The dozens of Nigerian schoolgirls who were freed from their Boko Haram kidnappers earlier this month have finally been reunited with their families. The 82 ladies, have been among the 276 kidnapped in 2014 from their school in the little town of Chibok in northeastern Nigeria, ...
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Saraki’s False Assets Declaration Trial Stalled Again
The absence of prosecution witnesses on Thursday in Abuja at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) again stalled the trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki. The senate president is standing trial over alleged false assets declaration while serving as governor ...
Read More »President Buhari absent at the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council, FEC.
The ongoing meeting, held inside the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Wednesday is being chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo due to the president’s absence. The meeting did not hold last week Wednesday due to the Easter ...
Read More »Court grants Nnamdi Kanu bail, to produce Jewish leader as surety
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA—The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, who is facing charges bordering on treasonable felony. Trial Justice Binta Nyako said her decision ...
Read More »Meningitis Outbreak: God is punishing Nigerians for fornicating – Governor Yari
The Zamfara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, on Tuesday attributed the renewed outbreak of meningitis which has claimed hundreds of lives in parts of the country to flagrant disobedience to God. Specifically, he said fornication was the main reason God ...
Read More »Nothing like Abacha loot, it is a media creation – Bamayi
Former Chief of Army Staff, General Ishaya Bamaiyi, yesterday, said that Late Gen. Sani Abacha, was not the corrupt leader he was said to be and that the concept of “Abacha Loot” was a media creation. He made excuses for ...
Read More »Buhari orders sack of PermSec
By Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor ABUJA—President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the sack of a Permanent Secretary, who has been allegedly using his office to defraud the Federal Government through the award of phantom contracts worth billions of Naira to ...
Read More »Omo Egbe Yoruba ati ‘OPC’ (Oodu Peoples Congress) Fajuro lori rogbodiyan ti o sele ninu ile ife
Awon omo egbe apapo-Yorùbá-titi eka –oselu, Afenifere ati awọn omo egeb (Oodua Peoples Congress), OPC, ti fariga nipa rogbodiyan ti oun lo ni ilu Ile Ife. Ninu oro kan ti abenugo fun eggbe Afenifere kán so eyi ti un se ...
Read More »Ali rushes to Senate, meets with Saraki, Lawan as Buhari intervenes
By Henry Umoru ***As Ali rushes to Senate, meets with Saraki, Lawan, ***Regrets inability to answer senators’ invitation ABUJA— PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari may have waded into the looming crisis between the Senate and the Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ibrahim ...
Read More »National Assembly Clerk slumps, dies at NASS complex
A National Assembly Clerk, Mohammed Shuaibu has, Monday, slumped and died at the National Assembly complex, Abuja. Late Shuaibu who hails from Zaria, Kaduna State reportedly slumped at about 12.noon while walking on a staircase and was rushed to the ...
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