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Former Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources in Lagos State, Olawale Oluwo, has stated categorically that government in Lagos State starts and ends in the house of the national leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Oluwo, who spoke at Afang Summit, organized by a Lagos-based investment banker, Joseph Edgar, also gave insight […]

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday presided over the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Osinbajo, who chairs the NEC, is the head of Nigeria’s Economic Management team. The meeting comes on the heels of the inauguration of new ministers by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday. The NEC meeting, held monthly, […]

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, (PFN), on Thursday said the embattled Senior Pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, COZA, Biodun Fatoyinbo refused to appear before its panel investigating the rape allegation against him. Celebrity photographer and wife of singer Timi Dakolo, Busola Dakolo had accused Fatoyinbo of raping her 20 years ago in Ilorin, […]

The immediate past Governor of Imo state, Senator Rochas Okorocha has said his successor, Emeka Ihedioha, did not win the election that brought him into office. “Let me be clear, Emeka Ihedioha did not win elections in this state but was crookedly handed the mandate,” Okorocha said during a town hall meeting at his home […]

The Lagos State Police Command Friday dismissed four officers involved in extrajudicial killings in the State. The policemen were identified as Inspector Fabiyi Omomayara, Sergeant Olaniyi Solomon, Sergeant Solomon Sunday and Corporal Aliyu Mukaila attached to Iba Division patrol team. “The Policemen were subjected to internal disciplinary proceedings at the Provost Department. They were tried […]

Suspected Boko Haram insurgents in gun trucks and motorcycles on Wednesday recaptured two Borno council areas, after torching the secretariat complexes and houses in Magumeri and Gubio towns. The insurgents simultaneously attacked the two council headquarters, after performing their evening prayers in mosques with some residents. Magumeri and Gubio, 40 and 88 km north of […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in Abuja inaugurated his new cabinet with majority of the re-appointed members of his first term cabinet retaining their posts. The full cabinet list with portfolios has “Mr. President” from Katsina State as the substantive Minister of Petroleum Resources; while former Bayelsa governor, Timipre Sylva will be the Minister of […]

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Wednesday reserved judgment in the petition filed by candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar challenging the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari in the February 23 presidential election. The chairman of the five man tribunal, Justice Mohammed Garba, reserved judgment to a date that would be communicated […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in Abuja, cautioned new cabinet Ministers against unnecessary altercation while discharging their responsibilities. Buhari, who gave the warning at the inauguration of ministers at the Presidential Villa, stated that they must work in harmony with their fellow ministers. He also charged the ministers not to allow political or ethnic differences […]

Southeast Governors Forum has warned the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, against any other attack on Southeast leaders when they travel abroad. In a statement signed by the chairman of the forum and Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, the governors threatened to ensure his repatriation to Nigeria.   “We […]

Lagos State police have apprehended four of their officers for extrajudicial killings, and have promised to charge them for murder if found culpable. The arrest was sequel to a video that went viral on social media of the four officers, believed to be attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), who engaged in extra-judicially killing […]

The impropriety was simply mind-boggling and inexcusable, but the assault of former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, who was attacked by members of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) in Nuremberg, Germany last Saturday was pathetic, disgraceful and devoid of any perfunctory exaggeration. The video of the incident that went viral on […]