In a meeting of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Senate Caucus in the National Assembly some lawmakers decided to end the meeting with a wrestling show over Senate leadership positions. The turn of events ended the meeting abruptly.
The crisis between NASS and the All Progressives Congress (APC) is going deeper than expected and unresolved but the State Governors have decided to step in. They expressed concern over the ongoing leadership crisis in the National Assembly and have therefore decided to invite their senators and prevail on them on the need to respect... Read More
Bank robbery is currently occurring in Ogolonto, around Ikorodu axis, Lagos. The Nigerian Police are already there trying to avert the situation. Citizens have been advised to stay clear of that axis. Our officers are responding to armed robbery at #Ogolonto, Ikorodu Lagos. Citizens are advised to stay off vicinity. #NPFalert #NPFtraffic — Nigeria Police... Read More
Governor of Osun state, Rauf Aregbesola has been making the news lately due to his inability to pay salaries, PDP asking him to sell the state helicopter to pay, and him being unperturbed about it. An Osun State judge, Justice Oloyede Folahanmi is coming for him and as such called on the state House of... Read More
Unlike every other person who kept quiet about the last minute appointments did by Jonathan’s administration, former provost Marshal of the Nigerian Army, Idada Ikpomnwen, isn’t going to keep quiet about it. Idada on Wednesday warned President Muhammadu Buhari to review the last minute appointments made by Jonathan, saying that such appointments infringe on the... Read More
Benue lawmakers turns the assembly chambers into fighting ring. YNaija Governors advises senators to adopt APC decision. The Nation Melaye says Kogi people gave him his victory. Leadership GEJ ministers says PMB lied about empty treasury. YNaija Boko Haram attacks again, kills 40 in Borno villages. Leadership Buhari vows to recover all stolen funds. Vanguard... Read More
Following President Muhammadu Buhari’s order on Monday that all checkpoints by the military should be withdrawn nationwide, the Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, said he has deployed additional 138 police patrol vehicles to fill the vacuum that has been created. Arase, who stated this on Tuesday in Abuja at a workshop on improving police response to... Read More
Bukola Saraki has heard all your cries. To this end, the Senate President, on Tuesday, disclosed that arrangements have been concluded for the set up of an ad-hoc committee that will reevaluate the structure of the National Assembly budget. Saraki, who disclosed this in his welcome address at the resumed plenary by the senators, urged all senators to... Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had a meeting behind closed doors with all state governors. The meeting, which is the first of its kind since Buhari’s inauguration, ended with a resolution to end the financial crisis being faced by some state governments.. It was held inside the Council Chambers of the Presidential... Read More
The All Progressive Congress (APC) has defended Governor Rauf Aregbesola against the attack by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that he should sell the state’s surveillance helicopter to pay salaries. The Chairman of the APC in Osun State, Gboyega Famodun, has restated that Aregbesola will not sell the state helicopter to pay salaries of public workers.... Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had a meeting behind closed doors with all 36 state governors. The meeting, which was held inside the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, is the first of its kind since Buhari’s inauguration. Punch reported that the meeting ended with a resolution to end the financial crisis... Read More
As Senators resume today from their two-week recess, principal officers who will run the affairs of the red chambers would emerge today. In light of this, job seekers invaded the premises of the National Assembly since Monday. Even members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) were also seen rushing to make photocopies of their posting letters... Read More
The outgoing chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Attahiru Jega, has lamented the lack of internal party democracy in Nigeria. He stated that the trend, which encourages substitutions of candidates after primaries by political parties, created an enormous burden for the commission during the just concluded 2015 general elections. Jega, who spoke in Abuja... Read More
Don urges Nigerians to protest legislators fat salaries. ThisDay Civil servants admits to squandering salaries on irrelevant things. Vanguard Okah says Amaechi’s claim of witch hunt is mischievous. ThisDay Here is the reason Buhari picked Femi Adesina as special adviser. YNaija PDP governors unite ahead of meeting with Buhari. ThisDay MEND threatens to resume militant... Read More
The Nigeria Police inability to provide adequate security in the country is a thing of concern and this has made a former Chairman of the Nigerian chapter of Transparency International, Ishola Williams, to say that the Nigeria police is still operating on its 1949 structure, hence its inability to provide security for elections in the... Read More
Since his inauguaration as Senate President, Bukola Saraki met with the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Odigie-Oyegun. Saraki and other senators, including Ahmed Lawan, who is the preferred candidate of the APC, were in attendance at the meeting at the home of Oyegun on Monday.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo alongside President Muhammadu Buhari also moved into his office in Aso rock Monday.
