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President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday warned that the two million displaced Nigerians in refugee camps must be properly resettled if the country is to avert a relapse into another social crisis. Speaking at a meeting with Sheikh Sharif Mohammed Kabir Ibn Mohammad, the world leader of Tijjaniya Islamic Movement at the State House, the President lamented […]

The National Assembly has approved the virement request of president Muhammadu Buhari with an increment of over N33 billion. The process leading to the request which was approved on Tuesday was initiated last month when Buhari requested for N180billion virement from the 2016 Appropriation Act but both chambers of the National Assembly jerked it up. […]

The former Governor of Lagos State and the incumbent Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Raji  Fashola SAN, gave one of the greatest speeches by any politician in Nigerian history on Friday 25th November, 2016  while  delivering lecture as the Guest Speaker at the 42nd Convocation Lecture of the University of Benin, at the Akin Deko […]Read More

President Muhammadu Buhari Monday assured that his administration’s reforms will ensure that Nigerians who spent the productive years of their lives serving the nation will not experience difficulties in getting their pensions. Speaking at a meeting with Barrister Sharon Ikeazor, the Executive Secretary, Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) at the State House, the President directed […]

A Senior Legislative Assistant with the National Assembly, Mr Abubakar Doki on Monday collapsed and died in the National Assembly premises. The deceased who was said to be in his early 50, was until his death, a Senior Legislative Aide (SLA) attached to the office of the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yussuf […]

The Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos on Monday heard a witness describe how foreign currency was moved from Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia chambers and deposited into her account in Diamond Bank. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Ademola Oshodi was testifying at the ongoing trial of Ofili-Ajumogobia, a serving Justice of the Federal […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the results of weekend’s election in Ondo State, calling for the cancellation of the result producing Rotimi Akeredolu as governor-elect.  The party condemned the election as ‘a charade’ and not the true reflection of the will of the people of Ondo State. In a statement by its spokesman, […]

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described the controversial Federal High Court Abuja judge, Justice Okon Abang as a cancer that is capable of destroying the entire judiciary in Nigeria if nothing is done to curb his excesses. The governor, who said Justice Abang was now seeing his position as a judge as a […]

Moved by the plight of the Internally Displayed Persons (IDPs) and returnees in Yobe State, many of whom have been hit by starvation, the Dangote Foundation has flagged off the distribution of food and other relief items worth over N100 million to IDP camps in the state. The Foundation said its support to the IDPs […]

The National Working of the PDP met to review the State of the Party and the elections in Edo and Ondo State.  And identified impunity and lack of respect for the PDP constitution and the rule of law as the major problems that led to our failure in the Edo and Ondo Governorship elections. The […]

Against the emerging consensus that lawmakers and their executive counterparts take so much from public coffers, with no such corresponding policy outcomes as could justify the squander, which to say the least, borders on criminality, President Buhari and his APC party cannot continue to be oblivious of the wishes and aspirations of Nigerians who elected […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Party, Mr.  Rotimi Akeredolu, as winner of Saturday’s governorship election in Ondo State. This is coming hours after ‎Akeredolu already declared himself winner and took his victory to the streets. The Returning Officer, Prof. Abdul-Ganiyu Ambali, told newsmen in Akure that Akeredolu polled […]