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The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, on Tuesday met behind closed door with President Muhammadu Buhari. The meeting which was held inside the President’s office at the Presidential Villa, Abuja was believed to be part of efforts aimed at resolving the 2016 Budget controversy.  The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, however […]

The engineers in charge of the construction of the collapsed guest house of the Synagogue Church of All Nations which killed scores of people were on Tuesday returned to the Kirikiri prison where they were remanded by a Lagos court. Akinbela Fatiregun and Oladele Ogundeji will remain in prison till 3rd May, according to a […]

Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of Transportation, has promised Nigerians that they will soon start to see an improvement in the transportation sector, as a lot of work is going on in the background. Speaking in Lagos, on Monday, at a town hall meeting organised by the Federal Government, Amaechi declared that the change desired by Nigerians […]

The Deputy Senate President, Chief Ike Ekweremadu on Tuesday lamented that individuals in some parts of the country have over the years created some advantages for themselves to the detriment of other parts of the country, adding that this has made some people to be held down.  Speaking on an interview programme on RayPower FM […]

Troops of the 22 Brigade Garrison and elements of 3 Battalion who were on fighting patrol on Monday, to Gima village in Ngala Local Government Area made a startling discovery. They discovered that Boko Haram terrorists now have new means of identification. According to the Army Spokesperson, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, the troops came in […]

The Kaduna State Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), on Tuesday, attributed the accident that claimed the lives of six Ekiti State medical doctors to over speeding. The Sector Head of Operations, Deputy Corps Commander, Salisu Galadunci stated this in an interview with our correspondent in Kaduna. FRSC-operatives reports that the accident occurred […]

George Uboh, the serial fraudster who sensationally accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of diverting proceeds of recovered assets was Monday convicted and sentenced to three years imprisonment by Justice S. E. Aladetoyinbo of the Federal Capital Territory High Court Abuja, for his role in converting the property of the defunct Police Equipment Foundation […]

President of the World Bank, Dr. Jim Yong Kim is billed to arrive Nigeria this morning on a three-day visit barely four months after the visitation of the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Ms. Christine Lagarde. Kim is expected to arrive the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja by 9a.m. is to be […]

Nigerian’s Senate president, Bukola Saraki, has alleged that his opponents are plotting to force him out of office. Bukola Saraki, the Senate president, has raised the alarm over alleged plots by his opponents to create public disorder by organizing demonstrations and force him out of office. The office of the Senate president urged the inspector general […]

Former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (rtd) has approached the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, praying it to set aside the judgment of an Abuja High Court which declined to void his arrest and detention by the Federal Government since December last year in spite of existing three court orders that admitted […]

The Court of Appeal in Abuja  said on Monday that it would no longer hear applications for stay of proceedings in the trials of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), and the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh.  Justice Abdul Aboki who […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday secured the conviction of a former member of the Kogi State House of Assembly and former Caretaker Chairman, Ogori/Magongo Local Government Area of the state, Gabriel Daudu, for a N1.4 billion fraud. Daudu who was first arraigned in April 2010, was prosecuted by the EFCC on […]