Senate President Bukola Saraki The Senate on Wednesday said it has again uncovered illegal multiple withdrawals of $1.151 billion from the dividends accounts of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).This is apart from the $1.05 billion NNPC Group Managing Director Maikanti Baru earlier admitted to. The investigative committee, […]
Continue ReadingChief Olusegun Obasanjo Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has taken a swipe at politicians who use other people’s children as thugs while shielding theirs from trouble.The denunciation came amid concerns that parts of the nation may experience violence during the 2019 general elections. He made the condemnation on Wednesday while delivering a paper at the inauguration […]
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The House of Representatives on Wednesday adjourned its plenary session for the day over faulty microphone system. The House had on Tuesday adjourned plenary to Wednesday due to the same reason. Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara, said the problem has not been fixed because it can only be done by the manufacturers of the […]
Continue ReadingFrom Left, Sen. Suleiman Nazif, Chairman, Senate Committee on INEC; Prince Adelani Asade, Administrative Secretary, INEC, Lagos and Mr Oladosu Balogun, Head of Electoral Operations, INEC Lagos during the Senate Committee Oversight visit to the INEC headquarters in Lagos on Wednesday (NAN) The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Lagos State on Wednesday hosted the Senate […]
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By Oyeyinka Oludayisi Fabowale Twenty-year old poet, literary scholar and 2018 Coventry University First Class Honours graduate, Aanu Adesina speaks on his inspiration in a chat with Oyeyinka Oludayisi Fabowale. Anuoluwapo Adesina has his path as a scholar, writer and artist cut out early in life. He was born into a family of educationists, with […]
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Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, has described the statement credited to the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, asking him to resign his Senate position on a moral ground as a joke. Speaking with journalists in Ilorin on Wednesday during Islamic prayers for his late father’s sixth remembrance anniversary, the Senate President […]
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Heads of public primary and secondary schools in Ekiti State who collected alleged unauthorised levies at the beginning of the 2018/2019 academic year have been ordered to refund the pupils. Deputy Governor, Chief Bisi Egbeyemi, said school heads who collected and remitted such levies to government coffers should bring evidence of such remittances to the […]
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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, says it will be strange if the ruling party is experiencing “graveyard peace.” He also said it was only morally right for the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to resign his position as he belongs to the minority party. Oshiomhole, who spoke on Tuesday during […]
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP on Tuesday criticised Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo over his claim that the former President left Nigeria with debt and ruined the economy due to alleged corruption under his watch. The Vice-President had during a lecture entitled, “Restructuring and the Nigerian Federation,” delivered as part of activities […]
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By Akinwale Akinyoade 14 November 2018 Born on this day in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1864, Herbert Macaulay helped to lay the foundation of modern Nigeria and he contributed majorly to the shaping of popular perceptions of a modern nation and its obligation to the public.Macaulay belonged to a distinguished missionary family with roots in the […]
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