Nigerian Senate will on Wednesday, July 24, begin screening and confirmation of the 43 ministerial nominees sent to it by President Muhammadu Buhari. This was disclosed...
See full list below: 1. Abia – Uchechukwu Samson Ogah 2. Adamawa – Mohammed Musa Bello 3. Akwa Ibom – Godswill Akpabio 4. Anambra – Dr...
A call has been made to Igbo living in the North and herdsmen living in the South to remain at their duty posts and not panic,...
President Muhammadu Buhari has submitted his long -awaited list of ministerial nominees to the Senate. Prominent among those nominated include former Akwa Ibom State governor, Godswill...
The presidency on Tuesday threw its weight behind the approach by the Nigerian Police on containing protesting members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, who went...
There are indications that President Muhammadu Buhari has sent his ministerial list to the Senate for confirmation. The speculations gained more prominence as the Senate went...
The South-West Governors’ Forum has lamented the rising spate of insecurity in the region following reported kidnappings and killings by herdsmen. The group admitted that it...
A former senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has blamed President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government for the crisis between the Shiites group and the Nigerian Police...
Coming for Buhari Determined. Unrelenting. Nigerian Shi’ites appear determined to extract justice from the Nigerian state in respect of its incarcerated leader, Sheikh Ibrahim Yaqoub El-Zakzaky....
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has added his voice to the growing calls for the release of El Zakzaky, the leader of the Islamic Movement...
A Bauchi State High Court on Monday, issued an order of interim injunction, asserting that the present speaker and deputy speaker, Abubakar Suleiman and Danlami Kawule,...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reacted to a protest reportedly staged at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja by the Senator-elect for Imo North Senatorial...
The Generalissimo of Yoruba land, Gani Adams, on Monday warned President Muhammadu Buhari that ignoring the advice from former President Olusegun Obasanjo on the security situation...
A former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu on Monday opened his defence in an alleged N7.6 billion fraud trial involving himself, and two others...
The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has responded to the letter by the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, over the insecurity situation in the nation. The...
A former lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, has said that northerners are tolerating President Muhammadu Buhari’s ‘bad governance’ because he is from the region. Sani, who represented...
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has hailed the refusal of the Supreme Court to reverse its judgment on the participation of the candidates of the All...
A Kaduna State High Court sitting in Kaduna has been told that the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, and his...
The Federal Government and labour have bickered over delays in the implementation of the new National Minimum Wage, as the Head of Service of the Federation,...
The Ondo State government has ordered the arrest of members of the unauthorized group claiming to belong to the Fulani Vigilante in the state. The state...
Human rights lawyer, Kayode Ajulo, has clarified that he was not stopped by Fulani herdsmen at a checkpoint in Ondo State. He explained that he voluntarily...
The Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) has released an official statement on the clash with the police in Abuja earlier on Monday. The sect claimed that...
A spiritual leader, Satguru Maharaj Ji, on Monday advised President Muhammadu Buhari on how best to tackle insecurity in the country. He asked the president to...
A Deputy Commissioner of Police attached to the Federal Capital Territory Police Command, Umar Usman has reportedly been confirmed dead following a clash that occurred between...
A petition filed by Hope Democratic Party (HDP) and its presidential candidate in the last election, Ambrose Owuru against President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives...
Borno State Government on Monday received no less than 151 former Boko Haram terrorists from the Nigeria Army for rehabilitation and re-integration into the society. Maj.-Gen....
The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Birnin-Kebbi, the Kebbi State capital, on Monday dismissed the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) challenging the...
Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has been accused by a former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice under the Donald Duke administration of making his...
The bishop of the Akure Diocese of the Anglican Church, Simeon Borokini, on Monday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to do something to address insecurity in...
A date has been fixed for the trial of Nigerian senator, Elisha Abbo, who allegedly assaulted a nursing mother in Abuja. A Zuba Chief Magistrates’ Court...
Senator-elect, Benjamin Uwajumogu, and his supporters on Monday stormed the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC’s) office in Abuja to protest the commission’s denial to issue him...
The immediate past Minister of State for Agriculture, Sen. Heineken Lokpobiri, on Monday expressed concerns over the process to be adopted by All Progressive Congress (APC)...
Two people were reportedly killed on Monday in a clash that ensued from the protest of the members of Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), popularly known...
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, on Monday, fixed Aug. 23, for the adoption of final written address in the suit filed by the Hope Democratic Party...
The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Crimes Commission (ICPC), Bolaji Owasanoye, has said that an estimated N2 trillion was spent on constituency...
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an application requesting it to review its earlier stance on stopping the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidates in...
The Presidency has attacked Nigerians accusing President Muhammadu Buhari of doing nothing to checkmate the ever growing insecurity situation in Nigeria. Apparently unhappy, over floods of...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Sunday said President Muhammadu Buhari was not showing sincerity in his fight against corruption, especially as he has...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Sunday said that true Christians are called to love and pray for their enemies and those who persecute them. He stated...
The leader of a Fulani ethnic organisation, Gan-Allah Fulani Development Association of Nigeria (GAFDAN), Alhaji Saleh Bayeri, on Sunday claimed that kidnapping, banditry and other vices...
Governorship aspirants under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State have been warned to desist from using perceived rift between former President...
An aide to Governo Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed of Bauchi State has called on the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, to be fair in...
A former Kaduna State governor, Balarabe Musa, and human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), on Sunday, advised Nigerians to hold President Muhammadu Buhari responsible for...
President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan, weekend decried the deplorable state of Nigerian roads, saying he has heard a lot about their poor state. Lawan, who...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, in his recent open letter, of July 15, 2019, to President Muhammadu, proposed a national dialogue where Nigerians will come together and...
The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, has warned that there is looming anarchy in the land if the siege on Yorubaland by herdsmen and kidnappers...
The Sokoto chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC),on Sunday raised the alarm that further inclusion of the expelled APC North West Vice Chairman, Mr Inuwa Abdulkadir,...
Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, has condemned calls by some northern political elders asking herdsmen to leave the southern part of the country. Ganduje described the...
Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Odigie Oyegun, has accused his successor, Adams Oshiomhole, of fuelling the crisis in Edo State. According...
The national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has revealed his solution to insecurity in the country. Tinubu spoke in Lagos while attending...