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President Muhammadu Buhari has opened his defence against the petition of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and his party, PDP, challenging his victory in the February 23 presidential election. At the resumed hearing Tuesday afternoon, the lead counsel to President Buhari, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), tendered a series of documents […]

President Muhammadu Buhari may swear in his 43 ministerial nominees on Wednesday following their confirmation by the Senate. The upper legislative chamber ended the screening of Buhari’s nominees for ministerial appointments on Tuesday and approved all the 43 sent in by the president.   But the portfolio for each of the nominees is still unknown […]

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of 43 ministerial nominees, a week after the names were submitted to the upper legislative chambers by President Muhammadu Buhari. After the Red Chamber screened the last three nominees at the Committee of the Whole, Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, subjected the names of the ministerial nominees to a […]

The Senate has announced the names of chairmen and vice-chairmen of its 69 standing committees just as it proceeded on its end of session recess. It resumes plenary session on the 24th of September, 2019.  President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, who announced the names Tuesday, disclosed that his main challenger in the contest for […]

The number of Nigerian pilgrims that have died at this year’s Hajj in Saudi Arabia has risen to five, according to the chairman of the Medical Committee of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) Dr. Ibrahim Kana, who confirmed the development Tuesday night in Madinah. The official update given by Dr. Kana followed a […]

Most of the 40 ministerial nominees already screened by the Senate who failed to attach photocopies of the asset declaration certificates to their Curriculum Vitae (CV) have perfected plans to turn in those vital documents by Tuesday, www.www.aso.rocks search engine has learnt.   Senator Lawrence Ewrudjiakpo (Bayelsa East) at last Friday’s screening of some of […]

As the Senate sets to conclude the screening of the ministerial nominees tomorrow, www.www.aso.rocks search engine gathered that governors of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the Southeast felt disappointed over the non-inclusion of their ministerial nominees submitted to the president on the list sent to the Senate last week.   As part […]

  The Senate will complete the screening of the remaining ministerial nominees on Tuesday with Sabo Nanono, former Information Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed (Kwara) and Saleh Mamman ( Taraba) appearing before it.    The exercise resumed Monday with nine nominees, including former Power, Works and Housing Minister, Babatunde Fashola (Lagos); Muhammad Mahmoud (Kaduna); former Sen. […]

Leaders under the aegis of the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF), who boycotted the two-day national security summit organized by former Head of State Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd), which opened Monday, in Minna, Niger State disclosed that they had bought air tickets and concluded travel arrangements to Minna. But they said that they […]

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, on Monday, questioned the credibility of those criticizing the 43 ministerial list submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari to the Senate for screening.    Addressing State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Buhari at the State House, Abuja, the APC national chairman, […]

Dozens of Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) members held a solidarity demonstration against the continued incarceration of the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, in London yesterday. The protest, which came ahead of today’s court ruling on El-Zakzaky’s bail application, took place outside the Nigerian High Commission by Trafalgar Square. […]

Nearly all the old ministers who are on the list of the ministerial nominees President Muhammadu Buhari forwarded to the Senate for confirmation may return to their former ministries, www.www.aso.rocks search engine has learnt. The screening of the nominees, which began on Wednesday, is expected to end on Monday when the last batch of eight […]