How Buhari Will Spend N500 Billion on One Million Poor Nigerians – Presidency
The Presidency has explained why the Buhari government has proposed a N500 billion estimate in the 2016 budget for social welfare It also released details on the six social protection…
Senate Claws Back, Accuses Presidency of Padding Budget
The Senate has blamed the Presidency for the alleged padding of the 2016 budget by some top civil servants. The Senate said besides probing the padding, the Minister of National…
Governor Emmanuel to Akwa Ibom People: ‘You Are in Safe Hands’
By the end of November, last year, Governor Udom Gabriel Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State joined his colleagues to mark six months in office. The Governor did not roll out…
Group Knocks Oyegun over Comments on Supreme Court Judgments, Says He is Shedding ‘Old Man’s Crocodile Tears’
The Taraba Mandate Group (TMG)has slammed the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), John Oyegun, over comments it termed as unsavoury and unwarranted . TMG is peeved that…
Insurgents from Sambisa Forest Razes Borno Village, Kill 10
At least 10 persons were confirmed dead with scores injured when a group of Boko Haram terrorists who rode on 10 bicycles from Sambisa Forest invaded Mairi Mmumbe village, near…
Lagos Launches Mobile Court to Try Traffic Offenders…Driving Against Traffic, Beating Traffic Light May Land You in Trouble in Minutes
The Lagos State Government Friday inaugurated the Special Offences (Mobile) Court to summarily try traffic offenders with immediacy, another attempt to deal with the traffic menace that has hobbled the…
Illegal Land Allocation: Senate Orders Demolition of Jonathan, Adokie, Azazi, Others’ Buildings
Former President Goodluck Jonathan, Acting National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Uche Secondus, former Attorney General of Federation, Mohammed Bello Adoke and 26 other top Nigerians were allocated plots…
No reprieve for Saraki as Supreme Court Gives all Clear for his trial at CCT
The Supreme Court on Friday in a landmark judgment ruled that the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) has jurisdiction to make its proceedings criminal. Consequently, the Supreme Court in a…
Buhari under pressure to discontinue anti-graft war, says Osinbajo
President Muhammadu Buhari is under intense pressure to stop his administration’s ongoing anti-corruption war. The Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday said the pressure was being mounted by some unnamed Nigerian…
Workers Begin Strike Monday to Protest Electricity Tariff
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Thursday announced its resolve to shut down the economy on Monday in protest against the 45 per cent increase in electricity tariff. A statement…