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President Muhammadu Buhari has challenged Atiku Abubakar, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), candidate to produce and tender his educational certificates, indicating the schools attended by him, with dates; saying he was far more qualified than Atiku and on the contrary, it was Atiku that was not qualified to run for the office. The challenge was […]

The United States government of President Donald Trump will not intervene in any effort to ensure compliance after a court in Washington DC domesticated a September 2017 decision by the London court of arbitration that sentenced the Nigerian government to pay $9 billion to Process & Industrial Development (P&ID); a gas firm established in the […]

 Federal High Court in Kano Thursday sacked former senior special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on National Assembly matters, Kawu Sumaila, as the elected House of Representative member of Sumaila/Takai federal constituency of Kano. Sumaila won the election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in February but the court ordered the Independent […]

Ostensibly as a fallout of the decision to convict and remove the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walters Onnoghen, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a Freedom of Information (FOI) request, giving Dr. Muhammed Isah, Chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) 14 days to urgently provide “information on specific […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday assented to the National Minimum Wage Bill. The law takes immediate effect. Following the presidential assent, the bill has now become an Act of the National Assembly with effect from yesterday, and thus put to rest several months of controversy trailing the proposal. Briefing State House Correspondents after he met […]

The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) has convicted the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, for false declaration of assets and banned him from holding public office for 10 years. The Tribunal presided over by Justice Danladi Umar and two others, declared that Onnoghen falsely declared his asset by hiding five accounts […]

April 12, the day set aside since 2012 as the International Day for Street Children, has come and gone. In our dear country, with its hustles and hassles, the day went largely unnoticed, barely reported and scarcely celebrated. The International Day for Street Children is meant to call attention to the plight of  children without […]

Ahead of his planned dissolution of his entire cabinet next month, President Muhammadu Buhari has asked for a comprehensive “status reports on policies, programmes and projects” from ministers on their ministries, departments and agencies. Buhari gave the order Wednesday as the countdown begins for the end of his first term on May 28, 2019. The […]

The Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property yesterday said it had recovered the sum of $20 million from one of the commercial banks in the country. The money is said to be part of the $232 million unremitted to the Treasury Single Account (TSA) by an unnamed agency. The panel’s Head, […]

An Abuja High Court on Wednesday ordered the arrest of the immediate-past attorney-general of the federation, Mohammed Adoke, a former minister of petroleum resources, Dan Etete, and four others, who were implicated in the Malabu Oil scandal. The warrant was issued by Justice D.Z. Senchi of Jabi Federal High Court, to the Economic and Financial […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has in principle, formally adopted the incumbent House majority leader, Hon Femi Gbajabiamila as its candidate for the position of House Speaker in the 9th National Assembly. APC spokesman, Lanre Issa-Onilu, who posted this information on the party’s website on Tuesday night, also revealed that the Deputy Speaker position has […]

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the recently conducted general elections, Atiku Abubakar, and his party yesterday insisted that the final results, as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), were those transmitted online to INEC’s website (www.inecnigeria.org). In a reply dated April 15 and filed the same day at […]