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As the casualty figure from the multiple explosions that rocked Kuje and Nyanya on Friday night in Abuja, scales up to 18, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has given what it calls an accurate detail of how the incident occurred. The target of the suicide bombers was the Kuje police station, but one of […]

The Niger State Government has vowed to go after aides of former Governor of the state, Babangida Aliyu in a bid to recover all funds belonging to the state that was misappropriated during the last administration. Disclosing the move on Saturday, Dr. Ibrahim Dooba, Chief Press Secretary to the present state Governor, Abubakar Bello, lamented […]

Popular Commissioner of Police in charge of the Ikeja Police College, Lagos State, Tunde Shobulo, has died. Shobulo died on Friday in Canada after suffering a protracted illness which some claimed was diabetes and others claimed was colon cancer. Police sources said that at a time, during the illness, Shobulo had to move his office […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday night sent the list of ministerial nominees to the Senate.The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, confirmed receiving the list through his Twitter handle. Saraki said he received the list at 5.30 pm and that it was delivered by Malam Abba Kyari, Chief of Staff to the President and Senator Ita Enang, […]

President Muhammadu Buhari Sunday in New York restated his determination to fully sanitize Nigeria’s oil industry and make it totally free of corruption and shady deals. Speaking at a meeting with President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the 70th General Assembly of the United Nations, President Buhari said that a necessary first step in […]

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose on Thursday in Yenagoa, said it is wrong on the part of President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint his in-law as the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), especially now that the nation is warming up for the conduct of election in Kogi and Bayelsa states. He also urged […]

Senate President Bukola Saraki will appear before the Code of Conduct Tribunal on Tuesday, his media office has said. Saraki finally agreed to appear before the tribunal after a Federal High Court and a Court of Appeal rejected his application to stop the tribunal from arresting him. The CCT had on Monday insisted that saraki […]

In a landmark move designed to supplement the Federal Government’s Cash- Call commitment, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has secured a $1.2 bn multi-year drilling financing package for 36 Offshore/Onshore Oil wells under the NNPC/Chevron Nigeria Limited Joint Venture. The funding package which is being financed by a consortium of Nigerian and International lenders […]

President Muhammadu Buhari and Senate President Bukola Saraki joined other Nigerians on Saturday to mourn the late wife of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, who passed on Saturday at the age of 99. The President, who condoled the children, grandchildren and great grandchildren of Chief Mrs Hannah Dideolu Awolowo, in a statement by his media adviser, Femi […]

Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo, wife of late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, is dead.Aged 99, she died just when her family was planning her 100th birthday anniversary. She was born on 25 November 1915.HID was born to a modest family in the small Ikenne community of Ogun State in Nigeria.She was famously referred to her as […]

Senate President Bukola Saraki, on Friday described the Code of Conduct Tribunal as a government institution being used to fight perceived political enemies. The tribunal had earlier on the same Friday ordered his arrest for his refusal to appear for trial of a 13 count-charge of falsifying his assets at the Code of Conduct Bureau. […]

The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) sitting in Abuja on Friday ordered the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, to arrest the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki. Arase is to be joined by other relevant security agencies in ‎the country in this task. The tribunal headed by Justice Danladi Umar issued the order of […]