In a swift response to bashing he got on the social media for his prompt reaction to the Brussels twin terror attacks on Tuesday, President Muhammadu Buhari has said the killing of a youth corps member and others during the Rivers State rerun elections on Saturday are “barbaric and unacceptable”. Read More…

The Nigerian Senate has passed the 2016 Federal budget today after months of confusion and delays. It will be recalled that allegations were made against President Buhari and his Special Adviser for National Assembly Matters (Senate) Ita Enang that they conspired to steal the budget document from the Senate following the discovery of embarrassing appropriations. Read More…

The Lagos State Police Command has begun investigation into an alleged case of sexual abuse against a biology teacher of Queen’s College, Mr. Owoseni Osifala. Read More…

The National Universities Commission has said only 400,000 out of the 1.5 million candidates that  sit  the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination yearly  gain admission to Nigerian universities, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. Read More…

Cyril Dum Wite, Special Adviser to Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Special Projects, was arrested by soldiers in Khana during the state legislative rerun election, last Saturday, for allegedly being in possession of military uniforms and a large money. Read More…

The House of Representatives yesterday, said that the embattled MTN Nigeria, was underfined by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, disclosing that the actual fine stood at N3, 120, 000, 200, 000.00trillion and not N1, 040, 000, 000. 00 as made to believe all along. Read More…

Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose’s dream of building an airport has suffered a setback as displaced land owners and plantation farmers have secured a major court victory. Read More…

The Federal Government, yesterday, said that it would commence the clean up of oil spills in the Niger Delta region starting from Ogoni land within the next three weeks. Read More…

Edo State Governor, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, has condemned calls for the sacking of the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, describing those behind the calls as “Facebook manipulators and palm wine drinkers.” Read More…

The House of Representatives yesterday honoured Ayodele Dada for his outstanding academic performance. Read More…

Five weeks after he was seized from his residence in Otuoke, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa  State, Chief Inegite Nitabai, ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s uncle was Tuesday freed by his abductors. Read More…

Following the continued absence of Government Ekpemupolo (aka Tompolo), the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday arraigned the former Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NISAMA), Patrick Akpobolokemi, and eight others over a N35 billion fraud. Read More…

The Police Service Commission has approved the promotion of 156 police officers including Kano State  Commissioner of Police Musa Mohammed,  who was elevated to the rank of  Assistant Inspector-General of Police. Read More…

Federal Government through the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has filed a two-count charge of criminal conspiracy and fraudulent acquisition of property against former presidential adviser on Niger Delta Affairs to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, and one of his aides, Lawrence Pepple. Read More…

Kogi StateHouse of Assembly sat and adjourned till tomorrow but failed to hold plenary session as members present could not form a quorum for normal legislative business. The ‘de facto’ speaker, Alhaji Umar Imam, who presided, said it is against the rules of the House to hold plenary sitting when the number of members present did not form the quorum for normal session. Read More…

The Department of State Services, DSS, Tuesday evening released the Ekiti lawmaker, Afolabi Akanni, who has been in its detention. Read More…

Justice Abdukadir Abdu-Kafarati of a Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday withdrew from the case filed by Senate President Bukola Saraki seeking an order to stop his trial for false asset declaration before the Code of Conduct Tribunal. Read More…

The Federal Government on Tuesday in Abuja vowed that the killers of the National Youth Service Corps member, Samuel Okonta, would be fished out and punished. Okonta was killed during the Rivers election rerun last Saturday. Read More…

After weeks of delay, both chambers of the National Assembly received  a report on the 2016 budget on Tuesday from the Senate and the House of Representatives Joint Committee on Appropriation. Read More…

The Federal Government has set up a presidential committee to investigate high-profile corruption cases allegedly compromised by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Read More…

WAS a pupil sexually assaulted by a teacher at Queen’s College, Yaba, Lagos Mainland? Read More…

The Niger Delta Development Commission has denied claims in some quarters that operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission embarked on a mass arrest of directors in the interventionist agency. Read More…

A Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere has dismissed an application by a former Director -General of the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Patrick Akpobolokemi, challenging its jurisdiction to entertain his trial. Read More…

Some of Africa’s leaders are responsible for instability on the continent because they failed to manage diversity in their societies, a former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has said. Read More…