Politics

  The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Tor Uja, has said 100 Christian pilgrims absconded during the 2017 pilgrimage to Israel.   He revealed this while receiving security report of the 2017 pilgrimage on Monday in ...

The Philippine president, who recently sparked outrage for calling God stupid, has courted new controversy in his largely Roman Catholic country by saying he will resign if anybody can prove that God exists.   President Rodrigo Duterte, who has had ...

Hundreds of persons from Dutse constituency beat and held hostage Bala Yargaba, the council chairman of Dutse Local Government Area in Jigawa State., according to Premium Times. They accused the council chief of non-payment of polling unit development fund meant ...

EDO State Deputy Governor, Comrade Phillips Shaibu narrowly escaped death by the whiskers on Sunday as his convoy was involved in an auto crash along the Benin- Agbor expressway. Two persons, the personal assistant to the deputy governor and a ...

  At least 183 teenagers, who were previously working with Boko Haram terrorists, have been handed over to the United Nations by the Nigerian Army. They were handed over to officials of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and United ...

  The leadership of the Arewa Youth Forum today said president Muhammadu Buhari does not deserve a second term in office in 2019 as this would spell doom not only for the North but for the rest of the country. ...

  Former President Olusegun Obasanjo briefly attended the political rally of a governorship aspirant of PDP in Ogun state, Hon. Oladipupo Adebutu. The former president who tore his membership card of the party in February 2015, attended the rally today dressed in ...

A former deputy governor of Ondo State, Lasisi Oluboyo, whose daughter, Khadijat, was found in the room of her boyfriend, Adeyemi Alao, on Sunday July 8th, has accused the suspect of killing his daughter for ritual purposes. Khadijat, a student at ...

The National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) has reacted to the exclusive story published by PREMIUM TIMES detailing how finance minister, Kemi Adeosun, skipped the mandatory national service and used a forged certificate to cover for it. The story has generated ...

Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose has come under severe attacks over his statement last Thursday that he won’t receive President Muhammadu Buhari, when he visits Ekiti State for the grand finale rally of the All Progressives Congress, APC, today . ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Federal Government to make public the names of all persons allegedly involved in siphoning repatriated $322 million looted by the late General Sani Abacha. The party made the call in a ...

Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, has said Nigeria needs quintessential and selfless leaders like the Mallam Adamu Ciroma  to rescue the country from the shackles of injustice,  misrule and underdevelopment. A statement by the Governor’s Chief Press Secretary (CPS), ...

The Federal Government has appealed to all its citizens as well as members of the international community to refrain from spreading false stories and inflammatory statements concerning herder-farmer clashes. Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on ...

The South-East Governors’ Forum (SEGF)  have rejected the proposal by the Federal Government to establish cattle ranches in some states to solve the frequent clashes between herdsmen and farmers.   The governors at a meeting in Enugu state yesterday July 8th, said ...

  The Presidency, Senate and Minister of Finance Kemi Adeosun, have kept mute over allegations published by Premium Times on Saturday that she skipped the mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and subsequently obtained a forged exemption certificate in 2009. The minister ...

The Kogi West Elders Forum (KWEF) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)  has rejected any attempt to impose Senator Dino Melaye as the sole senatorial candidate on the people of the Kogi West in 2019. The  elders made this known through ...

Adenike Khadijat Oluboyo, daughter of the immediate past Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Alhaji Lasisi Olugbenga Oluboyo, was found dead at her boyfriend’s house in Akure today July 8th..   Oluboyo, who was a final year student of Adekunle Ajasin ...

A least nine people were killed in an attack on Somalia’s interior ministry and security forces killed all three attackers after a two-hour gun battle inside, police said Saturday, as the al-Shabab extremist group claimed responsibility. A number of people, ...

Senator Ben Murray-Bruce representing Bayelsa east constituency says Afrobeat legend, Fela Kuti is more famous than any president in the history of Nigeria.   He described the late king of Afrobeat as the “greatest leader to come out of Africa”. According ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it will spend about N600m on the Ekiti State governorship election which will take place on July 14, 2018.   The INEC National Commissioner in charge of the Ekiti election, Prince Solomon ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has charged President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately sack, arrest and arraign his minister of finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun for alleged criminal forgery of her NYSC certificate. PDP urges President Buhari not to provide a cover ...

Premium Times published a report alleging that Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, forged her NYSC certificate and that she allegedly never participated in the one-year mandatory scheme. Read the report as published by Premiumtimes below Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun, did ...

The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARDs) on Friday, July 6, protested against the gruesome killing of one its member along Abuja-Kaduna Highway. Late Dr Oluremi Alabi Adedotun was killed by gunmen along the Abuja-Kaduna Highway during a trip to ...

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned and described as illegal, unconstitutional, reprehensible and a dangerous step towards a descent to fascism, the asset seizure Executive Order imposed by President Buhari, in total disregard to the provisions of 1999 constitution The party ...