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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday sent the budgets of agencies and corporations under the Fiscal Responsibility Act 2007 to the National Assembly. In a letter dated June 30, 2016 and addressed to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, the President said he was submitting the budget of 38 agencies and corporations […]

The Senate threatened to use it’s legislative powers including arrest warrant to force the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Ababukar Malami, to appear before it. This decision was reached on Tuesday following the explanation by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, Senator David Umaru, on the circumstances surrounding […]

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has called on the Federal Government to do everything to get justice for the slain member of the Redeemed Christian Church murdered in Abuja on Saturday. CAN also called on the authorities to do something about the unprovoked attacks on Christians to prevent future occurrence. According to a statement […]

The Federal Government has disclosed that the decision by the Federal Government to scrap post-University and Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) was to make admission into tertiary institutions less cumbersome for Nigerian youths. The Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, stated this on Monday at Effurun, Delta State when […]

Nigeria’s economy will probably contract this year as energy shortages and the delayed budget weigh on output, according to the International Monetary Fund. “I think there is a high likelihood that the year 2016 as a whole will be a contractionary year,” Gene Leon, the fund’s resident representative in Nigeria, said in an interview in […]

The Ossai Ossai Committee assigned to probe the alleged sex misconduct involving three Nigerian legislators will receive a video evidence of the alleged misdemeanours on Thursday.  The video evidence is to be presented before the committee by outgoing ambassador of the United States of America to Nigeria, James Entwistle at th commencement of the public […]

The embattled  erstwhile Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, on Monday met his bail conditions but he awaits verification of some documents by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). This was made public by Jude Ndukwe, the Media Adviser to the ex-minister. Ndukwe said Fani-Kayode was eager to reunite with his family. “Kindly be […]

The BringBackOurGirls group claims in a recent statement that President Muhammadu Buhari has “broken all promises” made to the group about rescuing the missing Chibok girls and that the government had been “lackadaisical” in the rescue mission. The Presidency will like to appeal to the officials and members of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) campaign group, […]

Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in forthcoming governorship election in Edo state, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has selected  Etsako Constituency Federal House of Representatives member, Mr. Philip Shaibu, as his running mate. ‎Shaibu was a former majority leader in the Edo State House of Assembly, under Etsako West II, where Governor Adams Oshiomhole hails […]

The ousted Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Sen Ali Modu Sheriff has disclosed that there are moves to settle the leadership crises currently rocking the party but maintained that his faction will not relinquish the party’s National Secretariat to his contender, who is the Chairman of the party’s Caretaker Committee, Sen Ahmed Makarfi. […]

Nigeria and South Africa are planning to sign an agreement on a post bank and agriculture. Nigeria’s Consul General in South Africa, Amb. Uche Ajulu-Okeke, said on Monday in Johannesburg that the Federal Government was exploring an opportunity through a private consortium to link Post Bank of South Africa with NIPOST. “If the platform works, […]

The attention of Afenifere has been drawn to  the statement  credited to the Vice-president of Nigeria, Prof Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), that the call for the restructuring of Nigeria would not make any difference. The Vice-President in the faux pas also argued that if states are given half of the resources of the Federal Government it […]