reactionary, repressive, vindictive, insensitive, vicious, thin-skinned, paranoid, divisive and, worse of all, incompetent government in the history of Nigeria no-one listened.  

About Six farmers were reportedly killed in Godogodo village of Jemaa local government of Kaduna State on Saturday. The incident is coming two weeks after 11 persons were killed by suspected herdsmen in three villages including Gododogo in an early morning raid.

  Egyptian judoka Islam El Shehaby has been sent home from the Rio Olympics after refusing to shake the hand of Israeli Or Sasson following the end of their bout, the International Olympic Committee said on Monday.

  Ahmad Salkida Ahmad Salkida, the journalist that broadcast the Boko haram video that claimed that military airstrike killed the Chibok girls, has spoken out about the military declaring him wanted .

Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has described Modu Sheriff as a curse to PDP. He made this statement in reaction to a comment credited to a factionalnational chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Ali Modu Sheriff that he sent people to beg the former Borno Governor for claiming that he was a member of Boko Haram.

Nigerian Military dismisses Boko Haram’s claim Of Chibok Girls Killed in Airstrikes. The Defence authorities have described the claim by the Boko Haram that some of the Chibok girls were killed in airstrikes by the Nigerian Air Force as propaganda.

Following the press conference held in Abuja on friday, by the legal team, for the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Worldwide, the Biafra agitator have sacked it’s legal team.

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, in Abuja on Friday said he was willing to enter into negotiation with the Federal Government to secure his release and end the political crisis which has continued to trail his continued incarceration.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday restated his administration’s commitment to the cleanup in Ogoniland when a received a delegation of Ogoni leaders in Abuja.

In the non-scandal that’s apparently rocking the political world, Malia Obama was spotted at Lollapalooza smoking  joint in a vide. An 18-year old NARC named Jerrdin Selwyn ran to the site to say that she saw Malia smoking pot during Bryson Tiller’s set. “I caught Malia smoking pot and I have the pictures to prove it,” Selwyn said. “You could smell the marijuana smoke. I saw some young guy hand her a cigarette and she took at least one hit on it. She had it in her hand for about one minute, then gave it back to him.” See Video:

MONICA MARES was 16 when she gave up her newborn son Caleb Peterson for adoption. She reconnected with him on Facebook when he was 19 years old and they met in person around Christmas last year.

The Federal Government, yesterday, insisted that banks and other financial institutions as well as multinationals must keep existing jobs and desist from sacking their workers, regardless of the current economic downturn. It held that banks and their employees must be ready to operate within the provisions of the Nigerian laws.

  President Muhammadu Buhari has backed House of Representative speaker, Yakubu Dogara, on the budget padding scandal. The Presidency on Tuesday said the  2016 budget, which President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law, was not padded.

Former state chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers state Chief Godwin Ake is dead.

  Barely a month after he was sentenced to six years in jail for murder,Oscar Pistorius has been rushed to hospital after suffering injuries at his prison in South Africa.

Dr. Chris Ngige booed for defending Buhari in Enugu The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, was booed while trying to defend President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointments at a town hall meeting organised by the Federal Government for the South-East in Enugu on Monday.

According to Channels news, fifteen persons are feared dead and several others injured following a clash between herdsmen and farmers in Kodomun village of Adamawa State.

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that there is no court order stopping the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Convention scheduled for August 17, 2016 in Port Harcourt.

Niger Delta militant group, Adaka Boro Avengers, has said it cancelled its planned declaration of a Niger Delta Republic after appeals from Ijaw leaders, including ex-President Goodluck Jonathan.

Reports have it that Kaiama town in Kolokuma/Opokuma local government area of Bayelsa state is locked down.