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Former Senate Leader,  Ali Ndume was on Wednesday suspended by the Senate for six months. The suspension was based on the report of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions which recommended that the senator be suspended. Just about two months ago, Ndume  was removed as the Leader of the Senate and replaced […]

The Senate today at plenary receives the list of Ministerial nomination from the President, C-in – C, President Mohammadu Buhari. The nominees are Professor Stephen Ikani Ocheni from Kogi State and Suleiman Zarma Hassan from Gombe State. According to the President in an executive correspondence read by the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, the list […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has sent names of two new ministerial nominees to the Senate for confirmation. A source close to the Senate told our correspondent that the letter arrived the Senate late Tuesday. The source revealed that the two nominees are from Kogi and Gombe state. Our correspondent gathered that the Kogi nominee will be […]

The Nigerian Senate has called for the suspension of the confirmation of the 27 Nigerians as Resident Electoral Commissioners (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The then Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, had sought legislative approval for the nominations. The lawmakers, while speaking on the report by the Senate Committee on INEC at […]

The Nigerian Governor Forum (NGF) has repudiated report that it misappropriated Paris loan refund.NGF made its position public in a statement issued by  Abulrazque B. barkindo Head, media & public affairs. Full text of the statement reads: ‘Our attention has been drawn to publications in the media, which are believed to have emanated from the […]

A former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Andrew Yakubu, has withdrawn his fundamental human rights enforcement suit, in which he sought N1bn as compensation for his alleged unlawful detention by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Yakubu had filed the suit before Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High […]

Nigeria’s Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali,  has revealed that the leader of the Boko Haram sect, Shekau, has not been killed contrary to many claims of his death by the government in the past. Dan-Ali also said it has been difficult arresting the sect leader because the insurgents normally wear masks to conceal their identities […]

…say NASS is a confused burden Nigerians on Tuesday sent a petition to President Muhammadu Buhari and demanded a referendum on whether the country should retain the present political arrangement having two chambers in the National Assembly. According to them, the National Assembly as constituted at present has remained a burden and is confused as […]

Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has lamented the rate at which corruption is being celebrated within the Nigeria system and called for a collective war against it to revamp the nation’s economy. He made the call on Monday, March 27, 2017 while speaking as the guest speaker at a 2-day National Anti-Corruption Stakeholders’ Summit organized by the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari warmly felicitates with former Lagos State Governor and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on his 65th birthday. President Buhari joins all members of the APC, political and business associates of the Asiwaju of Lagos, his friends and family, in celebrating another milestone in the life of the […]

Nigeria’s Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, has said he would resign if the repair of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja runway was not completed in six weeks as planned. Sirika made the statement on Monday alongside the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, who accused some people of spreading misinformation about the repair, stating […]

In line with its pledge to provide members of the public with periodic updates on its recovery efforts for crude swap under deliveries, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is pleased to confirm that it has now reached a final settlement with AITEO Group. The NNPC in a recent release by its Group General Manager, […]