The death of the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prince Abubakar Audu and the directive by the electoral umpire to the party to...
Against a backdrop of agitations by senators of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for President Muhammadu Buhari to be summoned to the Red Chambers to explain...
By Joseph Edgar . . . Here I am on very unfamiliar grounds. I am not a constitutional lawyer and as such remain incompetent in this...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) . . . The All Progressives Congress (APC} Tuesday said it would organise a fresh primary election to choose a...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has called on the All Progressives Congress (APC) to nominate another candidate to replace Prince Abubakar Audu, its candidate in...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) . . . President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday in Tehran, Iran, said many public officers who looted the country’s treasury...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews . . . The governor of Kogi State, Capt. Idris Ichala Wada has directed sacked government chairman and counselors to resume office...
The sudden demise of the Kogi State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Prince Abubakar Audu, has thrown up not just a constitutional crisis...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa . . . Chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are at sea over the party’s governorship flag bearer in Kogi State...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews and Olumide Olaoluwa . . . History was in the making on Sunday and had things gone smoothly, Prince Audu Abubakar, governorship...
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in yesterday’s election in Kogi State, Abubakar Audu is dead. Although details of his death are still...
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi State inclusive. INEC said it arrived at the verdict, after the number of...
In from Stanley Azuakola . . . The three weeks permission granted by the Federal High Court in Abuja for the former national security adviser, Sambo...
Although official collation of results is expected to start at 6am today, early results coming from the fields in the Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi State,...
Although the Senate committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petition has received a petition against Chairman, Code of Conduct Tribunal, Danladi Umar, the committee says would...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews . . . The much awaited Kogi State governorship election has come at last and in a few hours, voting will commence...
By Okey Ndibe . . . Had ISIS not shocked the world by sponsoring a spree of deadly attacks at six locations in Paris last Friday,...
In from Stanley Azuakola . . . With the global crash of crude oil prices in the international market, Nigeria’s revenue has been adversely affected with...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has denied claims by his former National Security adviser that he (Jonathan) approved contracts for procurement of arms to Nigeria’s military to...
As the people of Kogi State go the polls tomorrow to elect a new governor, the exercise may just be another mass movement of different forces...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) . . . The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Thursday, lambasted government owned media outlets, saying, that...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’ capital) . . . When Dino Melaye, Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, was announced winner of the March 28 election,...
In from Ali Smart . . . To say the Treasury Single Account (TSA) policy of the federal government has generated much controversy as well as...
The Federal Government, on Tuesday, set up a 16-member committee to review the structure of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in the aftermath of the recent...
Obviously disturbed by the amount of condemnation that has trailed the decision of the Senate to probe the management of the Treasury Single Account and the...
The Chairman of the Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chief Dan Orbih has revealed that of the about One Trillion Naira generated...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa . . . Speculations are rife that Cross Rivers State governor, Ben Ayade, and his Akwa Ibom State counterpart, Udom Emmanuel may...
The governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, Friday, called on Nigerians to hold President Muhammadu Buhari responsible if anything bad happens to the former National Security...
Following allegations over the years that civil servants form the bulk of corrupt practices in government, and that they are sometime indifferent in carrying out their...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews . . . The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that it has been vindicated with what has been happening since the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews . . . The simmering crisis in the House of Representatives came to the fore again on Monday, as Majority Leader, Femi...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
