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The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) has described the World Bank N39.4 billion loan approval for Lagos state as unwarranted. The position of CACOL came on the heels of the recent release that the Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank has approved $200m (about N39.4bn) credit to Lagos State to support a range […]

Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole on Friday announced that businessmen who connived with some officials of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to defraud the nation through subsidy claims would soon be probed. He also urged public officers and politicians to get rid of their private jets because President Muhammadu Buhari has commenced  blocking […]

President  Mohammadu Buhari, Thursday,appointed  Mr. Lawal  Daura as the Director General of  the State Security Service(SSS). He replaces  Mr. Ita Ekpeyong,who was relieved of his appointment  The  firing and hiring was  made public via  a press  statement issued by Danladi Kifasi, Head of Civil Service  of the Federation. According to the statement, Mr. Daura was born in Daura […]Read More

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday rejected the appointment of Mrs. Amina Zakari as acting chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) by President Muhammadu Buhari. The party also criticised the President for his slow pace of governance 32 days after he was sworn into office. Buhari appointed Zakari as a replacement for […]

The authorities of the Department of State Services (DSS) have redeployed the 253 operatives that were earlier assigned to the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The personnel were sent back to their respective commands on Wednesday, until DSS authorities will get further directives from The Presidency on their deployment, sources said. Sources held that the 253 personnel […]

Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation and later spokesman of the campaign organisation of former President Goodluck Jonathan, was on Wednesday discharged and acquitted by a Federal High Court in Lagos after years of trial for charges of corruption brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimees Commission (EFCC). Fani-Kayode was finally freed […]

An attempt by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to secure the extradition of Senator Buruji Kashamu suffered another blow on Wednesday when a Federal High Court sitting Abuja dismissed the Federal Government’s application for the extradition of the Senator over drug-related offences. The suit was filed by the immediate past Attorney-General and Minister […]

There was jubilation in some parts of Lagos on Wednesday afternoon after the State Governorship Tribunal threw out the petition of Jimi Agbaje, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the governorship election of April 11 in state. In these areas of the state, including the Acme Road, Agidingbi office of the All Progressives Congress […]

Immediate past Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Mulikat Akande-Adeola, on Wednesday, lost her case concerning the 28th March election into the House of Representatives in Oyo State. Akande-Adeola, a two-term lawmaker in the House or Representatives and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for Ogbomoso North, Ogbomoso South and Oriire Federal Constituency, lost […]

Former Minister of Finance, and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has cried foul at the recent allegations that there was unauthorised spending from the Excess Crude Account (ECA) dduring the past administration. According to Okonjo-Iweala, in a press statement signed by his media office, any decision to take money from the ECA […]

For the first time in Nigeria, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) would be chaired by a woman, Amina Bala Zakari, who was late Tuesday appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari, in acting capacity. Zakari, until her appointment, was a commissioner in INEC. Her appointment followed the expiration of the tenure of Professor Attahiru Jega, who, […]

With the approval of a N20 billion loan by the Rivers State House of Assembly on Tuesday, Governor Nyesom Wike would have incurred a N30 billion debt since May 29 when he became the governor of the state. Wike, who got the nod of the House to borrow N10 billion about two weeks ago, again […]