The Senate which had earlier suspended plenary abruptly on Tuesday without reason after it screened two ministerial nominees has announced that its plenary has been suspended...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa . . . Political expediency, desire for immediate impact and intricate needs for balancing influenced President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nominees, Ripples can...
In what is being viewed as a ploy to elongate the process of the screening of nominees for ministerial appointments, the Senate on Monday adjourned sitting...
Feelers from the Senate plenary have revealed that only three ministerial nominees are slated for screening during plenary today. According to the Senate order paper, only...
By Olumide Olaoluwa … A secret meeting took place on Monday between Speaker Yakubu Dogara and some of the ministerial nominees of President Muhammadu Buhari. The...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa . . . The power play and intrigue in the Bayelsa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) could give way...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) . . . Barring any last minute change, the Senate will Tuesday, screen former Governor Rotimi Amaechi as a ministerial...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) . . . The immediate past governor of Kebbi State, Usman Dakingari has been reportedly arrested by the Economic and...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) . . . The court of Appeal, sitting in Abuja has adjourned indefinitely judgment in the suit instituted by Senate...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) . . . The All Progressives Congress (APC), in apparent reply to the scathing remarks by the Peoples Democratic Party...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews . . . The governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states and other legislative elections ordered by various election tribunals across the...
The move by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to ascertain the truth concerning allegations of fraud against former Akwa Ibom State governor, Godswill Akpabio has...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State, has raised the alarm over the transfer of the State Commissioner of Police saying it is part of...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital). . . As the race to the Lugard House, Kogi State Government House, heats up, the political environment in the...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) . . . The Akwa Ibom State government has risen in stout defence of the embattled former governor of the...
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has made it clear that he does not care what critics think or feel about him in terms of their...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) . . . The embattled former governor of Akwa Ibom State and Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, was again, a...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) . . . The news of the arrest or in his words ‘invitation’ by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...
Former Governor of Akwa Ibom State and Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, who was interrogated and released by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday,...
Following the delay by the Senate to screen him as a ministerial nominee, as a result of a petition against him, the former Rivers State governor,...
As reported by Ripples Nigeria on September 16, 2015, that former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, and incumbent Senate Minority leader, Senator Godswil Akpabio might be arrested...
Justice Moore Adumein of the Court of Appeal, sitting in Abuja on Friday adjourned ruling on the appeal brought by Senate President, Bukola Saraki to Monday,...
Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson has exonerated himself from reports that he was partly responsible for the deepening crisis between the governorship candidate of the All...
Cracks have emerged within the rank of the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the quest by top politicians in the North-east to fill...
Following the second list of names of ministerial nominees sent to the Senate by President Muhammadu Buhari, a number of Nigerians have expressed opposition to some...
In from Ali Smart . . . The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) and the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA)...
In from Smart Ali . . . Echoes of the 2015 presidential election reverberated on Thursday as President Muhammadu Buhari recounted unpleasant tales of activities of...
In spite of the petition against the nomination of former River State governor, Rotimi Amaechi for ministerial appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari, the Senate on Thursday...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews . . . There are indications that the Senate may have received a court order purportedly stopping the screening of the immediate...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) . . . The Nigerian Senate, after two days of screening President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nominees, has postponed continuation of...
President Muhammadu BUhari was yesterday presented with his National Identity Card by a team from the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) led by the Director-General Mr....
In from Olumide Olaoluwa . . . The 2015 general elections were marred by violence and abuse of incumbency, the European Union (EU) Election Observation Mission...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa . . . More indications have emerged that Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government in the country will soon be streamlined to...
The House of Representatives has set machinery in motion to investigate the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan’s railway project between 2010 and 2014. The lawmakers have...
The Nigerian Senate Wednesday confirmed 18 of the ministerial nominees sent to it by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Senate President, Bukola Saraki made the announcement at...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) … . The much expected screening of the ministerial nominees of President Muhammadu Buhari kicked off in earnest yesterday with...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) … . The immediate past governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola, was Wednesday thrown off balance while fielding questions...
President Muhammadu Buhari has withdrawn the nomination of the immediate past Deputy Governor of Niger State, Alhaji Ahmed Musa Ibeto as a ministerial nominee. Senate President,...
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Nigeria is at a period of monumental challenges, and that tough choices need to be made, even though he noted...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) … . It was drama galore Tuesday at the Red Chamber of the National Assembly, as the Senate screened President...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) … . It was a smooth sail for Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, Chief Audu Ogbe and Dr. Ogbonanya Onu but...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews … . The ministerial screening and confirmation of former Lagos State governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, may turn out to be mere formality...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa … . Colombian security experts on Monday shared their experiences in combating terrorism with President Muhammadu Buhari. This was at a meeting...
What was generally viewed as political bantering between two sides has turned into a legal matter as the spokesperson for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)...
Feelers have emerged on those who were nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari as ministers in a second list sent to the Senate yesterday, 12 days after...
President Muhammadu Buhari has sent in the second batch of ministerial nominees list. The list was delivered to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, by the same...
Former governor of Rivers State, and ministerial nominee, Rotimi Amaechi on Monday scaled the screening of the senate committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public petitions when...
Following the grilling of the immediate past Commissioner of Finance in Benue State, Mr. Omadachi Oklobia, last Friday, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) … . Indications have emerged that one of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nominees, Hajia Amina Mohammed, may be screened...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) … . The death of a former governor of Bayelsa State, Chief DSP Alamiesighia on Friday, the 10th of October,...
