Senator Elisha Abbo (Adamawa North District) has admitted that he is the man in a video that has gone viral, physically assaulting a woman in a intimacy gadget shop in Abuja. However, Abbo, speaking to the Daily Sun, claimed the video was distorted. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmaker, who is the youngest Senator in... Continue Reading →
President of the Senate, Senator Ahmed Lawan; his deputy, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila; Deputy Speaker, Mr Ahmed Idris, and 465 other lawmakers are set to receive at least N32.83bn as welcome package, investigation has shown. It was learnt that the lawmakers start receiving the money from Monday.... Continue Reading →
The Peoples Democratic Party has challenged President Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo to publicly declare their assets to prove to Nigerians and the world that they are not corrupt. The main opposition party also asked the President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan, and the Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, to make public their assets... Continue Reading →
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has begun the process to arraign Bukola Saraki, immediate past President of the Nigerian Senate for allegedly diverting money from the treasury of the Kwara State. The EFCC is alleging that Saraki illegally withdrew the funds while he was the Governor of the state between 2003 and 2011.... Continue Reading →
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has urged people of the state to keep faith with his administration, saying his achievements in the first term will be child’s play to what he will do, if given mandate for another term. Gov Bello spoke yesterday in Lokoja, at the All Progressive Congress, APC, stakeholders’ meeting where... Continue Reading →
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flag bearer in the September 22, 2018, gubernatorial election in Osun, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has declared he would become the governor of the state by next week Friday. He expressed optimism that the Supreme Court judgment slated for July 5 in the appeal filed against the Court of Appeal ruling... Continue Reading →
Senate president Ahmed Lawan has said his monthly salary is N750,000 and that there was nothing like jumbo salary for National Assembly members as being speculated in the media. Lawan made the disclosure, when members of the Senators’ Forum paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Abuja on Tuesday. While further disregarding the... Continue Reading →
A few hours to the end of his reign as Ogun State helsman, embattled Governor Ibikunle Amosun contacted the state’s Commissioner of Police, Bashir Makama, confessing that he had thousands of arms and millions of ammunition in store at a secret armoury in Government House, and that he had decided to hand them over to... Continue Reading →
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has vowed to challenge, at the Supreme Court, the dismissal of their application to be granted access to inspect the central server allegedly used by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to transmit results of the last general election. Recall that the Presidential Election... Continue Reading →
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Monday dismissed an application by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, requesting permission to have access to the central server said to have been used by the Independent National Electoral Commission for the conduct of the February 23 poll. The Justice Mohammed Garba-led bench of... Continue Reading →
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