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  • Saraki Family Secures Court Injunction against Further Demolition of Property

    The family of a former Senate Leader, the late Dr. Abubakakar Olusola Saraki yesterday said it had secured court injunction from the state high court against any further demolition of the family’s Ile Arugbo property by the administration of Governor Abdulrazaq Abdulrahman.   One of the family’s lawyers, Abdulazeez Ibrahim who disclosed this to journalists […]
  • US-Iran Crisis: Why $31m daily oil windfall may not benefit Nigerians

    Nigerians may not benefit from the higher oil revenue the country is making due to the rising price caused by the raging face-off between the United States and Iran. Oil prices have risen significantly since last Friday, after Qasem Soleimani, a top Iranian commander, was killed in a US strike ordered by President Donald Trump. […]
  • Crisis looms after demolition of property of Saraki’s father

    The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday condemned what it described as the “unwarranted and vindictive demolition” of a property linked to former Senate President Bukola Saraki. A bulldozer accompanied by security operatives destroyed Ile Arugbo located at Iloffa Road, Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, midnight yesterday. The property belonged to the late Dr. Olusola […]
  • AGF rationalises prolonged dtention of Dasuki, Sowore

    The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) yesterday insisted that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration was constitutionally right in detaining former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) and the convener of the #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore, despite several court orders that they be released on bail pending trial. […]
  • Oshiomhole meets Buhari, accuses PDP of engendering third term agenda crisis

    The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole has accused the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of throwing up the idea of a third term agenda in Nigeria’s democratic space, accusing the PDP of suffering from monolithic hangover from Obasanjo’s abortive third term agenda. Oshiomhole spoke after leading members of the […]
  • DSS arrests suspect for creating and sharing fake video of Buhari’s wedding

    The Department of State Services has arrested a 32-year-old man, Kabiru Mohammed for creating and distributing fake videos depicting President Muhammadu Buhari wedding the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed and Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq. The suspect, Mohammed, who admitted to creating and sharing the videos begged for forgiveness, saying it […]
  • Buhari condems Attack on Kogi Community that killed 19, Razed Houses

    President Muhammadu Buhari last night in Abuja condemned the murder of 19 persons by unknown gunmen in Tawari community in Kogi State. This was as the State Governor, Yahaya Bello directed security agencies to fish out the perpetrators of the attack and bring them to book. A statement by presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, said Buhari […]
  • Dangote enters 2020 five times richer than Donald Trump

    Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, became $4.3 billion richer in 2019 as his fortune continued to grow on the back of investments in cement, flour and sugar.  The 62-year-old Nigerian businessman and Africa’s most prominent industrialist ended the decade with a net worth of almost $15 billion, making him the 96th wealthiest man in the […]
  • Gbemi Saraki accuses Gov. Abdulrazaq of unjustified attack on her late Father

    Gbemisola Saraki, the daughter of the late former Senate leader, Dr. Olusola Saraki, who is also Minister of State, Transportation, has condemned Thursday’s demolition of a bungalow in Ilorin, Kwara State, known as Ile Arugbo, used by her father to cater to the needs of old women; saying in a statement that it amounted to […]
  • Buhari restricts Ministers” travels as Debts, Low Revenue usher Nigeria into 2020

    President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, placed travel restrictions on all his ministers, who can only now travel out of the country eight times in a year. Information, Culture & Tourism Minister Lai Mohammed, who disclosed the new restrictions said Buhari directed that no Minister should go on foreign trips more than twice in a quarter. […]
  • Court gives EFCC nod to detain Adoke for additional 14 days

    Justice Othman Musa of an Abuja High Court yesterday said he was returning the case file of Mohammed Adoke, a former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), to the chief judge of the Federal Capital Territory. Musa said this at the resumed sitting scheduled for hearing of Adoke’s bail application over the $1.2 billion Malabu […]
  • Kwara Gov’t Demolishes Saraki’s House in Ilorin

    The Kwara State government has finally demolished the property belonging to the Second Republic Senate Leader, the late Dr. Olusola Saraki, located along Ilofa road, GRA, Ilorin. The demolition, according to eyewitness accounts, was effected early Thursday morning by the officials of the state government. It was further learnt that the demolition of the house […]