In from Olumide Olaoluwa . . . After a five-month wait, Nigeria finally has a new Federal Executive Council (FEC) constituted. President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday...
The National leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has disowned the appology tendered by the Chairman of the party’s National Conference Planning Committee, Chief Raymond...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday presided over inaugural meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) after the swearing-in of the new ministers. Photos: courtesy presidency RipplesNigeria...
The sharp division in the Senate reared its head again on Wednesday, as some pro-Lawan Senators, led by Senators Ahmed Lawan and George Akume, walked out...
The Senate, Wednesday, ordered an investigation into the management of the Treasury Single Account, TSA as operated by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari. The Senate,...
President Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday, inaugurated his cabinet, in what is seen as the beginning of governance by the APC-led administration. The President also assigned portfolios to...
By Stan Azuakola . . . Since July 28, 2015, the name plate on Femi Gbajabiamila’s door at his national assembly office has borne the title:...
Former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, has turned down an invitation to be part of the National Rebranding Conference of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), adding...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) . . . In what appeared like eating the humble pie, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has apologized to Nigerians,...
Following Tuesday’s sudden retirement of 17 federal Permanent Secretaries, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of 18 new Permanent Secretaries for the federal civil service...
A purge of the Federal Civil Service may be in the offing, as President Muhammadu Buhari has reportedly ordered the mass retirement of permanent secretaries. Reports...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) . . . A group in the House of Representatives loyal to Majority Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila, Monday branded House Speaker,...
As protests by agitators for a Biafra state continue to spread, the Imo State governor and Chairman of Progressives Governors’ Forum, Chief Rochas Okorocha, has called...
The Nigerian Army has set up a committee to probe the allegations partisanship of its officers and soldiers in the last general elections in some states,...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews . . . President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday administered the oath of office on the new Chairman of the Independent National Electoral...
A Benue State High Court, sitting in Makurdi, has dismissed a suit brought before it by the immediate past governor of the state, Mr Gabriel Suswam,...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews . . . The simmering crisis in the House of Representatives came to the fore again on Monday, as Majority Leader, Femi...
At least eight persons are reported to have been killed on Sunday as protest against the sacking of Governor Darius Ishaku, by Elections Petitions Tribunal led...
Fiery and controversial pastor, Tunde Bakare, has said that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari should not be described as clueless as the Goodluck Jonathan government...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) . . . All Progressives Congress, APC, Sunday, said the judgement of the Taraba State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) . . . President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministers-designate will take their oat of office on Wednesday, ending the long wait for...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa . . . Although the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) was established with a major aim of providing spiritual guidance and a...
The Peoples Democratic Party , PDP, has reacted to Saturday’s ruling of the Taraba State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal that nullified the election of Governor Darius...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews . . . The Taraba State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, Saturday, nullified the election of Governor Darius Ishaku of...
Constrained financially from performing his professional duties, the Special Adviser to the Rivers State Governor on Media and Publicity, Mr. Opunabo Inko-Tariah, has thrown in the...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) . . . The immediate past National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki, is no doubt in the eye of the...
Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Friday, counselled the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, not to become a tool in the...
A minister-designate, Senator Chris Ngige has stated that the ongoing debate over the statement credited to President Muhammadu Buhari that not all ministers would be assigned...
The Senate President, Bukola Saraki has lost another bid to stop his arrest and trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) in Abuja, as a...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) . . . The All Progressives Congress, APC, has reacted to the growing controversies surrounding the Wednesday motion in the...
The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Thursday, slammed Senators elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, of hypocrisy and acting...
The Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has reacted to moves to probe a former governor of the state, Chief Lucky Igbinedion, over...
There was drama at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) Thursday, as lawyers representing the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, staged a walk out on the Tribunal...
Prior to assigning portfolios to his ministers designates, and inaugurating the much expected cabinet, the presidency today began a two-day presidential retreat for the 36 ministers-designate...
The Edo state government yesterday gave a detailed revelation of how a former governor in the state allegedly masterminded the stealing of $31m (about N7 billion)...
The Senate was yesterday divided, over a motion to probe the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan on funds expended on the Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment...
The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Wednesday, announced the composition of Senate standing committees, conceding what is the Grade A committees which are regarded as ‘juicy’ to...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) . . . The Nigerian Senate, on Thursday last week concluded the process of screening and confirming the ministerial nominees...
Indications have emerged that a number of heads of government parastatals and agencies who were appointed into office by former President Goodluck Jonathan in the last...
Former governor of Adamawa State, Boni Haruna may have run into troubled waters for standing surety for the former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki,...
President Muhammadu BUhari on Tuesday reaffirmed the stand he had taken in faraway India, that some ministerial nominees who have been confirmed by the Senate would...
In what is believed to have been inspired by the forthcoming governorship elections in the state, a bloody fight was on Tuesday averted in Bayelsa State...
There are indications that President Muhammadu Buhari has begun a head hunt of another Group Managing Director for Nigerian National Petroluem Corporation, just as the current...
After a successful screening and confirmation of the ministerial nominees of President Muhammadu Buhari by the Senate, President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, Tuesday, officially presented...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa . . . Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), Engr. Babachir David Lawal, is struggling with staving off a burgeoning army...
For the second time since leaving office on May 29, former President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday paid a visit to his successor, President Muhammadu Buhari at...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) . . . A former Minister of the Niger Delta Ministry, Elder Godsday Orubebe, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari...
The Presidency on Sunday reacted to a statement issued by the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Olisa Metuh, accusing President Muhammadu Buhari...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari himself has become a clog in the drive to attract investors into the country with...
There was mild drama on Saturday in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State in the run up to the December 5, governorship election in the state as supporters of...
