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The leadership of the Federal House of Representatives on Tuesday adjourned legislative session in order to enable members of the All Progressive Congress (APC) participate in the party’s registration exercise. Aminu Tambuwal, speaker of the House of Representatives pronounced this after the debate on the 2014 budget proposal was stalled. All the executive bills, including the […]

Erstwhile Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar who defected to the All Progressive Congress (APC) two days ago from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has embarked on a political voyage at the end of which he would return begging to the PDP. Making this assertion while declaring open a Strategic Consultative Workshop for Women in Media […]

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo; former Head of State, General Muhammad Buhari; and Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi were the most notable absentees at Tuesday’s meeting the Council of State, which held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. In contrast, erstwhile Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida; former President, Shehu Shagari; former Heads of State, Yakubu […]

An early-morning tragedy in the Ajah area of Lagos State on Tuesday resulted in the death of a man identified as Mr. Sunday Megba and his daughter, Lola, while his wife, Sade, was seriously injured. The car, an SUV with registration number Lagos DN 866 JJJ, in which they were returning from church plunged from the Ikota Bridge into […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as reckless, irresponsible and totally condemnable the threat by controversial leader of the Niger-Delta Peoples volunteer Force, Mujaheed Asari-Dokubo to levy war against Nigeria even if President Goodluck Jonathan is defeated even in a free and fair election in 2015. In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by its […]

President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday held a closed-door meeting with service chiefs behind at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Although no statement was issued when it ended, it is believed that the meeting, which lasted several hours and was the first since last month’s appointment of new service chiefs, was occasioned by the resurgence in the terrorism activities […]

Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal on Monday expressed concern over the spate of corruption in the management of finance of public institutions culminating into loss of billions stolen funds. To tackle the problem, the speaker assured that the establishment of Nigerian Financial Intelligence Agency (NFIA) would help in ending the era of […]

Former Governor of Kwara State and current senator, Dr. Bukola Saraki has described the 2014 budget proposal of the President Goodluck Jonathan administration as full of inconsistencies that would condone serious fraud and impunity. He said this in a critical analysis of the budget posted on his website. Among other such inconsistencies, Saraki mentioned situations […]

After hinting of “great news” to his almost 200,000 followers on Twitter on Saturday night, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Sunday finally defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC). In a statement he personally released on Sunday afternoon, Atiku said he took the decision after wide consultations with friends, loyalists […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said contrary to the ‘misinformation’ being peddled in some quarters, there is no existing court order barring the 11 former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senators from defecting to the APC last week. In a statement issued in Ilorin on Sunday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said […]Read More

The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS), an agency of the state government, on Friday announced the shutting of a total of 250 companies in 2013 over their refusal to remit their workers’ personal income tax to government. Disclosing this as part of the review of its activities for last year, Head, Distrain Unit of LIRS, Mrs. […]

As part of his determination to reunite warring members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), National Chairman of the party Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu on Friday held a closed-door meeting with former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida. Leading a team of 15 loyal party leaders, Muazu got to the Minna Uphill residence of Babaginda at about midday and […]