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...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) … . The United Kingdom has re-affirmded its commitment to helping Nigeria overcome the Boko Haram insurgency by December. This...
As the Senate prepares to start the screening of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nominees next week Tuesday, some of the nominees have started reaching out to...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) The decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to take charge of the Petroleum Resources Ministry has drawn the ire of two...
Fresh moves to extradite ex- governor, Diepreye Alamieyesiegha to the United Kingdom is generating serious tension in Bayelsa State. Already, many socio-political organisations have described the...
In what seems like a shifting of ground and a product of the fence mending moves of Speaker Yakubu Dogara, the leadership of both the Senate...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) … . It was another rancorous time at the Senate on Wednesday, as Senators elected on the platform of the...
Four years after Chris McCann’s previous prediction that the world would end on 21 May 2011, the weird preacher made another startling prediction yesterday. After the...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa … . Twenty four hours after four local government chairmen in the state were suspended from office, Chairman of Akoko-Edo Local Government...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital)… . The Federal Government has ordered all government agencies to join the Integrated Personnel and Payment Information System, IPIS, adding...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa … . Those hoping the richest African, Aliko Dangote will join politics should bury the thought. The multi-billionaire on Tuesday said that...
By Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital)… . Last week’s Friday arrest of the immediate past Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, came to many as a surprise,...
Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole has said that he is not surprised by the recent arrest of former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke by...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews … . Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde has lamented that tracing looted funds and assets...
By Joseph Edgar … . Ok, we have finally caught her and I hear the sums are mind boggling. The sum of $13billion has been bandied...
in from Timothy Enietan-Matthews … . Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Tuesday, officially read out the list of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nominees. The list was read...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa … Following her arrest and release on bail, British authorities kept people guessing when Nigeria’s former minister of petroleum resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke...
Unlike in the case of former President Olusegun Obasanjo who appropriated the portfolio of petroleum minister to himself witout approval from any quarters, the Senate yesterday...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa … . Confident that he is on the list of ministerial nominees as Oyo State candidate, Barr Adebayo Shittu, has commenced moves...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews … . The National Crime Agency of the United Kingdom on Monday secured the seizure of the sum of £27,000 (N8,155,164.37) from...
Indications have emerged that former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke may not appear at London Magistrate Court, Monday, as earlier speculated. Alison-Madueke was arrested in London on...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has debunked claims by the Kaduna State governor, Nasir el’Rufai that his administration expended a total of N64 billion to finance the...
A civil rights organisation, Peace Network Initiative, on Sunday said it had uncovered a plot to rig the forthcoming governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa States....
Indications emerged on Sunday that a fresh crisis is engulfing the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State over the choice of who becomes the deputy...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) As the people of Kogi State prepare for the November 21 governorship election in the state, tension has continued to...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) … Information reaching Ripples suggests that operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) who stormed the Frederick Chiluba,...
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that to fully eradicate the menace of the Boko Haram sect from the country, Nigeria must learn from the experience of...
Timothy Enietan-Matthews, (Nation’s capital) The anti-corruption war of President Muhammadu Buhari may have caught up with a major big fish, as there are indications that the...
The presidency, Thursday, insisted that the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to preside over the Ministry of Petroleum, was borne out of his desire to bring...
The leadership crisis rocking the National Assembly may be far from being over, as the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Thursday, raised the alarm that...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) The much awaited ministerial list of President Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday, finally arrived the Senate, albeit the office of the Senate...
By Sam Ibemere … The very long wait is over! It came to an end Wednesday, September 30, 2015. On that day, on a very sober...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa … Officials of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) will have to explain to the House of Representatives why the N6.5billion Ayetoro...
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) is no doubt keen on getting to the roots of a wanted ISIS chief, Ahmed Al Assir got a visa to...
As part of activities to mark the Nigeria’s 55th Independence anniversary, there was an independence parade anniversary at the Presidential Villa Abuja. It was attended by...
Nigerians who have eagerly been waiting to experience the changes promised by President Muhammadu Buhari during electioneering may not have to wait any longer as the...
2In from Olumide Olaoluwa … The next presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will emerge from the north. The party however did not state...
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has again, admonished President Muhammadu Buhari to beam his anti-corruption search light on all the past administrations, in order to prove...
Destiny cannot be changed. This popular saying aptly applies to the case of the former Balyesa State governor, Timipre Sylva, who after the nullification of his...
Senate president, Olusola Saraki, may still be facing ‘a long walk to freedom’ as the High Court judge who granted an order to halt his trial...