The House of Representatives despite efforts from lawmakers to save the Peace Corps Bill, finally killed it after a two-hour long debate. The bill which was initially rejected by President Muhammadu Buhari who cited security and paucity reasons couldn’t…
As controversy continues to trail the ward, local government and state congresses of All Progressives Congress, APC, in many states of the federation, President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, had a closed-door meeting with Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State and the…
The Hilary Eke-led Imo state chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, executive has been forced out of the party secretariat by forces loyal to Governor Rochas Okorocha. Okorocha’s parallel executive headed by Chris Oguoma, occupied the office of the…
Ekiti state House of Assembly Animasaun Adesina, representing Ekiti west Constituency 11 was elected as deputy speaker to replace the impeached deputy speaker. Likewise, the member representing Ekiti South West constituency 1 Onigiobi Olawale was appointed as the new Chief…
The Federal High Court in Benin has ordered that the Chairman of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo, Chief Dan Orbih, be remanded in prison custody if he failed to perfect his bail. The court had on Thursday granted the…
The Presidency said yesterday that former President Olusegun Obasanjo is angry with President Muhammadu Buhari because “Buhari is fixing Nigeria with improved power supply and OBJ (Obasanjo) is angry” In a tweet yesterday, Special Assistant to the President on social…
Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka has advised the Federal Government to solicit the support of the international community to combat insecurity in the country. Soyinka spoke yesterday in Makurdi. He was in the Benue State capital for the 35th anniversary…
In what looked like a repeat of the April 18 incident at the Senate, the mace of the Gombe State House of Assembly was yesterday stolen during plenary. The legislative symbol of authority was snatched during a sitting to remove…
There are strong indications that the last-ditch attempt to settle the rift between the defunct nPDP and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) arising from complaints of the former of marginalisation and maltreatment of its members by the leadership of…