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…APC, DSS Abusing Power, Dasuki Says The Directorate of State Security Service (DSS) has, once again,  stormed the Abuja, Nigeria home of former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki. According to Dasuki’s aides, who hinted newsman about the raid, DSS officials stormed the home on Thursday morning taking over the entire residence. According to some of […]

Senate President Bukola Saraki’s legal team, led by Joseph Daudu (SAN), on Thursday withdrew from representing their client at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) after the tribunal refused to suspend the case to allow the Supreme Court conclude the appeal before it. Saraki had gone to the Supreme Court to appeal the judgement of […]

Justice Ibrahim Buba of a Federal High Court in Lagos has restrained the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRCN) from interfering in the operations of Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc pending the final determination of a suit against the agency by Stanbic IBTC Holdings. In a ruling on the motion for interlocutory injunction filed by Stanbic […]

Senate President Bukola Saraki on Wednesday named 65 committees to oversee various ministries, departments and agencies of government.He also named the chairmen and deputy chairmen of the committees as reproduced below:  1.Committee on Rules & Business Babajide Omoworare Ali Ndume 2.Senate Services Committee Ibrahim Gobir  Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi 3.Committee on Ethics & Privileges Samuel Anyanwu […]

The 36 nominees recently confirmed by the Senate for appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari may not all get portfolios. In fact, some of them would end up being Special Advisers to the President. The President is capitalising on the fact that apart from the challenges of funds facing the government, the Nigerian constitution did not […]

…Opts for Direct Sale of Crude Oil -Direct Purchase of Products (DSDP) In a move to further reinforce it’s commitment to transparency and eliminate the activities of middlemen in the crude oil exchange for product matrix, the Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC on Tuesday announced the replacement of the Offshore Processing Arrangement, […]

The Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, has handed over the final list of ministers who scaled through the confirmation process to President Muhammadu Buhari. Saraki presented the list to Buhari during a meeting at the Presidential Villa on Tuesday. At the meeting, the President reiterated that the Federal Government may not be able to fund […]

Colonel Hameed Ali (rtd), the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service, has approved the appointment of six acting Deputy Comptrollers-General of Customs in the ongoing restructuring in the Service. The six Officers, who are of the rank of Assistant Comptroller-General, will occupy the positions of Deputy Comptrollers-General in acting capacity. They are: ACG Idris Suleiman (Finance […]

Shehu Mohammed Atiku, a witness in the ongoing trial of Danjuma Goje, Gombe State former governor and serving senator has told a Federal High Court in Gombe that the ex-governor forged the Resolution of the House and collected N5bn facility from Access Bank. “My Lord, the said resolution did not emanate from the Gombe State […]

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Monday inaugurated the newly appointed chairmen, Executive Secretaries and members of some boards and commissions of state agencies with a charge on them to leave Lagos better than they met it. He also urged them to see their appointment as a call to service and give extra-ordinary efforts […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday received his predecessor, former President Goodluck Jonathan and the duo held a close-door meeting within the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Jonathan, who was visiting his host for the second time since he left office in May, arrived at exactly 2.00pm and proceeded to the New Banquet Hall of the State House […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has drawn the attention of Nigerians to “the harmful consequences of the unabated negative statements from the very father of the nation, President Muhammadu Buhari, on the economy and the general image of the country.” The party said on Sunday that it was worrisome that in the last six months, […]