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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has challenged Atiku Abubakar, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), candidate to produce and tender his educational certificates, indicating the schools attended by him, with dates; saying he was far more qualified than Atiku and on the contrary, it was Atiku that was not qualified to run for the office. The challenge was […]

The United States government of President Donald Trump will not intervene in any effort to ensure compliance after a court in Washington DC domesticated a September 2017 decision by the London court of arbitration that sentenced the Nigerian government to pay $9 billion to Process & Industrial Development (P&ID); a gas firm established in the […]

 Federal High Court in Kano Thursday sacked former senior special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on National Assembly matters, Kawu Sumaila, as the elected House of Representative member of Sumaila/Takai federal constituency of Kano. Sumaila won the election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in February but the court ordered the Independent […]

Ostensibly as a fallout of the decision to convict and remove the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walters Onnoghen, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a Freedom of Information (FOI) request, giving Dr. Muhammed Isah, Chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) 14 days to urgently provide “information on specific […]