The Presidency Saturday responded to a call made by a former army chief, Theophilus Danjuma urging Nigerians to defend themselves against herdsmen attacks citing collusion of...
President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to Christians and all Nigerians to imbibe the lessons of Jesus Christ this Easter, and by so doing, make the emphatic...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has responded to Bola Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), over his comment at his colloquium in Lagos...
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, has threatened to arrest and prosecute members of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) over their plan to protest the...
The National Assembly on Wednesday finally passed the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB) after years of failed attempts. The bill was passed by the Senate after...
Dozens of armed police officers have laid siege at the secretariat of the Ikeja branch of the Nigerian Bar Association over the body’s decision to stage...
The government of Taraba State on Tuesday explained how the Federal Government and the military ignored its complaints of security threats and soldiers’ misconduct in the...
The Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria has called on the federal government to prosecute a former minister of defence, Theophilus Danjuma, for calling on Nigerians...
President Muhammadu Buhari, in a surprise move on Tuesday backed Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu who has been in the forefront against tenure elongation for the All...
The Senate in what is apparently a move to veto President Muhammadu Buhari has reintroduced the Bill seeking to amend the Electoral Act 2010. According to...
The national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, was a major absentee on Monday as President Muhammadu Buhari hosted a meeting of the...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday stated that Nigeria’s journey under his watch has been “a very turbulent one”. He made this comment while inaugurating the Food...
The week of March, which began on the 18th and ended on the 24th, turned out to be one of President Muhammadu Buhari’s worst ever. He...
Very prominent Nigerians and groups, among whom are Wole Soyinka, Olisa Agbakoba, Abduljalil Tafawa Balewa and the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), have formed a Grand Political...
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has suggested that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) should be deregistered as a political party for allegedly failing as...
The Presidency has advised the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to stop raising “false alarms in order to gain public sympathy and divert attention from its abysmal...
Paul Arkwright, the United Kingdom High Commissioner to Nigeria, has told Premium Times that his country, or any other Western nation as far as he could...
Famous American billionaire businessman and philanthropist, Bill Gates has said the present economic plan of the Muhammadu Buhari administration cannot address the unique needs of Nigerians....
The Senate on Thursday, rejected the nomination of Dr. Asheikh A. Maidugu as a member of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of...
Leaders from 44 African countries on Wednesday sealed a historic agreement to create a $2.5 trillion continental free trade zone, with Nigeria and South Africa, the...
The 105 girls released by Boko Haram have been flown from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, to Abuja. They were airlifted from the Maiduguri Air Force...
Senators of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) held a meeting on Wednesday. APC Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, was at the...
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed delight over the release of the abducted students of Government Girls Science Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State by...
By Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu The expression of leadership in the current dispensation, from local government levels up to the federal government level, simply say one thing –that...
President Muhammadu Buhari has given ministries, department and agencies till Friday to submit details of their budget estimates to the National Assembly. This is coming five...
There was mild drama in an Abuja Division of the Federal High Court on Tuesday, with proceedings ending without the substantive matter being heard or the...
As plans by both chambers of the National Assembly to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto of the Electoral Amendment Bill 2018, gather steam, a new splinter...
Some Senators are planning to resist the National Assembly’s plot to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto on amendments to the Electoral Act, The Nation has learnt....
Pioneer chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu, says for the commission to improve in its performance, other relevant stakeholders must emulate...
Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has accused a former Chief Judge of Enugu State, Justice Innocent Umezulike, and a presidential aide, Mr. Okoi...
National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has declared that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has no presidential candidate to match President...
President Muhammadu Buhari may have cancelled his plan to attend the extraordinary meeting of African Union Heads of State and Government billed to hold in Kigali,...
Chairman, Board of Trustees (BOT) of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Ango Abdullahi, says those advocating for ranching as the solution to herdsmen-farmers clashes were merely...
The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and Speaker of the House of Representative, Yakubu Dogara, have pledged a common response to President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto of the...
The General Overseer, Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, Friday revealed his reason for delaying visiting Benue State to commiserate with the people over...
Following recent disclosure of the federal government’s plan to establish the National Food Security Council, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the constitution of the council’s membership....
The Senate has been advised to ignore the reasons given by President Muhammadu Buhari for not signing the Electoral Act 2010 Amendment Bill passed by the...
Senators, on Thursday, said Nigeria was gradually itching towards a failed state. They condemned the spate of killings in different parts of the country. Lawmakers made...
The European Union has urged the Federal Government of Nigeria to bring perpetrators of the recurrent clashes between herdsmen and farmers in the country to justice....
The next steps to be followed by the senate have been revealed following President Muhammadu Buhari’s refusal to assent to the amended electoral act sent to...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday summoned the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, to a closed-door meeting. The meeting held Tuesday morning at the Presidential...
At the meeting with stakeholders in Makurdi, Benue State on Monday, leaders spoke their mind to President Muhammadu Buhari. Below are some of the comments from...
One month after the Senate passed an amendment bill of the 2010 Electoral Act, in which they approved the reordering of election sequence, President Muhammadu Buhari...
Rather than stem the tide of killings, the visit of President Muhammadu Buhari seems to have sparked more killings. Few days after the president left Plateau...
The Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, Monday reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s shocking statement in Benue State that he was not aware that Inspector General...
The political crisis brewing in the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Plateau State appears to be escalating as the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Solomon...
The Nigerian Senate has reacted to the revelation made by Shehu Sani, the senator representing Kaduna Central, that each senator received N13 million monthly as “running...
Legal practitioner and rights activist, Femi Falana has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to put an end to the payment of “illegal” salaries and allowances being paid...
Consumers of alcoholic beverages and cigarettes are set to pay more for the products as President Muhammadu Buhari has approved an amendment to the excise duty...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, blamed the negative perception about the President Muhammadu Buhari administration on naysayers spreading false and misleading information on...
