Contrary to reports that Senator Ovie Omo-Agege was arrested after allegedly leading thugs into the Senate chambers to snatch the mace, the Police said the lawmaker was merely escorted out of the National Assembly complex. The Federal Capital Territory Commissioner…
For any well-meaning Nigerian, these are very disturbing times. The orgy of violence visited on some states of the federation, the mass murders of innocent citizens all over the country and the seeming lack of capacity by security agents to…
Prominent indigenes of Ondo State, led by the state Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu,, leader of Yoruba socio- political group, Pa. Reuben Fasoranti, national chairman of Social Democratic Party (SDP), Chief Oluyemi Falae and immediate past governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko are…
Reno Omokri, former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, says President Muhammadu Buhari’s comments that Nigerian youth are lazy are illogical. Omokri said contrary to the president’s comments, young Nigerians are hardworking and enterprising. Buhari had made the statement on Wednesday…
President Muhammadu Buhari has said many Nigerian youths hate hardwork, waiting to get free oil money. Buhari said this while speaking at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Westminster on Wednesday. He stressed that a lot of them have not been…
The leading opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will today hold an emergency National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in Abuja. The meeting scheduled to hold at the party’s secretariat by 2pm. Although the agenda of the meeting was not stated,…
The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, ruled Nigeria for sixteen years. It is the largest party ever to have ruled Nigeria and tagged itself as “the largest party in Africa”. At the height of its glory PDP controlled 26 states after…
The All Progressives Congress(APC) in Kwara state has suspended a former member of the House of Representatives and gubernatorial hopeful in the 2019 polls, Alhaji Moshood Mustapha. The embattled aspirant, who has been linked with a defection to the Peoples…
The Senate plenary was on Wednesday at 11:15am, disrupted after suspected thugs invaded the chamber and made away with the mace. The plenary had been disrupted while the sergeants-at-arms are battling with the men to retrieve the mace. Deputy President…
The Senate has stepped down the Electoral Act 2010 Amendment Bill which seeks to reshuffle the sequence of polls in a general election. The bill, which was considered for second reading, suffered a setback when several lawmakers across party lines…