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The Senate has received the 33-item report on the fourth review of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria. The report tabled at the Red Chambers proposes amendments which include reducing the powers of the FG in the exclusive legislative list, financial autonomy for local government and state legislature; and downward review of the minimum age for... Read More
Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo is reportedly going to swear in two ministerial nominees, Stephen Ocheni and Suleiman Hassan tomorrow. The ministers-designate were appointed to take over the Labour and Environment ministries. [Read also: The Presidency has finally announced the names of new ministerial nominees] This comes in four months after the Presidency finally found replacements for the... Read More
Heavy rains in New Orleans cause flooding that saw entire streets and cars submerged with rainwater. The New Orleans’ emergency preparedness Twitter account, @nolaready, said the system was ‘nearly stationary’ over a large portion of the Uptown and Central Business District neighborhoods, with up to an inch of rain expected to fall. Several inches of rain in... Read More
Troops of 233 Battalion, 27 Task Force Brigade of Operation LAFIYA DOLE  On Monday July 25, in conjunction with vigilantes on routine patrol arrested 4 confirmed fleeing Boko Haram terrorists at Kurnari village and Nayinawa, outskirts of Damaturu, Yobe State. This was confirmed in a statement by Army spokesman, Brigadier General Sani Kukasheka Usman saying... Read More
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General TY Buratai, has today July 25, 2017, approved the special promotion of 6,199 soldiers serving in Operation LAFIYA DOLE to various ranks between Lance Corporals to Warrant Officers in the Nigerian Army. The breakdown of the beneficiaries of the special promotion are as follows: 1. Staff Sergeants... Read More
The Lagos State Government, through the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture, commenced the remodeling of Late Chief Gani Fawehinmi and Late Chief MKO Abiola statues into a new but bigger, better and more aesthetic sculpture of the two prominent Nigerians for better appreciation of their contribution to the development of Nigeria. The State Acting... Read More
The Lagos State Government today served another 48 hours Abatement Notice, from Tuesday, 25th to Thursday to 27th of July 2017 t o all owners of illegal structures and shanties including containerised shops around Obalende to remove them immediately. Chairman of the Lagos State Task Force, SP Olayinka Egbeyemi disclosed that these illegal structures and... Read More
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been issued a subpoena compelling him to participate in a hearing about Russian interference in the election. 68-year-old Manafort joined the Trump campaign back in March 2016, In a joint statement, the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley  and Sen Dianne Feinstein, said”While we were willing to accommodate... Read More
Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ahmed Makarfi has said no one was personally invited to the party’s caucus. Makarfi said this while responding to claims by Ali Modu Sheriff that he was not invited to the meeting. According to Vanguard, a source quoted Makarfi as saying even former President Goodluck Jonathan was not... Read More
The Strengthening Advocacy and Civic Engagement project (SACE) of the United States Agency for International Development is currently holding a 1-day National Assembly and Civil Society Interactive Technical Session in conjunction with the National Assembly House Committee on Civil Societies and Development partners, in collaboration with the Civil Society Legislative and Advocacy Centre. The session is centred... Read More
by Alexander O. Onukwue The comments credited to the PDP leadership in Adamawa state about a move to bring back former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, to their fold has generated reactions from political observers. Atiku has remained politically active and ambitious since his bitter ending with Obasanjo in 2007, making several attempts to gain the... Read More
Senior pastor of Latter Rain Assembly (LRA), Tunde Bakare says President Muhammadu Buhari and his predecessors are colonial masters, who ruled Nigeria without accountability. Bakare said this in a sermon in his church, TheCable reports. He said many Africans travel abroad and complain they are being mistreated by colonial masters, while they have their colonial... Read More
President Trump resumed attacking Attorney General Jeff Sessions early Tuesday, tweeting that the Attorney General  “has taken a very weak position on Hillary Clinton”. The President tweeted at Fox News host Sean Hannity and strong supporter saying; “Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump campaign – ‘quietly working to boost Clinton.’ So where is the investigation A.G.”.... Read More
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo said it would be suicidal to threaten Senate President Bukola Saraki and Speaker Yakubu Dogara. Osinbajo said this while declaring open the 16th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC) in Abuja on Tuesday. He said the media was more interested in the disagreements between the executive and legislature, instead... Read More
Full-time lovers of Microsoft Paint have stormed the internet and saved probably one of the greatest Windows program ever, as Microsoft has announced that it would now be available on the Windows Store. Following the company’s announcement that the program is now deprecated, meaning that it is “not in active development and might be removed in... Read More
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