Just like most people in the country who are frustrated and pissed with the alleged jumbo salaries of legislators, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) is also angry and has decided to do something about it. The group has threatened to resume militant activities if members of the National Assembly receive... Read More
Apparently everything isn’t going the way of the deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu as a pan-Igbo group based in the United Kingdom, Concerned Diaspora Enugu West, has urged the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, to step down immediately. According to a statement by its convener, Ignatius Ozoilo, Ekweremadu had been the Deputy Senate President... Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari has moved into the presidential villa and today is his first day in the office. Today the president went into a meeting with service chiefs who arrived the villa shortly after he got in. This would be the second time that Buhari would be meeting with the service chiefs since he assumed... Read More
Apparently, nobody wants to part with their money — not even for the benefit of the community or even the country. If we have our way, nobody will pay tax and over the years individuals and even companies have evaded tax. Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Company Limited (NLNG) has been reported to have paid its... Read More
According to a report by Premium Times, the President is appointing the VP’s spokesperson. President Muhammadu Buhari is set to name a former North American Bureau Chief of The Guardian, Laolu Akande, as a Senior Special Assistant to lead the media and communication unit in the office of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, PREMIUM TIMES can... Read More
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, to suspend his plans to create additional 39 Local Council Development Areas. The Director of Media and Strategy of the PDP in Osun State, Diran Odeyemi, disclosed this in a statement in Osogbo on Sunday. Punch reports that according to PDP, the present... Read More
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Attahiru Jega, has finally cleared the air on rumors that made the rounds before and after the 2015 elections saying he was never threatened or told to proceed on leave or retire by anybody or authority. He added that his security aides were never withdrawn contrary to... Read More
BBOG group wants Buhari to assess IDPs camps. Leadership Atiku pledges loyalty to Buhari. YNaija Dogara tells how Sultan, God helped him win. Leadership Amaechi pissed, says Wike is an artiste. YNaija Falana threatens to drag FRSC to court if they don’t prosecute owners of exploded tankers. ThisDay Oyegun says Dickson received N440 billion and... Read More
The governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano has ambition for his state and given a clue to his ambition. He said he plans to build an ultramodern millionaire’s city that will reflect the proud heritage of Ndi Anambra as the home of the greatest number of billionaires in Nigeria. Speaking while inspecting three flyovers that... Read More
Musician, Godwin crooner, Korede Bello says if he gets invited to church to perform he would do it again. Bello, who disclosed this on today’s episode of Rubbin Minds on Channels TV said he sees Godwin as a God song and don’t know why he can’t perform it in church. “Godwin is God’s song, I was... Read More
I remember when growing up I would have a stomach upset or headache or something as silly as a slight scratch on my arm. I would cry to my mother and she’d always have the solution to soothe me – the bitter agbo that is always hidden under the under or behind the standing mirror. The concoction (agbo) every mother has readily... Read More
Government leaders are really making frantic efforts to adapt to the economy crisis happening in the country as the Kano state Governor; Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has slashed the salaries and allowances of all political officer holders by 50 per cent. Ganduje said the measure was necessary in view of the dwindling oil revenue from the... Read More
The growing rivalry between the military and the department of security services (DSS) on who should be in charge of the security department of the Presidency is growing deeper as the DSS is not going down without a fight and it is creating tension. There is an unhealthy rivalry between over 200 military officers and... Read More
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