Politics

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Wednesday insisted that it would not allow the country’s commonwealth wasted by corrupt politicians for the 2019 general election.   Speaking while presenting a paper at a one-day retreat for 36 state ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said the situation in Borno State due to the Boko Haram insurgency would have been worse but for his administration.   The president stated this when he visited the palace of the Shehu of ...

  Governor Nasir El-Rufai has said his reelection is almost a done deal in the coming 2019 Kaduna state governorship poll despite all the people that have been upset by some policies of his administration, Daily Post reports. Speaking as a special guest ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it did not receive a N10 million donation from Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano state. Ganduje had announced the donation when he received members of the organising committee of an anti-corruption marathon programme in Abuja. ...

  The Kano State governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, has donated N10 million to the organizers of the National Anti-Corruption Marathon.   The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Crimes, ICPC, Athletic Federation of Nigeria, AFN ...

  The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has challenged the presidential candidate of the People Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to come clean on the alleged ban on him from traveling to the United States of America (USA) over ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has directed candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to embark on real campaign and not to beg, insult and force voters.   He advised them to base their campaigns on issues ahead of the ...

  Reports have it that the alleged bribery videos of governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, are now being sold in markets in Kano state.   A young man who purchased the full season from episode 1-6, took to Facebook to show ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has summoned all the Service Chiefs for a review session over the renewed attacks by Boko Haram on military bases in the North-East,   The President has also sent the Minister of Defence, Brig-Gen Mansur Dan ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari is being criticised for his silence over the killing of several soldiers in a recent attack in Metele, Borno state.   Reports in the country said terrorists on Sunday overran a Nigerian Army battalion, 157 Task Force Battalion, ...

The Nigeria Police Force, has said the death of Offa ban robbery principal suspect, Michael Adikwu, does not vindicate, Senate President, Bukola Saraki.   The Police made this known while reacting to the statement from Senate President, Bukola Saraki, that the ...

  Emir of Kano, Muhammed Sanusi II, has blamed the increasing rate of migration on the misplaced priorities, mismanagement of the economy and lack of understanding of the importance of development by the federal government, adding that Europe and America ...

  Senators yesterday bemoaned the reported killing of 44 soldiers attached to the 157 Task Force Battalion in Melete, Borno State by Boko Haram insurgents. A sombre atmosphere enveloped the plenary as the lawmakers took turns to condemn the “monumental ...

    Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday sealed six landed properties allegedly owned by Ayo Fayose, former governor of Ekiti.   NAN reports that the sealing may be connected to a court order which ...

  A serving member of the Zamfara State House of Assembly, Lawali Attahiru Dogonkade, has been fined N120,000 after pleading guilty to fraud on a N31million contract.   Dogankade was convicted on Thursday by Justice Bello Shinkafi, a sitting judge ...

    The Governor òf Bayelsa State, the Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson, has announced a donation of N100 million grant to the Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Foundation.   The Governor who made the announcement while speaking as the Chief Host of ...

    Former Ogun State Governor, Chief Segun Osoba said on Tuesday that governors who served under former President Olusegun Obasanjo were able to cage him and stop him from doing a lot of unconstitutional things because of their maturity ...

  Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday in Abuja said that Nigerians must not allow anti-democratic elements whom he refereed to as hooligans to have access to power, saying it would become a dangerous weapon in their hands.   Agreeing ...

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, November 19, 2018, opened its case against a former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, who is being prosecuted for an alleged N2.2bn fraud, before Justice Mojisola Olatoregun of ...

    Sen. Ali Ndume (APC-Borno) has accused Senate President Bukola Saraki of personalising the chamber, insisting that plans to impeach him is much alive.   Ndume said at a Forum of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja ...

  A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers state, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has appealed to the Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, and his party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to call off their arms bearing ...

  The prosecution on Monday opened its case before a Federal High Court Lagos in the criminal trial of immediate past Governor of Ekiti, Ayodele Fayose, charged with N6.9 billion fraud.   Fayose was arraigned by the Economic and Financial ...

  The spokesman of the Atiku Abubakar campaign organisation, Segun Sowumni has condemned the presence of service chiefs at an event to showcase President Muhammadu Buhari’s achievements.   The president also launched his campaign to get re-elected at the event tagged ...

  The acting British High Commissioner, Harriet Thompson, says the United Kingdom has no preferred candidate or political party in the forthcoming general elections.   Ms Thompson stated this while briefing reporters after meeting with the Senate President, Dr Bukola ...

  Nigeria’s transportation minister and the director-general of President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign organisation, Rotimi Amaechi ,has said the ruling All Progressives Congress will have it easy campaigning against the opposition People’s Democratic Party in the forthcoming 2019 general election.   “We are going to ...