Politics

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 ...

  Three persons were killed in attacks by suspected Fulani herdsmen in Tiza Village, Tormbo ward, Logo Local Government Area of Benue State on Thursday. It was gathered that the attackers invaded the village and laid ambushed for the farmers who were ...

Former Pakistan Prime minister, Nawaz Sharif has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for corruption, while his daughter Maryam Sharif has been given seven years. The verdict was delivered by an accountability court in Pakistan in one of the ...

  © A burnt-out motorcycle is seen in a house burned down in central Plateau state The editor-in-chief of Nigeria’s Daily Trust newspaper, Mannir Dan Ali, considers whether ranches could solve the deadly conflicts between herders and farmers. No issue ...

Senate President, Bukola Saraki says he’s a happy man as the Supreme court finally vindicates him after a ‘tortuous journey of 1018 days’,   In his words, ‘at the end of a tortuous journey of 1018 Days, counting from September 22, 2015, ...

The Ondo state police command is currently on the trail of two armed robbery suspects, Rotimi Adeyeye and Adeoye Bukola, who reportedly escaped from a cell at the Special Anti-Robbery Squad SARS of the police command.   A source in the command said the suspects ...

The Senate Committee on Police Affairs has summoned the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, over the killing of seven police officers in Abuja on Monday. The Chairman of the Committee, Abu Ibrahim (APC, Katsina South), disclosed this at the ...

At his meeting with Christian leaders from the 19 Northern states and the Federal cpital territory yesterday, President Buhari said those who are accusing him of supporting the hersmen attacks because of he is from the Fulani extraction are evil. ‘‘When ...

The Vice President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo said on Thursday that the celebration of the 2018 Nigerian Army Day at Mongunu in Borno North was a proof that the “end of the Boko Haram terrorists group will come sooner than ...

The funeral prayers for late Mallam Adamu Chiroma, former governor of Central Bank and former finance minister, who died yesterday July 5th at Nizamiye Hospital was held at Annnur Mosque and Islamic Centre, Abuja today.   Late Mallam Adamu Chiroma ...

The minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed has said that he is not aware of a court order mandating the National Assembly to begin an impeachment process against President Buhari. Mohammed said this while speaking to State House correspondents ...

A Special Offences Court sitting in the Ikeja area of Lagos State has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to produce the chairman of Innoson Motors Limited, Innocent Chukwuma, for his arraignment.   Justice Olusola Williams made this pronouncement ...

Mallam Adamu Ciroma, elder statesman, presidential hopeful and the first editor of the New Nigeria Newspaper, the most influential newspaper in its days, dies at the age of 84. He died at the Turkish Hospital, Abuja on Thursday. Details later

Customs officials in Kaduna state have intercepted a tanker stacked with various brands of foreign parboiled rice numberingover 1,000 bags. This arrest comes months after the Federal Government announced of plans to close land borders due to massive smuggling of rice ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo has ordered the National Assembly to commence impeachment proceeding against President Buhari. According to Punch, the order was issued by Justice Maureen Onyetenu on Wednesday, July 4, 2018. The Chairman of the Ilesa branch of ...

Justice A. B. Mohammed of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting in Jabi, Abuja, on Monday, July 2, 2018 convicted one Bala Tangalu, a self styled native doctor, on the two counts of conspiracy and obtaining by ...

Abdulateef Babatunde, a 21-year-old man is to die by hanging for robbing two men including a policeman of their motorcycles at gunpoint. Justice Dele Omotoso of an Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday found Babatunde guilty of the charge of ...

The wife of Executive Chairman, Ikono LGC, Mrs. Ekaette Columba on Tuesday rescued a 6 months old baby abandoned by his 16-year old mother along Uyo Ikot-Ekpene express way, Akwa Ibom state. The mother, Miss Ofonime Christopher Effiong, who hails from ...

Today, hundreds of angry youths stormed the National Assembly protesting allegation of budget padding by the lawmakers and demanding resignation of Senate President, Bukola Saraki.   According to reports, police quickly locked the gates to prevent the crowd from gaining ...

Military Special Task Force (STF) in charge of security in Plateau State code named “Operation Safe Haven” (OPSH) has disclosed that it has so far arrested 21 suspects in connection with the recent killings and civil disturbances in Jos. The ...

A 15 year-old former Boko Haram bomb maker, Ali Goni has made a chilling confession about how he made over 500 underwear Improvised Explosive Devices(IEDs) used by insurgents for suicide missions on soft targets in the last five years.   Ali Goni was ...