The saying that blood is thicker than water is proving true as Nigeria’s immediate past Senate President Dr. Bukola Saraki and his sister, the Minister of State for Transport  Senator Gbemisola Saraki appear on the same page over the onslaught on their departed father and former Senate leader, Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki by the Kwara […]

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kwara State chapter has condemned the demolishion of a house, Ile-Arugbo belonging to late Olusola Saraki, father of a former Senate President, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki. In fact, the party’s Chairman in the state, Engineer Kola Shittu, in a statement, said the demolition portrayed Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq as a man who […]

Former Senate President, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has said justice will prevail on the demolition of his departed father’s ‘Ile Arugbo’ in Ilorin, Kwara State. The property, ‘Ile Arugbo’ which translates as ‘old people’s home’, was brought down by the Kwara State government in the early hours of Thursday. Saraki’s reaction made public on his […]

Kwara State Government has defended the demolition of a house belonging to late Senate leader, Dr Olusola Saraki and father of the immediate past Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, in Ilorin, the state capital. Commissioner for Communications, Murtala Olanrewaju, also said security officials thwarted the “attempts by some persons to provoke government’s agents on lawful […]

Some bank customers have frowned at their banks for not complying with the new CBN guidelines for charges on Automated Teller Machine (ATM), released by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Some of the customers who spoke in Abuja, regretted that banks had now devised a means of deducting ATM charges without sending the alert […]

Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, became $4.3 billion richer in 2019 as his fortune continued to grow on the back of investments in cement, flour and sugar. The 62-year-old Nigerian businessman and Africa’s most prominent industrialist ended the decade with a net worth of almost $15 billion, making him the 96th wealthiest man in the […]

join Kaduna, Borno, Kebbi, Adamawa, Jigawa, Lagos Osun inaugurates implementation committee Kano, Katsina and Bauchi states yesterday announced they had approved payment of the new minimum wage. Other states that have declared willingness to pay are Kaduna, Borno, Kebbi, Adamawa, Jigawa and Lagos. In a statement, the Kano State Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba, […]

Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF), Kayode Fayemi, briefing State House correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, Abuja…yesterday. PHOTO: PHILIP OJISUA Urges community leaders, groups to be agents of peace Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi has disclosed that the joint security outfit, ‘Amotekun, initiated by the six governors […]

Debt stock stands at $83 billion Govt’s deficits exceed N1 trillion in nine months Recurrent expenditure, borrowing costs to jolt economy ‘Information minister not well informed on debts’ A financial blow stares Nigeria in the face in 2020. No thanks to the somber mix of an $83 billion debt; rising recurrent expenditure; increased cost of […]