Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday, October 6, 2015, unveiled the much-awaited partial list of ministerial nominees sent to the Senate by President Muhammadu Buhari. The list was forwarded to the Senate as required by the Nigerian Constitution. The Senate is expected to screen the nominees and sent names of those confirmed by the red…
A suspected financial of the Boko Haram sect has been arrested by troops fighting the terrorist organisation in Bama, Bama Local Government Area of Borno State. The Defence Headquarters disclosed on Tuesday that the suspect, Mohammed Maina, who doubles as a stimulant dealer for the insurgents, was intercepted and arrested by the troops. Maina is…
The Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Makurdi, Benue State capital, has upheld the victory of former Senate President, David Mark, in the senatorial district poll held in March 2015. The Tribunal struck out a petition filed by Comrade Daniel Onjeh of the All Progressives Congress, APC, challenging the victory of Mark. Mark contested the election…
Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday, October 6, 2015, finally read out names of the ministerial nominees sent to him by President Muhammadu Buhari. Saraki unveiled the list to his colleague on the floor during plenary on Tuesday. The list was delivered to the Senate President by Buhari last Wednesday evening on September 30, 2015…
Reports reaching us from the United Kingdom indicate that the immediate past Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Maduekwe, is yet to show herself up at the Charing Cross Police Station. Diezani was arrested on Friday by the International Unit of the National Crime Agency for alleged bribery and corruption. She was granted bail by the…
Radical Islamic sect, Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for Friday night’s bomb blasts that occurred in Kuje and Nyanya areas of Abuja, Nigeria’s seat of power. The group, which pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, ISIS, in early 2015 through a video released by the sect leader, said its members carried out the attack that…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State has warned the Acting National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, to leave former Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, alone or it would be forced to expose him. Rivers APC made the warning in a statement signed on Sunday in Port Harcourt by the…
President Muhammadu Buhari victims of Friday night’s bomb explosions in Kuje and Nyanya areas of Abuja on Sunday. Buhari was at the Trauma Centre of the National Hospital in Abuja, where the survivors are receiving treatments. According to a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi…
Former Minister of National Planning in the immediate past government of Goodluck Jonathan, Abubakar Sulaiman, has reacted to comments credited governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, claiming that the former president spent billions of Naira to celebrate Nigeria’s Independence while in government. In a press statement issued on Sunday to debunk the claims, Sulaiman said…
Some drugs were given out on Saturday to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Adamawa by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC. Director-General of the agency, Paul Orhii, during the presentation at the Malkohi camp, said NAFDAC made this gesture because of its concern to the plight of the people.…