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Dogara adjourns House after a rowdy session
The crisis over who occupied the position of principal officers in the National Assembly among members of the majority All…
Saraki rubbishes APC, names Ndume senate leader
Nigeria’s Senate President Bukola Saraki during plenary on Thursday named Senator Ali Ndume as Senate Leader and Bala Ibn Na’Allah…
South Africa threatens ICC withdrawal over al-Bashir controversy
The South African government on Thursday threatened to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) after a row over the…
Borno denies reports on Chibok School Principal
The Borno State government on Thursday denied an online media report on the alleged nomination of Mrs Asabe Kwambura, the…
Buhari and the Lessons of June 9th
By SKC Ogbonnia/Texas The events since the inauguration of Nigeria’s 8th National Assembly are not trending exactly like the making…
House of Commotion: Reps fight over election of Principal Officers
The House of Representatives descended into full blown crisis Thursday as rancorous members disrupted its session and engaged themselves over…
Japan executes convict, 12th under premier Abe
Japan on Thursday confirmed the execution of one death-row inmate by hanging, in the first execution since August, bringing the…
Akwa Ibom governor seeks cooperation with Umana, APC
Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom has called on the All Progressives Congress (APC) to cooperate and support his administration…
Lagos issues 21 days ultimatum to Okada riders to vacate restricted routes
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has given okada riders in the state a 21-day ultimatum to vacate all restricted…
Ikorodu Robbery: Lagos vows to crush robbers
Kazeem Ugbodaga Following early morning robbery of two banks in Ikorodu area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, the Lagos State Government…
Nigeria’s 7th senate most corrupt in the world, Abdul-Hakeem declares
Eromosele Ebhomele A popular Lagos-based Islamic cleric and former lawmaker, Abdul-Lateef Abdul-Hakeem, has described Nigeria’s seventh National Senate headed by…
Why Buhari must emulate Wike
I’m not a big fan of Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, in fact, I’m not a fan of Wike…
Enugu govt wants FG to settle disputed border with Ebonyi
The Deputy Governor of Enugu State, Mrs Cecilia Ezeilo, has called on the National Boundary Commission to intervene in a…
Police IG, ICPC partner to fight anti-corruption
The Inspector-General of Police (IG), Solomon Arase, on Wednesday urged the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC)…
Imo assembly bans sale of locally brewed gin
The Imo State House of Assembly has adopted two motions urging ministries, departments and agencies to improve the sanitation of…
Kaduna to host Nigeria/Egypt AFCON qualifier
The Ahmadu Bello Stadium in Kaduna state will host the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifying match between the…
PDP to elect national chairman in August
Senator Walid Jibrin, the Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT), has hinted that the opposition…
Buhari has not expelled SSS from Aso Rock – Presidency
The presidency has reacted to rumours that personnel of the State Security Service have been expelled from the Presidential Villa,…
PDP can provide guidance to NASS members – BoT
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustee (BoT), says the party has the capacity to provide guidance to the…
Gunmen kill 2 policemen, abduct 2 Lebanese in Bayelsa
Gunmen on Wednesday killed two policemen and abducted two Lebanese in Onuegbum, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa. The slain…
Kano govt. ready to battle drug abuse
Hajiya Zubaida Sheriff, Kano State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, says the government is determined to wage war…
NASS Crisis: Governors beg Buhari to save APC
ari As the National Assembly crisis took a turn for the worse Tuesday, governors of the All Progressives Congress have…
Two men remanded in prison over N465.7m fraud
Henry Ojelu Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja, Wednesday remanded two men at the Kirikiri Maximum Prisons…
Drunk policeman kills teenager in Ijebu Ode
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Pandemonium struck this afternoon in Ijebu Ode when a hit and run police officer, who was in mufti…
Workers shut operations of AIT/Ray Power Radio over unpaid salaries
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Members of staff of DARR Communications, owners of AIT/Ray Power stations in Benin City, Edo sate, engaged the…
Covenant University produces 104 First Class graduates
Covenant University, Ota, Ogun, on Wednesday said that it would graduate a total of 1, 315 students, with 104 bagging…
7 die after consuming local brew in Kenya
No fewer than seven people died and five others were hospitalized on Wednesday after consuming toxic brew in Thika town…
Why we must build our children – Tejuosho
Eromosele Ebhomele Funmilayo Tejuosho, the lawmaker representing Mushin Constituency 1 at the Lagos State House of Assembly, western Nigeria, on…
Lagos Govt opposes Sexual Offences bill
Henry Ojelu Lagos state government yesterday added it’s voice to the growing opposition to the controversial Sexual Offences Bill 2014…
Bribery allegation: Edo APC defends Oyegun
Jethro Ibileke/Benin The Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has dismissed allegation of bribery allegedly levelled against…