President Muhammadu Buhari has finally sent his list of ministerial nominees to the Senate. This was made known by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, who read out the president’s letter at plenary on Tuesday. The president appointed a total of 43 ministers from the 36 states and Abuja. Among theContinue Reading
Boris Johnson has been elected leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party and, by default, the country’s next prime minister. The Brexit hardliner, a former London mayor, on Tuesday won the votes of 92,153 members of the ruling party, while his rival, Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt, won 46,656. Johnson is set to becomeContinue Reading
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, says the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government refused to obey Justice Gabriel Kolawole’s order on the release of the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Sheikh Ibraheem el-Zakzakky, because it appealed the ruling. Adesina said this duringContinue Reading
President Muhammadu Buhari has been asked to sack Service Chiefs over insecurity and banditry in Nigeria. This call was made on Monday in Lagos by the National President of the Committee for Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), Comrade Gbenga Soloki in a press statement he signed. The body stressed thatContinue Reading
Cristiano Ronaldo will not face criminal charges over an alleged rape in Las Vegas, U.S. prosecutors have said. Kathryn Mayorga, 35, accused the former Manchester United star he had attacked in her a Sin City suite in 2009. The footballer had vehemently denied her accusations. On Monday, the Clark County District Attorney’sContinue Reading
The Federal Government and German-based Siemens have signed an electricity road map agreement that is expected to terminate in 2025. The implementation of the agreement is in three phrases and it comes under a government-to-government arrangement, which eliminates middlemen involvement to guarantee more value. Also guaranteed by the agreement isContinue Reading
The unending protest of the members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), otherwise known as the Shiites has claimed the life a top police officer with the Federal Capital Territory Police Command. PRNigeria reports Monday evening that the deceased was Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Operation, DCPContinue Reading
The All Progressives Congress has exonerated its National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, of any blame in the crisis rocking the Edo State House of Assembly. The ruling party, which called on Governor Godwin Obaseki to issue a new proclamation for the inauguration of the elected members of the state Assembly, saidContinue Reading
There is yet no resolution in sight to the controversy surrounding the death of Benson Lulu-Briggs, the Kalabari high chief and chairman of Moni Pulo Limited. Lawyers to the three son of the late billionaire have written a protest to the director general, criminal investigation department of the Ghana police service,Continue Reading
The Presidency has dismissed Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) allegation that the one billion dollars drawn from the Excess Crude Account (ECA) was spent by the Muhammadu Buhari administration on the 2019 general elections. The Peoples Democratic Party in a statement had on Sunday asked Buhari to explain to Nigerians what hisContinue Reading
