President Muhammadu Buhari and All Progressives Congress(APC) Governor’s are in a closed-door meeting in the Executive Council Chamber of of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting, which started around 3pm, was rescheduled following postponement of the earlier one by President Buhari last week just before he traveled to Belgium for the EU-African Summit. The meeting […]
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has obtained permission of a Federal High Court in Abuja to detain suspended DCP Abba Kyari and six others for 14 days in the first instance. Justice Zainab Abubakar, in an ex-parte ruling on Tuesday, granted the NDLEA’s request to detain Kyari, Chibunna Patrick Umeibe and Emeka Alphonsus […]
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Sarah Ochekpe A Federal High Court sitting in Jos on Tuesday sentenced a former Minister of Water Resources, Sarah Ochekpe, to three months imprisonment. Ochekpe, who served as Minister under former President Goodluck Jonathan, was sentenced alongside a former chairman of the People Democratic Party in Plateau state, Raymond Dabo, and the Plateau State Coordinator […]
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Senator Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos State, has said media reports quoting him as saying he was “ready to get dirty” to achieve his presidential ambition were taken out of context. His media aide, Tunde Rahman, in a statement on Monday, said his principal, while referring to some of the unwarranted attacks against him, […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari and All Progressives Congress (APC) Governors will meet today to further discuss the party’s forthcoming National Convention. The chairman of Progressives Governors Forum Governor Abubakar Bagudu disclosed this on Tuesday after a crucial meeting of the forum in Abuja. The Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), at the end of its 20th regular […]
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The seesaw between President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly over the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2022 does not bode well for the electoral system and the sustenance of democracy. With only a few days left for the bill to become law early enough to enable the umpire to meet its already fixed dates for […]
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Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the lead counsel for the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, on Monday gave an insight on how the Department of State Services denied him and other lawyers access to their client twice. According to him, the DSS on February 17 and 21 turned back the lawyers on the excuse […]
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The House of Representatives’ Committee on Public Accounts, on Monday, condemned the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Niyi Adebayo, for shunning its invitation to answer queries over the issuance of capital allowances by his ministry to the tune of N33bn. At its investigative hearing in Abuja, the committee frowned on the non-appearance of Adebayo […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari cannot be stampeded into signing the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, the Presidency told Nigerians yesterday. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, said it was hasty for some groups to hassle the President over their perceived delay in signing the Bill that was transmitted by the National […]
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One of the five authors of Nigeria’s National Anthem, Prof Babatunde Ogunnaike is dead. He was 65. Ogunnaike was born on March 26, 1956 and hailed from Ijebu Igbo, Ogun State. A notable Nigerian educationist and publisher, Gbenro Adegbola confirmed his death. According to Adegbola, Ogunnaike emerged as one of five, whose words and phrases […]
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