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 All Progressives Congress (APC), in apparent reply to the scathing remarks by the Peoples Democratic Party...
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...
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...
The United States of America has reportedly deployed predator drones over the notorious Sambisa Forest, in North Eastern Nigeria to monitor and gather intelligence reports on...
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...
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,...
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...
In from Smart Ali . . . Echoes of the 2015 presidential election reverberated on Thursday as President Muhammadu Buhari recounted unpleasant tales of activities of...
By Okey Ndibe . . . Forget what the objective facts are, former Governor Diepreye Solomon Peter (DSP) Alamieyeseigha, who died last week at 62 years,...
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...
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 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 Olumide Olaoluwa … . Even though it may have saved his life, the late Diepreye Alamieyeseigha seemed to have preferred to be at home...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa … . The United Kingdom (UK) is no longer a safe haven for looters of African resources and treasury, the UK Minister...
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,...
All Progressives Congress, APC, Deputy National Chairman, North, has disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari would not stop the probe of members of the party, especially the...
Aerosmith frontman, Steven Tyler is asking Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to stop using the power ballad “Dream On” at campaign events. Attorneys for Tyler sent...
Former commissioners who served under former governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi have described as fabrications the reports by the Judicial Commission of Inquiry in that...
A recent report by a national newspaper that national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu may have been put under watch...
By Joseph Edgar … . Immediately PMB was announced winner of the Presidential elections, a rash of Trekkers took over the country. People started walking all...
The much talked about salaries and emoluments of Senators and members of the House of Representatives has finally been officially disclosed. This was as the National...
The National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has faulted protests following his ministerial nomination, insisting that he deserved the ministerial...
Based on the report of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry it set up, the Rivers State government has said it will prosecute former Governor Rotimi Amaechi...
Feelers emanating from the presidency suggest that the intent of Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara to secure political respite from President Muhammadu Buhari...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa … . Ministerial nominees are to appear before the Senate next Tuesday with certificates of assets declaration issued by the Code of...
