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My worries about the several months of delay in passing the 2018 Budget of Consolidation were abated as the Senate finally approved it on Wednesday, 16th May. But my heart turned to jelly as I read the breakdown of the budget. I became fearful, not only because of the fiscal deficit of N1,954,464,993,775 and a […]

*As his nationwide consultations gather speed Former Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) frontline presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakar, on Monday visited Ekiti State for a strategic review meeting with Governor Ayodele Fayose where he also rallied support for Prof. Kolapo Olusola, the PDP governorship candidate in the State in the July 14 Governorship election. […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Nigerians to overcome greed and stop glorifying thieves. Instead, he wants Nigerians to treat the thieves with disdain. The President made the appeal in his Eid-el-Fitr message, just days after a Federal High Court jailed a former state governor and serving senator for abuse of office and theft of public […]

In what appears to be a breakthrough, the Akwa Ibom Police Command says it has arrested 20 suspected cultists in Eket Local Government Area. The Eket Area Commander, ACP Emeka Nwonyi, made the disclosure at an emergency security meeting with stakeholders on Friday in Eket. He said the suspects had been terrorising residents of the […]

Fidelity Bank CEO, Mr. Nnamdi Okonkwo says the bank will catalyze growing opportunities in the Nigerian economy, to deliver good returns to shareholders in 2018. Speaking at the bank’s 30th Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Lagos last week, Okonkwo said the bank would continue to focus on redesigning its systems and processes to enhance service […]

President Muhammadu Buhari Friday in Abuja called on all Nigerians to work towards salvaging the nation from the shackles of past wrongs by sharing in the collective vision for a greater Nigeria and contributing individually to realise the goal. President Buhari, who received FCT residents at the Presidential Villa for the Eid-al-fitr celebration, urged all […]

Gov. Abdul’aziz Yari of Zamfara State said he had dropped his responsibility as Chief Security Officer of the state as he had no control over security machinery in the state. Speaking to newsmen in Talata-Mafara on Friday, Yari said that his decision stemmed from the seeming helplessness of the state government and the people over […]

Justice Mojisola Olatoregun of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Thursday, June 14, 2018 ordered an interim forfeiture of a sum of $75,000 recovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, from one Kupoluyi Oluleke, to the Federal Government. The judge gave the order, following an ex parte application filed by […]

Justice Must Prevail Party (JMPP) on Thursday said if elected into power in 2019, it would construct a wall around Nigeria and change the name of the country and the currency. Acting National Chairman of the Party, Dr Olusegun Ijagbemi, revealed at a news conference in Abuja. He said that the need to change the […]

The Secretary of All Progressives Congress (APC) National Convention Committee, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, has said that the ruling party was not planning to postpone its convention scheduled to hold on June 23, 2018. Ndoma-Egba stated this while reacting to a media report suggesting that the APC might postpone the date of the exercise due to […]

The Federal Government will continue to execute projects across the country which demonstrates the sincerity of purpose of the Buhari administration towards entrenching justice, equity and fair play to all, the Budget and National Planning Minister, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, said in Kaduna on Thursday. The Minister underscored the Buhari Administration’s resolve while commissioning the […]

Nigeria’s Fourth Republic, which is currently running, was born on May 29, 1999—with Olusegun Obasanjo as inaugural executive president. A year later, on May 29, 2000, the president proclaimed May 29 of every year Nigeria’s “Democracy Day”. The day was also added to the list of the country’s national public holidays. It was a unilateral […]