Former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday said that her former boss, former President Goodluck Jonathan was not interested in saving Nigeria’s huge earnings from oil and other sources between 2011 and 2015. Read More…
Justice Abdukadir Abdu-Kafarati of the Federal High Court in Abuja will today give his ruling on a legal effort by embattled Senate President Bukola Saraki to scuttle his trial for corruption before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT). Read More…
The Divisional Police Officer, DPO, in charge of Ikenne Division area of Ogun State, Patrick Onwu, who beat up a female traffic warden for flagging down his private car at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC filling station, IBB Boulevard, Abeokuta, last week has been demoted. Read More…
The Bayelsa State Police Command, yesterday, cautioned the Governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson, over the refusal by the leadership of the state House of Assembly to swear-in three elected opposition members. Read More…
A bill for an amendment of the Code of Conduct Tribunal and Bureau Act scaled second reading at the Nigerian Senate, Thursday, just 48 hours after it was first read. Read More…
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has written the Chinese government, seeking the stoppage of the $2 billion loan being sought by the Federal Government, Read More…
The publisher of Sahara Reporters has accused Nigeria’s Senate President, Bukola Saraki, for cloning his newspaper and stealing his brand identities to create fake versions of his website. Read More…
Two officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) were on Wednesday evening shot dead by a policeman in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. Read More…
The impasse over the 2016 Budget assumed a rowdy dimension in the House of Representatives with members demanding the resignation of the Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin. Read More…
A taxi driver in his 50s reportedly slumped and died during sex with a middle aged-woman at Lanjorin section of Muritala area, Ilorin on Tuesday night. Read More…
TB Joshua urged his members to pray fervently as to avert the impending mishap. Read More…
Lol. For those who don’t get the joke, Ben Murray-Bruce started the ‘I just want to make common sense’ mantra…Ime used it in an IG post today about president Buhari’s trip to China. Read More…
The senator representing Abia South Senatorial District, Eyinnaya Abaribe, has said the Senate rejected the Gender Equal Opportunities Bill because some lawmakers feared the legislation could give women unfettered freedom to engage in immoral activities. Read More…
Few days after lambasting President Muhammadu Buhari’s trip to China, Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, has also travelled to China to attend the country’s 119th Import and Export Fair, also known as the Canton Fair. Read More…
Nigeria secret police, the Department of State Service on Wednesday announced that it has arrested one Bello Danhajiya, a close associate and presumed second in command to Khalid Al-Barnawi, Read More…
The Occupy Nigeria Season 2 has cancelled the planned protest against President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria that was scheduled to hold in Port Harcourt on Thursday April 14, 2016. Read More…
THe Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Rivers State council, has called for the prosecution of the policemen, who allegedly manhandled and held hostage two journalists during the protest by students of the University of Port Harcourt, on Monday. Read More…
Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Wednesday cautioned against cynicism and hopelessness about the recovery of the 217 Chibok girls abducted by Boko Haram. Read More…
The Presidency on Wednesday faulted a report in the April 12 edition of The Telegraph (London) which accused President Muhammadu Buhari of allegedly using United Kingdom’s aid to persecute his political foes rather to fight Boko Haram. Read More…
Senator Emmanuel Anosike has resigned his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Read More…
President Muhammadu Buhari should not sign the 2016 budget without the inclusion of the N60billion Lagos-Calabar rail project, a federal lawmaker has said. Read More…
Senators from the Southern part of Nigeria have asked President Muhammadu Buhari, to withold his assent on the 2016 budget if the Appropriation Committees of both chambers of the National Assembly refused to include the Calabar – Lagos rail project in the 2016 appropriation bill. Read More…
It was no longer business as usual when a suspected kidnapper met his waterloo this morning in Kaduna, when angry youths gave him baptism of fire and burnt him to ashes. Read More…
THE leadership of the Senate has placed a ‘shut up’ order on its members in apparent move to douse the outrage sparked by the exclusion of the N60 billion Lagos-Calabar Rail Line Project from the N6.06 trillion 2016 budget. Read More…