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The move made by members of Nasarawa State Assembly to oust Governor Tanko Al-Makura may not be as easy as that of Adamawa’s Murtala Nyako as the state judicial arm are hell bent on being thorough to avoid being used for a hatchet job.

Read more at TODAY: http://www.today.ng/politics/al-makura-impeachment-nasarawa-assembly-faces-obstacles/

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno state has pleaded with President Goodluck Jonathan for assistance to stop the rampaging Boko Haram insurgents.

Read more at TODAY: http://www.today.ng/politics/jonathan-shettima-meet-over-boko-harams-damboa-massacre-chibok-girls/

Popular Lagos lawyer Mr. Femi Falana (SAN) has said that it is illegal for the President to deploy armed forces to maintain law and order during elections.

Read more at TODAY: http://www.today.ng/politics/deploying-soldiers-for-elections-is-illegal-falana/

Senator Felix Ogunwale, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Osun State, at the weekend, ,defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), just as he declared his support for the re-election of Governor Rauf Aregbesola.

Read more at TODAY: http://www.today.ng/politics/osun2014-pdp-chieftain-ogunwale-defects-to-apc/

Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State has lambasted governorship aspirants who he has not endorsed for the 2015 gubernatorial polls in the state, describing them as enemies who betrayed him.

Read more at TODAY: http://www.today.ng/politics/akwaibom2015-akpabio-pronounces-death-on-all-his-opponents/

Following earlier reports that a former Minister of Education and the BringBackOurGirls campaign co-ordinator, Oby Ezekwesili was arrested and released, the Department of State Security has making the arrest.

Read more at TODAY: http://www.today.ng/uncategorized/we-did-not-arrest-ezekwesili-dss/

Nigeria’s  Ambas­sador at Large and former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Mohammed Tukur, has described as laughable

http://www.today.ng/politics/tukur-absolves-presidency-of-complicity-in-nyakos-impeachment/

All Progressives Congress (APC) stakeholders in Kwara State under the aegis of Time for Change Leadership Initiative (TCLI) yesterday urged the former state governor, Senator Bukola Saraki, to accept various calls from well-meaning Nigerians across the nation and contest the 2015 presidential election in the country.

http://www.today.ng/politics/nigeria2015-kwara-apc-stakeholders-urge-saraki-to-contest-presidency/

The grand finale of the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria (MBGN) was held on Friday, 18th July, in Bayelsa State, and 19-year-old Iheoma Nnadi, who represented Akwa Ibom state came out tops as the winner Iheoma Nnadi.

Read more at TODAY: http://www.today.ng/entertainment/19-year-old-iheoma-nnadi-emerges-winner-of-mbgn-2014/

Justin Bieber‘s mother, Pattie Mallette apparently tired of her son’s fans and their need to sexually objectify her son has pleaded with the ‘Beliebers’ to stop with the sexually explicit messages they keep badgering her with about how he makes them Hot via social media.

Read more at RADAR: http://www.radar.ng/celeb/stop-telling-me-my-son-makes-you-Hot-justin-biebers-mother-pleads-with-fans/

Governor Rochas Okorocha has said he won’t run for second term in Imo state unless 1million people in the state gives him N100 each with their voter’s cards.

Read more at TODAY: http://www.today.ng/politics/i-have-told-my-people-that-unless-they-give-me-n100-each-one-million-people-with-their-voters-cards-i-wont-run-rochas-okorocha/

Monaco football club owner, Dmitry Rybolovlev, 47, has been ordered to pay a world record divorce settlement of more than £2.6 billion to his ex-wife.

Read more at RADAR: http://www.radar.ng/gist/owner-of-monaco-football-club-must-pay-2-6b-in-world-record-divorce-settlement/

The National Leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Monday, declared in Benin City, the state capital that it would no longer tolerate the “impunity” and “rascality” perpetrated by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as it undermine the institutions on which Nigeria is built.

Read more at TODAY: http://www.today.ng/politics/well-no-longer-tolerate-the-impunity-and-rascality-perpetrated-by-pdp-apc/

The Delta state police command has said that it has launched an investigation into Friday’s altercation between a member of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mrs. Mariam Ali and the state’s chairman of the ruling party, Chief Peter Nwaoboshi, in Asaba, the state’s capital.

Read more at TODAY: http://www.today.ng/politics/how-i-was-beaten-up-by-delta-pdp-chairman-mariam-ali/

The umbrella association for manufacturers, The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has called for the elimination of multiple taxes, charges and levies emanating from both state and local government agencies across the country.

Read more at TODAY: http://www.today.ng/business/man-calls-for-the-elimination-of-multiple-taxes-levies-in-states/

Senator Ali Ndume representing Borno South Senatorial District at the Nigerian Senate has reportedly been tied with funding the Islamic terror sect, Boko Haram.

Read more at TODAY: http://www.today.ng/news/exposed-how-senator-ndume-funds-boko-haram-buys-400-golf-cars/

After three meetings, the seven-man panel set up by the immediate past acting Chief Judge of Adamawa State, Justice Ambrose Mammadi to investigate allegations of gross misconduct against the Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako and his deputy, Mr. Bala Ngilari, has reportedly indicted the governor but absolved the deputy .

Read more at TODAY: http://www.today.ng/politics/impeachment-saga-panel-indicts-nyako-absolves-ngilari/

Despite criticisms that followed the heavy presence of security men during the Ekiti state governorship elections

Http://www.today.ng/politics/osun2014-fg-plans-massive-security/

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega has pledged that 2015 elections would be better than the 2011 elections, insisting that achieving perfect election was the responsibility of all stakeholders and Nigerians.

http://www.today.ng/politics/2015-will-be-better-than-2011-elections-jega/