Politics

Senate pays N85.5million as Dariye allowances in prison Six months after his conviction by a Federal Capital Territory High Court, The Nigerian Senate still pays Senator Joshua Dariye allowances to the tune of N85.5million. In a report by The Punch, Dariye is ...

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday appointed his wife, Aisha, and the wife of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Dolapo Osinbajo, as members of Presidential Advisory Committee on the Elimination of Drug Abuse. The committee has the former Military Administrator of Lagos State, Brig. ...

The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria have rejected Father Mbaka’s apology to Peter Obi, which the controversial priest issued after an embarrassing episode with the PDP Vice Presidential candidate. Catholic Bishop of Enugu, Most Rev. Callistus Onaga who relayed the stand of the Catholic ...

There was tension during a church service on Sunday at St. Thomas Catholic Church Uke, in Idemili North Local Government area of Anambra State. It was gathered that the tension arose when a former lawmaker, Uche Ekwunife who was sacked ...

Peter Obi’s bank accounts has allegedly been frozen alongside that of his wife, his family members and their businesses by agencies of the Muhammadu Buhari administration. This was disclosed in a statement by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Organization (PPCO), signed by its National ...

Rochas Okorocha, Uche Nwosu and Hope Uzodinma Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha has insisted that as far as he is concerned, the All Progressives Congress, APC, does not have a governorship candidate in the state ahead of next year’s ...

The Abia State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised the alarm over the destruction and defacing of campaign posters of President Muhammadu Buhari and the governorship candidate of the party in the state, Dr. Uche Ogah within ...

The wife of the executive governor of Cross River, Dr Linda Ayade, left her “throne” to personally perform surgeries and administer free medical services to patients at Lawrence Henshaw Hospital in Calabar, the state capital. This was done through her pet project, ...

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uche Secondus, on Friday in Abuja warned the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, to stop insulting Nigerian leaders. He also accused President Muhammadu Buhari of not talking to ...

Atiku Abubakar Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2019 general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has pledged to form a government of national unity if elected into power. The former Vice President stated this Friday at a ...

People of Igbo extraction in the 19 northern states have been banned from travelling to their states of origin to vote in next year’s general elections.Any person who flouts the directive would be fined an undisclosed amount of money. The ...

  The governor of Kaduna state, Nasir el-Rufai says it is not easy to preside over the affairs of many people. Speaking at an election summit organised by the Kaduna State Peace Commission, the governor said at times he feels ...

  National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress  (APC),  Comrade Adams Oshiomhole said on Wednesday that the governors of Imo and Ogun State,  Rochas Okorocha and Senator Ibikunle Amosun  were behaving like poor student of their own history who had ...

Plot to impeach Osinbajo intensifies as a member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Johnson Agbonayinma, ‎representing Egor/Ikpoba-Okha Federal Constituency, Edo State, has alleged that some members ‎are collating signatures to effect the impeachment of the Vice President   Agbonayinma made ...

Catholic Church disowns Mbaka and have denied any involvement with the statement made by the Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry, Enugu. In a video that has since gone viral, Father Ejike Mbaka was seen telling the vice presidential candidate of ...

  Wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to women to ensure the return of the APC administration in 2019. She made the appeal at a National Women Leadership Summit organized by a political group, Project 4+4 for Buhari ...

  Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, never told anyone he has been issued an American visa or planning a trip to the United States of America, a top official of his campaign organisation disclosed yesterday.   ...

Ibikunle Amosun, Ogun State Governor has vowed to work against APC governorship candidate even though it is his party. Amosun who spoke on Monday in Abeokuta at a stakeholders meeting of the APC which was attended by his preferred governorship candidate and the flagbearer ...

An Aisha Buhari ‘associate’ who was arrested for fraud, however she caused a mild drama after she disclosed that she worked the First lady’s sister, Moriyatu, and Babachir Lawal, a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation who was fired for fraudulent diversion of ...

  A young boy went home in a happy state after he was rewarded by a senator his action.   It was gathered that the boy placed his shirt on the ground for Senator Godswill Akpabio to walk on to ...

  The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has declared that no level of illegal use of force by the Federal Government’s security agencies will intimidate his government and people of the state.   Wike said his administration remained committed ...

  Former president Goodluck Jonathan says only the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) can feed Nigerians three times a day.   Jonathan asked Nigerians to vote Atiku Abubakar, the party’s presidential candidate in 2019, “so that all of us will have food to eat”. ...

  The Spiritual Head, Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, Olumba Olumba Obu, has warned Nigerian leaders of the consequences of ruling without the fear of God. He also said that any leader looting funds and fails to run the ...

  According to reports, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has finally been issued a visa to the United States.   A family source disclosed this to TheCable on Saturday and confirmed that the former ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said he was a descendant of Abraham, a biblical hero regarded as the father of faith. The President said this in an article he wrote in The Church Times UK titled, “Don’t politicise religion in Nigeria.” ...