The federal high court, Abuja, has ordered the national assembly to suspend actions on the electoral act. President Muhammadu Buhari rejected amendment to the act on Tuesday. In a letter to both chambers of the national assembly, the president said…
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VIGILANTE SERVICE GROUP: SENATE ORDERS INVESTIGATION INTO ALLEGED LAW PASSED BY KOGI STATE
The Nigerian Senate has ordered its Committee on Security, Intelligence and Judiciary to immediately open investigation into an alleged law passed by Kogi State establishing “Vigilante Service Group”. Senate wants the National Security Adviser, Ali Mongunu and the Attorney-General of…
EX-PRESIDENT’S AIDE COUNTERS BUHARI OVER COMMENT ON DAPCHI SCHOOL GIRLS ABDUCTION
A former aide of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s claims in Damaturu, Yobe, that he handled the recent abduction of 110 Dapchi schoolgirls ‘much better’ than Mr. Jonathan treated a similar incident in Chibok in 2014 is…
BUHARI LOSING CHARGE OF SECURITY CHIEFS-PDP
People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has said the failure of Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to relocate to Benue State as ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari, showed that the president was losing control of his security chiefs, even as the Chief…
DIRTY WORK: SARAKI IS USING EKWEREMADU- SEN. ADAMU
Senate President Bukola Saraki is using his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, to carry out assignments which would have been considered ‘too controversial or dirty’ if he had carried them out himself, the senator representing Nasarawa west in the National Assembly, Abdullahi…
NATIONWIDE VISIT: BUHARI ARRIVES MAIDUGURI
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday arrived in Maiduguri as part of nationwide visit to trouble areas in the country. The President is billed to visit Yobe to meet with families of 110 school girls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents at…
BUHARI NOT WAGING HOLISTIC WAR AGAINST CORRUPTION IN THE COUNTRY- ORJI KALU
Former Governor of Abia State and chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, have accused President Muhammadu Buhari of not waging a holistic war against corruption in the country. Kalu dared President Buhari to arrest former President…
CCT JUSTIFIES DECISION TO SUSPEND CASE AGAINST SARAKI
Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, in Abuja, yesterday, justified its decision to suspend further proceedings on the assets falsification charge the Federal Government preferred against the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, saying it was taken in the interest of justice…
HERDSMEN KILLINGS: BUHARI VISITS BENUE, MET WITH EMPTY STREET PROTEST
President Muhammadu Buhari went to Benue state on Monday, March 12, to condole with the people over killings by herdsmen and reassure them that the administration shared in their grief. It was however, reported that the state was in no…
DAPCHI GIRLS WANTED BACK ALIVE- BUHARI TELLS AMERICAN SECRETARY OF STATE, TILLERSON
Nigeria prefers to have schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram from Chibok and Dapchi back alive, and that is why it has chosen negotiation, rather than a military option, says President Muhammadu Buhari. Receiving the American Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson,…