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The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has declared that President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent comments on the country’s electoral process under the current Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) questions the credibility of the February 2019 presidential election; saying in urging INEC and the police to ensure that the will of the people prevails in credible […]

The vice presidential candidate of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general election, and former governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi has revealed that the federal government initially demanded that Anambra and Delta State governments to pay 10% each of the total cost of constructing the Second Niger Bridge.   […]

The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Wednesday alleged that the Presidency’s continuous reference to a presidential successor less than a year into President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term was a direct acceptance of failure and lack of capacity of the Buhari administration to manage the affairs of a nation as complex as Nigeria.   The […]

The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday described President Muhammadu Buhari’s scathing remark on overseas medical treatment as hypocrisy that is “self-indicting and raises public apprehensions on high-level deceits in governance.” The PDP dismissed as ridiculous, “a situation where a president, who patronises foreign hospitals for treatment and even check-ups; whose administration has failed […]

A major royal fatality might have been averted yesterday when the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adewusi Adeyeye, got stuck in the elevator at Intercontinental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos; but Nigerians with their remarkable genius for travesty took to social media platforms to berate the Ooni for crying out loud for help; cynically asking why […]

The Federal Government has dismissed reports claiming that there was a mass recall of ambassadors from Nigeria’s diplomatic missions abroad.   Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Garba Shehu, in a statement yesterday, said only 25 career ambassadors, who attained the retirement age or had been in public service for 35 […]

Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, and his would-be successor, David Lyon, are heading for a showdown over briefing notes expected to be handed over to the incoming government. Dickson had promised to present a ‘methodical’ and ‘comprehensive’ document to whoever takes over from him on February 14.   He said: “I will do handover notes, […]

The Lagos-based Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), might have put itself on a collision course with the federal and state governments after it gave President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the 36 state governors and their deputies seven days to: “provide information on their assets and property submitted to the Code of Conduct […]

More than 24 hours after one of his well-known allies asked him to pick his possible successor, an aide of President Muhammadu Buhari has said the Nigerian leader is not interested in doing so.   “The president will not pick a successor if you know him,” Buhari’s media adviser Femi Adesina said on Channels TV […]

Nigeria’s chief justice, Justice Tanko Muhammad, has denied ever knowing former senator Shehu Sani, who is being investigated for alleged extortion and bribery by the anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).   A spokesman for the Commission said Senator Shehu Sani was arrested for collecting $10,000 from a businessman, Sani Dauda, owner […]

Oil prices rose a further 2 per cent on Monday, pushing Brent above $70 a barrel, as rhetoric from the United States, Iran and Iraq fanned tensions in the Middle East after a U.S. air strike which killed a top Iranian military commander.   Brent crude futures LCOc1 soared to a high of $70.74 a […]

Due to recent world events, the United States government has cautioned Americans to reconsider or review their personal security measures while travelling to or across Nigeria.   “Be aware of your surroundings; keep a low profile; stay alert in public places, including schools, hospitals, government facilities, places of worship, tourist locations, and transportation hubs; review […]