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The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday said he has never described as illegal, the 2013 privatisation process for power generation and distribution companies of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN).  He said the newspaper report which attributed the statement to him was not factual. According to a […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s open criticism of Justice Mohammed Idris of a Federal High Court in Lagos has been described as  inappropriate by Mr Kolawole Olaniyan the Legal Adviser, International Secretariat of Amnesty International (AI), London. Olaniyan in a statement on Thursday, said that Obasanjo’s criticism of the judge was not only an attack on […]Read More

Presiding Judge of the Abuja division of the Court of Appeal, Justice Abdul Aboki, on Thursday adjourned hearing on the trial of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki till 18th July. Saraki had filed an application before the court contending with the jurisdiction of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) to preside over his matter. The […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has cancelled his widely publicised trip to the Niger Delta to inaugurate the clean up of Ogoni land, Rivers State, an inside source has said. According to www.www.aso.rocks search engine’s investigation, President Buhari has asked Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to represent him at the official launch of the clean up of the […]Read More

When former Vice President Atiku Abubakar spoke on the need to restructure Nigeria, saying the structure of the country is heavily defective as it does not provide the enabling environment for growth and progress among the 36 component states of the federation, he was right. “Our current structure and the practices it has encouraged have […]

When news broke out late last week that President Muhammadu Buhari had allegedly placed travel bans on two governors of the opposition party, PDP, in the persons of governors Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State and Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, an already unsettled nation became even more distressed. If the report is true, then our democracy […]

The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has slammed President Muhammadu Buhari over the killing of more than 30 Igbo protesters, who were mainly members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB). Govenor Fayose while condemning the Monday attack accused the president of turning the […]

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has banned the operations of motorcycles and tricycles in Gokana and Khana Local Government Areas of the state between 6 am and 6pm on Thursday. This is in preparation of the visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to Rivers State to flag off the implementation of the UNEP Report, Wike said. […]

Former governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam has has denied a report by an online news portal  accusing him of bribing the presiding judge in the corruption case brought against him the EFCC. The angered Suswam in a statement he personally signed said the report was a deliberate attempt to blackmail him as well subvert […]

The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) formally took over the party’s national secretariat Wednesday, promising that it would do everything to ensure that normalcy returns to the party as soon as possible. BOT chairman, Senator Walid Jibrin, led the members with the secretary, Ambassador Ojo Maduekwe, Dan Sulaiman, former Deputy […]

…77 Boko Haram Members Surrender The Nigerian troops deployed in Operation Lafiya Dole and their neighbouring counterparts under the Multinational Joint Task Force have rescued 247 people captured by Boko Haram. The troops also killed five Boko Haram members while 77 of the terrorist sect surrendered to the troops. The information was contained in a […]

Business activities at the headquarters of the Economic Reconstruction Fund on Wednesday as workers protested the failure of successive governments to make a pronouncement over the status of the organisation almost 16 years after President Obasanjo muted the idea of merger of Development Finance Institutions comprising NERFUND. The workers also accused the agency of mismanagement […]