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The police high command yesterday outlawed processions and activities of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) nationwide. Citing the ruling of a Federal High Court, the Inspector-General of Police (IG), Mohammed Adamu, yesterday declared the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) belonging to the Shiite Islamic sect, a terrorist group and enemy of the state.    […]

The crisis triggered by the controversial inauguration of the Edo State House of Assembly degenerated yesterday as the Senate threatened a takeover of the state legislature if the Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, failed to issue a fresh proclamation to convoke the lawmakers by next week. The Senate’s decision, which Obaseki dismissed as unconstitutional and pointedly […]

Revelations emerged yesterday at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) as witnesses called by President Muhammadu Buhari in defence of his victory made startling disclosures on the controversial issue of his academic qualification to contest the February 23 presidential election, which has been enmeshed in controversy since 2015.   The President has always insisted he […]

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has appointed Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch, as Children and Families Minister, as part of his government reshuffle. Badenoch is a British Conservative politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Saffron Walden.   She was born in Wimbledon, London to Nigerian parents. Her childhood was spent in Lagos and the United States. […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has opened his defence against the petition of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and his party, PDP, challenging his victory in the February 23 presidential election. At the resumed hearing Tuesday afternoon, the lead counsel to President Buhari, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), tendered a series of documents […]

President Muhammadu Buhari may swear in his 43 ministerial nominees on Wednesday following their confirmation by the Senate. The upper legislative chamber ended the screening of Buhari’s nominees for ministerial appointments on Tuesday and approved all the 43 sent in by the president.   But the portfolio for each of the nominees is still unknown […]

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of 43 ministerial nominees, a week after the names were submitted to the upper legislative chambers by President Muhammadu Buhari. After the Red Chamber screened the last three nominees at the Committee of the Whole, Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, subjected the names of the ministerial nominees to a […]

The Senate has announced the names of chairmen and vice-chairmen of its 69 standing committees just as it proceeded on its end of session recess. It resumes plenary session on the 24th of September, 2019.  President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, who announced the names Tuesday, disclosed that his main challenger in the contest for […]

The number of Nigerian pilgrims that have died at this year’s Hajj in Saudi Arabia has risen to five, according to the chairman of the Medical Committee of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) Dr. Ibrahim Kana, who confirmed the development Tuesday night in Madinah. The official update given by Dr. Kana followed a […]

  In the spirit of the anti-corruption drive of the Buhari regime and given the way and manner this drive has gone to fumigate the public finance sector of governance, especially at the federal level thereby freeing humongous resources that were hitherto fleeced by operatives of government, there is this wish writ large in the […]

Senator Ahmed Lawan is the Chairman and President of Nigeria’s 9thNational Assembly.  His emergence as Senate President was prefaced by a lot of politicking and brick-bats within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of which he is a member and between members of that party and the opposition parties particularly the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), […]