• Early jobs unrealistic, says Fashola, seeks N10tr infrastructure loan• Aregbesola blames ignorance, mischief for criticism of his govt• Submit ministerial list to EFCC, PDP urges lawmakers  The performance of the President Muhammadu Buhari government in the last four years, especially on infrastructure, came under heavy criticism at the Senate on Monday. Many lawmakers rated […]

Immediate former governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola has vowed to pioneer serious taxation for wealthy people in Nigeria, when he becomes a Minister of the Federal Republic. He said this on Monday when he was being screened by the Senate. The minister nominee said  he was responding to the senator representing Abia central, Theodore […]

Court alters schedule of proceedings The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has explained why it chose not to call any witness in defence of the petition by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the last presidential election, Atiku Abubakar. INEC’s lead lawyer, Yunus Usman (SAN) told the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) […]

Lawyer to the detained leader of Shiites in Nigeria, Ibrahim El-Zakzaki, Mr Femi Falana, SAN, said on Monday that his clients, El-Zakzaky and wife Zinat, were in dire need of medical attention. Particularly, he said that El-Zakzaki’s deteriorating health is ‘very bad.’ He told reporters after Monday’s hearing that his clients had not been given […]

Thousands of women, under the auspices of PDP Women Liberators (PWL), staged a peaceful protest at the weekend in Owerri, Imo State, demanding an apology and stoppage of alleged harassment of ex-Governor Rochas Okorocha’s daughter by the agents of the state government. Okorocha’s daughter, Uloma, is married to Chief Uche Nwosu, a former Chief of […]

A coalition of Igbo women under the aegis of Assembly of Igbo Women in Nigeria and Diaspora (AIWND), on Monday handed a 24-hour ultimatum to the Imo State governor, Emeka Ihedioha, to investigate the reported assault on the daughter of the immediate past governor of the state and wife of the governorship candidate of Action […]

The Nigerian Senate has suspended the screening exercise to reconvene at 2 pm. This they did after screening three ministerial nominees. Today makes it the fourth day of the exercise, which started with the minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola During his screening, Fashola stated that the major problem for road construction […]

Nigerian Presidency says the prescription of Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) has nothing to do with banning the larger numbers of peaceful and law-abiding Shi’ites in the country from practicing their religion. A statement by Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity in Abuja on Sunday, however, said the banning […]

Members of the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC)  demonstrating against the continued detention of Shiites leader, Sheikh  El-Zakzaky in front of the Nigerian High Commission in London …yesterday. PHOTO: TUNDE OYEDOYIN • Why IMN was proscribed, by presidency• Shiites’ group urges aggrieved sect to seek justice legally• Yakasai, Junaid, others differ on government’s ban Dozens […]

Smoldering ashes are seen on the ground in Budu near Maiduguri on July 28, 2019, after the latest attack this weekend by Boko Haram fighters on a funeral in northeast Nigeria has left 65 people dead. (Photo by Audu Marte / AFP) President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday condemned the dastardly attack on a funeral procession […]