Lawmakers in both chambers of the National Assembly are set to take on the Executive over the withdrawal of $496 million (N151.4 billion) from the Excess Crude Account (ECA) for the procurement of 12 Super Tucano aircraft from the…
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INEC DENIES CREATING ADDITIONAL POLLING UNITS
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has denied creating 30,000 additional polling units in order to compromise the 2019 general elections. National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party`s (PDP), Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, on Friday alleged that INEC was planning to create…
FRESH TROUBLE BREWS IN THE RULING PARTY
Barely three weeks to the national convention of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, on May 14, it’s 24 governors and other national leaders remain polarized over their struggle to control the party’s structure ahead of the 2019 general elections. Following…
2019 ELECTIONS: SARAKI SHOULD COME OUT AND CONTEST – PRIMATE AYODELE
The General overseer of Inri Evangelical Church worldwide, Primate Babatunde Elijah Ayodele has called on the Nigeria’s Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki to contest the 2019 Presidential Election in order to bring the nation to the part of progress. The…
BUHARI DID NOT CALL ALL NIGERIAN YOUTHS LAZY – PRESIDENCY
The Presidency has clarified President Muhammadu Buhari’s comments on Nigerian youths at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Westminster, London on Wednesday, insisting that he never said they were all lazy. It said that Buhari only made reference to “a lot…
STOLEN MACE: POLICE DENIES ARRESTING OMO-AGEGE
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…
NIGERIAN YOUTHS ARE LAZY?: JONATHAN’S FORMER AIDE DISAGREES WITH BUHARI
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…
MANY NIGERIAN YOUTHS HATE HARDWORK – BUHARI
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…
THUGS STORM SENATE CHAMBER
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…
ELECTORAL AMENDMENT BILL: SENATE STEPS DOWN
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…