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Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on Monday declared that former Lagos state governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and his cohorts will fail again like they did in June, 2015; if they attempt to foist Senator Ahmed Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila as their anointed leadership on the Ninth National Assembly due for inauguration next June 8, 2019. […]

The Presidency on Monday lashed back at the Catholic Bishop of Yola Diocese, Rt. Rev. Fr. Stephen Mamza, who, in apparent exasperation over the rising insecurity and escalating incidents of killings, had described President Muhammadu Buhari as ”sleeping on duty as Commander-in-Chief.” In a reaction of anger, Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on […]

In a reaction that implied indolence and cluelessness on the part of the current administration, Senate President Bukola Saraki revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari presented only eleven bills to the National Assembly since May 2015 when he took office. The eleven bills are apart from the statutory budgets related bills. Saraki was responding to allegations […]

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is upbeat at the prospect of the Dangote Oil Refinery driving an increase in world crude oil refining capacity especially in Africa, by 2020. In the latest edition of its World Oil Outlook (WOO), OPEC said that the Dangote refinery, which is the first privately-owned and operated refinery […]

Atiku Abubakar, the defeated presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has debunked notions that he was Cameroonian by birth and thus not qualified to contest the Feb 23, 2019 presidential election. Atiku who was born in Jada in 1946, in present day Adamawa state, but then part of British Northern Cameroon, said he […]

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has discounted widespread media reports that he is backing Ahmed Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila to become Nigeria’s Senate president and Speaker respectively for self-serving reasons; saying his backing for Lawan and Gbajabiamila, both of whom have been […]

The Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) in Kano State has reminded all outgoing elected and appointed political office holders to declare their assets at the end of their tenure. This is contained in a statement signed by the CCB state Director, Umar Saulawa and made available to reporters on Saturday. He said there was need […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has pooh-poohed claims by Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that they won the February 23 presidential election and has underscored his victory by showing that he beat Atiku in his polling unit in Adamawa. A PDP source belittled the president’s claim, alluding to the fact that Buhari lost all […]

Two years after rats forced President Muhammadu Buhari to work from home, Liberian President George Weah has suffered a similar fate and this time around the Liberian first citizen has been forced out of his office by snakes. Buhari had to vacate his As Rock office for about 81 days for fumigation after the rodents […]

The National Judicial Council (NJC) has affirmed that it considered and approved the extension of the appointment of Justice Tanko I. Muhammad as the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria for another three months. The NJC, in a statement by its spokesman, Soji Oye said the decision to extend Justice Muhammad’s appointment was taken at the […]

Nigeria’s renascent democracy has been threatened by electoral irregularities and sundry abuses, but these absurdities assumed melodramatic proportions with the violence that marred the 2019 general elections where soldiers, police officers and armed thugs took over polling stations, assaulted  INEC staff, election observers, and journalists, even during supplementary polls that had to be conducted because […]

Former Chief Justice of Nigeria Walter Onnoghen has rejected the Code of Conduct Tribunal’s judgment against him. He has also filed an appeal challenging the ruling. CCT convicted Onnoghen on Thursday after he was found guilty for refusing to declare his assets from June 2005, after he became a Justice of the Supreme Court till […]