The House of Representatives has urged the Presidency to seek interpretation of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Act before a court, following the Senate’s rejection of Mr Ibrahim Magu as Chairman. The House also resolved that the executive should refrain from making statements that connote the usurpation of the judiciary’s powers considering…
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The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff said he was pulling out the reconciliation move of the former President Goodluck Jonathan to resolve the party’s leadership crisis. Sheriff in a statement signed by his Deputy National Chairman, Dr Cairo Ojougboh issued on Thursday in Abuja, said this was to enable…
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Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has said he will not stop giving the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, his due respect despite the public embarrassment he received from the Oba earlier on Tuesday. The foremost traditional ruler in Yorubaland said he was not be perturbed by Akiolu’s action. He said he is committed…
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President of the China Africa Development Fund, Linus Idahosa, Nigerian State Governors, the Vice Mayor of Guangzhou and Presidents of some of the largest Fortune 500 Companies in China recently gathered for deliberations at the first Nigeria-China Governors’ Investment Forum which took place in the metropolitan city of Guangzhou in China. Among the 15 governors…
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Ilie Nastase defied an International Tennis Federation ban to take centre stage again as Britain’s Fed Cup tie with Romania finished with snubbed handshakes, a delivery of flowers and defeat. The disgraced 70-year-old swaggered back into the Tenis Club IDU on Sunday even though he had been sacked as captain after making appalling racist and…
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Governor Nasir El–Rufai said that it is not compulsory for President Muhammadu Buhari to preside over the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting and that he can always delegate the responsibility. The Kaduna State governor said this on Wednesday in Abuja, on behalf of other governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He…
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says all is set to commence the nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) across the 774 Local Government Areas in the country on Thursday, April 27. INEC Director of Voter Education and Publicity, Mr Oluwole Osaze–Uzzi said this in Abuja on Wednesday while speaking with the News Agency of…
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Professor Babalola Borishade, 71, former Nigerian Minister of Education is dead. He died in London on Wednesday after a brief illness. He was initially rushed to Reddington Hospital in Lagos, last week from where he was taken to London. The cause of death was lung and heart-related. Borishade was born in Usi-Ekiti on March 7,…
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The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed says he “never said that President Muhammadu Buhari is to work from home henceforth”. In a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday, the minister said, the reporting in a section of the media of his post – Federal Executive Council (FEC) briefing that the President is to work from home henceforth is erroneous. In…
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The Nigerian Police Force (NPF) has said that it has commenced investigation into comments made by an alleged Police Officer Inusa Saidu Biu on Facebook. Inusa had threatened to kill 200 people if President Muhammadu Buhari dies, adding that he (Buhari) was poisoned but survived. See the post below: The statement signed by the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), DCP Don…
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