The U.S. Government has announced 102 million dollars (about 3.7 billion naira) in additional humanitarian assistance for Nigeria to address the sufferings of people affected by the Boko Haram insurgency. The U.S. Department of State said the fund would be used…
The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has announced that he has sent a response to a letter by Nigeria police on their investigation into the Offa bank robbery. He made this announcement on his Twitter handle @bukolasaraki on Thursday. “In line…
Foremost human rights lawyer and pro-democracy campaigner, Femi Falana (SAN) has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s recognition of June 12 as the new Democracy Day in the country. Buhari had made the announcement in a statement he personally signed and…
The Senate, the House of Representatives, Taraba, Ekiti and Benue state governments on Wednesday berated the Minister of Defence, Maj.Gen. Musur Dan-Ali (retd.), for calling on state governments to suspend their anti-open grazing laws, describing the call as illegal. While…
Nigeria has been ranked the 16th least peaceful country in the world, according to the 2018 edition of Global Peace Index, GPI. The report, released yesterday, ranked Nigeria 148 out of the total 163 countries surveyed. Nigeria Iceland is the…
A human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), has warned against politicizing the case of the suspects arrested in connection with the recent dastardly Offa, Kwara State, bank robberies, where many people were killed. Rather, he said the state must…
There was a mild drama at the plenary on Wednesday when the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, read the cover letter by President Muhammadu Buhari on an executive bill. Reading out the letter to members, the mention of “transmission”…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday directed that the nation’s Democracy Day will, henceforth, hold on June 12 of every year as against the current arrangement where the ceremony holds on May 29. Buhari also resolved to honour the winner of…
There is trouble for Nigerians seeking asylum in Germany as the German government is set to deport close to 30,000 of them. The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Diaspora and Foreign Affairs, Hon. Abike Dabiri Erewa disclosed…
In what can be described as unprecedented and a deft move to preserve the sanctity of the Parliament and save the legislators from humiliation by certain agents of state and appointees of the executive, the National Assembly, on Wednesday, threatened…