Media Room Hub, an online media platform in conjunction with BBC Pidgin and Pulse Nigeria will be organizing a debate for five of the candidates vying for the House of Representatives position in Eti-Osa local government. The debate scheduled to hold on Monday, February 4, 2019 at the Civic Centre, Lekki, Lagos will see the…
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The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, have again failed to reach a compromise to end the ongoing strike by the university lecturers. According to News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, who addressed newsmen after the closed door meeting with the union on…
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A federal high court, sitting in Jalingo, Taraba, has ruled that the fraud case by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against Sani Danladi, former acting governor of the state, lacks merit. Danladi, alongside Mark Useni, a former speaker of the Taraba state house of assembly, and Joel Ikenya, former minister of labour and productivity,…
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The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has said it had not given up on its belief that Senate President Bukola Saraki was a usurper who needed to vacate his position since he now belonged to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which is in minority at the Senate. The party also said it was confident that…
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The Lagos house of assembly has explained why Akinwunmi Ambode, governor of the state, risks being impeached. The house had on Monday threatened to commence impeachment proceedings against the governor over alleged infractions in the 2018 budget and the yet-to-be-laid 2019 appropriation bill. The house had summoned the governor and relevant commissioners to appear before…
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Former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, has reportedly said he is sure that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s presidential candidate and his former deputy, Atiku Abubakar, will be elected as president in the coming elections. The elder statesman, who recently took a swipe at the administration of Muhammadu Buhari, described the president’s integrity and morality…
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has filed fraud charges against the immediate-past Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal; a former Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ayodele Oke, and his wife, Mrs. Folashade Oke. According to Punch, the anti-graft agency on Wednesday filed 10 counts against Lawal and five others, including…
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Nigeria’s Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has revealed what made him leave the party. The Speaker of the House of Representatives on Tuesday officially defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) saying he had to go back to the party under whose platform he was elected to the House. Dogara announced his…
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A group of protesters are presently demonstrating at the entrance of the Lagos State House of Assembly. According to Daily Post, the protest may not be unconnected with the plans by members of the State House of Assembly to impeach the incumbent governor, Akinwunmi Ambode who has been accused of gross misconduct. The governor was…
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A new UN report on Tuesday says more than 30,000 people have fled the northeast Nigerian town of Rann and across the border to Cameroon in recent days because of fears of renewed Boko Haram attack. The latest mass movement comes as the world body voiced renewed concern about the effect of the bloody conflict…
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