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The “Aisha Buhari “Halliburton confusion has taken a dramatic twist, as the lady who shares the same name with the President’s wife, and whose passport was circulated, said she was not the person referred to in the bribery scandal. According to her, some persons in government in Nigeria forged her passport. Ex EFCC boss, Ibrahim […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the forthcoming Edo State governorship election, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has picked Prince Odi Okojie, Mercy Johnson’s husband as his running mate. Before his announcement, Prince Odi’s deputy governor’s flyer under PDP had flooded Edo state. Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu who defeated two other aspirants during PDP primary election […]

A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Lamorde, has said the Aisha Buhari mention in the bribery scandal involving a United States of America Congressman, Williams Jefferson, is not President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife. Lamorde, in an interview with our correspondent on Tuesday, said as one of those involved in the case […]

Justice Yusuf Halilu of an Abuja High Court sitting in Jabi, on Tuesday, deferred the arraignment of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, on a two-count charge bordering on conspiracy and forgery, till June 27. The court also ordered substituted service of the charge on the defendants by pasting it […]

At a two-day retreat on Constitution Review in Lagos by the Senate Adhoc Committee on Constitution Review, some presiding members of the Senate proposed an amendment to the Constitution which will entitle the Senate President and his Deputy, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and his Deputy to life-time pension. Those in support of […]

The Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has condemned the freezing of the personal account of the governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayo Fayose, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) describing it as an indecent practice in democracy. The party described the action as another of the several moves which the […]

Two of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirants in the just concluded Primaries in Edo State, Chris Ogiemwonyi and Kenneth Imansuangbon, have rejected the outcome of the exercise. They made the rejection at a joint press briefing yesterday at the campaign secretariat of Ogiemwonyi, where the aspirants urged the national leadership of the party […]

The minister for health, Isaac Adewole has directed that the resident doctors who went on strike be replaced. The doctors, attached to government hospitals had embarked on strike on Monday and the minister described this as abandoning their posts. This directive was contained in a document  signed by Amina Shamaki, permanent secretary, federal ministry of […]

The expectations of Ondo State workers to receive part of the five months salaries owed them by the state government was wrecked as Governor Olusegun Mimiko said there is no money to pay them. Mimiko, who communicated this on Tuesday when he met with the workers from level 1 to 17 at DOME Centre in […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Kpotun Idris, as the Acting Inspector-General of Police. The Acting Inspector-General, who hails from Kutigi, Lavun in Niger State, was born on 15th of January 1959, and was enlisted into the Nigerian Police Force in 1984, after graduating from the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria with a Bachelors degree in […]Read More

Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, a  lawyer and human rights activist,  has frowned at the freezing of the Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose’s account. He described the freezing of the  Governor’s, account as illegal. Adegboruwa emphasised that to freeze an account, there must be an order of court. Continuing, he said: “For the court to make an order, […]Read More

With the gale of retrenchment sweeping through the private sector, amid falling oil prices that has reduced allocations from the Federation Account by 60%, many states can no longer meet their recurrent expenditures, including salary obligations to workers. The unacceptable anomaly has turned states into beggars. The states have received two bailouts from the federal […]