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Presenting his report, Chairman of the Senate Committee, Kabiru Gaya, declared that  Onochie failed the provisions of the Federal Character Principles.   The Senate on Tuesday bowed to public opinion and rejected the nomination of Lauretta Onochie, President Muhammadu Buhari’s aide, as a National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission.   Senator Gaya (APC, […]

… says governor was in school when North, South agreed on rotation’   Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization and one of the regional groups championing the return of power to the South, on Monday lampooned Yahaya  Bello, the of Kogi State over his recent criticism of the rotational presidency.   Bello, who is […]

Nigerian popular singer, Lanre Fasasi, who was better known as Sound Sultan, is dead. The singer died after a long-drawn battle with Angioimmunoblastic T-Cell Lymphoma. News of his death was announced in a statement on Sunday by Dr. Kayode Fasasi, on behalf of the Fasasi family. “It is with heavy hearts that we announce the […]

…Nigerian system not federalism but fatherism ― Dr Akinwunmi Adesina   Good morning everyone!   A very happy morning to you the Class of 2020 and Class of 2021!   Today is your big day. A day of joy, for you and your families, your lecturers and the University.   I wish to thank you […]

Godwin Obaseki, the Governor of Edo State, has declared that there are no plans by his administration to start a fight with the Oba of Benin, Ewuare II, over the return of stolen artefacts from the state.   The governor said he had no plans to engage in “disrespectful exchanges” with the revered traditional ruler. […]

Yahaya Bello, the Kogi Governor who is gunning to be Nigeria’s president in 2023, has criticized the demand by the Southern Governors for the presidency to be zoned to their region.   Speaking in Abuja on Friday, Yahaya, whose presidential campaign posters once flooded the nation’s capital, said the call by the governors was “unconstitutional”. […]

The ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja on Friday “ordered the Federal Government to pay journalist Agba Jalingo N30m as compensation for ill-treating and torturing him while in detention in Cross River state.”   The court said, in a judgment, “Agba Jalingo was arrested and chained to a deep freezer for about 34 days without […]

The Police Service Commission (PSC) has given its nod to the promotion of 24 Commissioners of Police to the next rank of Assistant Inspectors General of Police, (AIG, it said in a statement.   The PSC however declined promotion of former Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Commissioner of Police (CP), […]

The Nigerian government has wielded the big stick against airline operating in the country with a directive that they must refund the full cost of travel tickets to passengers after a two-hour delay.   This directive was given on Thursday by the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, at the weekly State House Briefing in Aso […]

The Senate on Thursday began the screening of Lauretta Onochie, an aide of President Muhammadu Buhari, and other nominees for National Commissioners for the Independent National Electoral Commission.   Onochie is President Buhari’s Special Assistant on Social Media. She arrived for her screening in the company of the Special Adviser to the President on National […]

  The Senate on Wednesday approved a request of $6.1 billion by President Muhammadu Buhari.   The Upper Chamber of the National Assembly also passed  a supplementary budget of N982.72bn presented to it by the President.   Approval for the loan followed the consideration of the report of the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign […]

  Presentation of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) discharge certificate is not necessary for holding a political office in the country a Federal High Court in Abuja has ruled.   The court made the pronouncement Wednesday as it cleared a former Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adosun, of the allegation that she did not […]