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President Muhammadu Buhari has on Tuesday sent his condolences to  the Dasuki family and the government and people of Sokoto State on the death of the 18th Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, made this known in a statement in Abuja. Buhari, joined […]

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has  refuted claims that some banks, particularly  Heritage Bank is distressed. The apex bank made clarification in a press statement issued, Tuesday, by Isaac Okoroafor, Ag. Director Corporate Communication. “The attention of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has been drawn to false and malicious stories on the social media […]

The Federal Government has filed charges against Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court, Abuja, and his wife, Olabowale, over allegations that they received N248,101,300 and $520,000 in gratification. The charges filed against the Justice and his wife, who is the Head of Service of Lagos State, is coming weeks after the judge was […]

This statement is issued in response to the latest falsehoods to emerge from Alhaji Atiku Abubukar. He has a record of spewing outright lies and innuendo against my person. As we struggle to build a law-abiding society and secure progressive outcomes for our people, we cannot allow the triumph on these shores of those who […]

The Nigerian Senate, Tuesday, rejected the 46 non-career ambassadorial nominees sent to it by President Muhammadu Buhari for legislative approval. www.www.aso.rocks search engine gathered that the decision to reject  the 46 non-career nominees  stem from a report  submitted to that effect by the Committee on Foreign Affairs. In the report, the committee pointed out that it discovered […]Read More

Former Sultan of Sokoto,  Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki has died.  The former Sultan, who died Monday night from a protracted illness in an Abuja Hospital, was 93. He would be buried on Tuesday by 2:00p.m, according to Muslim rites. Ibrahim Dasuki was the 18th Sultan of Sokoto.He was deposed in 1996 by   Gen. Sani Abacha led Military administration. […]Read More

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will soon embark on a warning strike, National President of the Union, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi has said. The warning strike is to protest the failure by the Federal Government to implement the 2009 Agreement and 2013 MoU. Ogunyemi made the decision known on Monday at the University of […]

There is palpable fear among the staff of the  Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA),following a disclosure by the Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, that President Muhammadu Buhari had approved the sacking of no fewer than 1,500 staff of the two establishments. NCAA and NAMA staff resumed with […]

Former Assistant Registrar of West African Examination Council, WAEC, Elder Alex Ajayi has opened up that he issued President Muhammadu Buhari’ and other two head of states’ certificates in the 60s. Eighty-six-year-old Alex Ajayi is the first graduate from Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State. He was also the campaign director to the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo […]

Senator Ahmed  Makarfi-led faction of  Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has urged  Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo state to reinstate the  deposed paramount ruler of Uromi,  Anselm Edenojie. The faction made the call in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Dayo Adeyeye, in Abuja on Sunday. Adeyeye condemned the deposition alleging that the monarch was […]Read More

80 years old Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, Sunday responded to those he decribes as literalists and ‘nattering nit-wits of Internet’ who have dared him rip to shreds his US Green Card, following the election of Donald Trump as President. His words: I shall begin on a morbid note. One of the horror stories that emerged from the […]Read More

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has raised the alarm over possibility of  preventing Justice Walter Nkanu Onnoghen from becoming the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), saying his appointment as Acting CJN was “either a grand plot to deprive him of his well-deserved appointment as CJN because he is from the South-South region or […]