The senate has ended its sitting today without the much-awaited ministerial list. The senators deliberated on Nigeria at 55 and afterwards adjourned sitting to a new legislative date. Buhari had
Prophet Bushiri of the Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) in Malawi has left the Christian world awe-struck with a miracle in which he floats on thin air. Bushiri, who earned himself a reputation as a man of God with his prophesies, has left tongues wagging with a new video that depicts him walking in the air.
The hair-raising miracle worker was captured while performing his latest video. See below...
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has affirmed that the current administration under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari is determined to erase corruption and power hiccups in Nigeria.
Osinbajo gave this assurance in his address on Tuesday at the seventh convocation of the Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun State.
President Muhammadu Buhari revealed during an exclusive in-person interview with SaharaTV his feelings about Senate President Bukola Saraki and his ongoing trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal for false declaration of assets. President Buhari, speaking with SaharaTV correspondent Adeola Fayehun, also addressed upcoming prosecutions of corrupt public officials and his ministerial appointees.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday named Nigeria’s petroleum minister.And that is himself. President Buhari said he would personally head the Ministry of Petroleum Resources in the new cabinet.
Incumbent Chairman of the 8th National Assembly and Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has urged members of the Red chamber to ensure that the long-awaited ministerial list of President Muhammadu Buhari is treated with urgency, when it is eventually submitted by the President Buhari this week.
Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, has declared that Zimbabweans are not gays.
The Zimbabwean leader who has always re-echoed respect and continual human rights as the obligation of all states has never hidden his stance on anti-gay campaign.
President Buhari walked out of the Assembly hall amidst joy with Nigerian Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Prof Joy Ogwu shortly after delivering his speech at the UN headquarters during the 70th UN general assembly meeting in NewYork on 28th Sept 2015.
The President was so excited and laughed out loud.
The Nigerian permanent mission to the United Nations lead by Ambassador Joy Ogwu, has purportedly messed up the formal schedule of President Muhammadu Buhari in New York.
President Buhari at the 70th general Assembly of the United Nations
Ahead of the expected resumption of the Senate on Tuesday, the Coalition of Northern Youths Association, CNYA, has claimed that the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, is not morally qualified to retain the position by virtue of his arraignment at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, last week. It consequently requested him to step down for a more qualified Senator to preside over the affairs of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Strong indications emerged, yesterday, that the Senate will receive the ministerial list from President Muhammadu Buhari tomorrow or Wednesday.
Ahead of the submission of the Ministerial list by President Buhari, National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has summoned an emergency meeting of the National Working Committee, NWC, for today.
A certain Abdullahi Adamu, who is suspected to be a member of the Boko Haram sect, has been picked up by security operatives in the Ijora area of Lagos State.
His arrest followed a tip-off by residents of the community. See photo after the cut...
Embattled President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, who pleaded not guilty to a 13-count charge of corruption and false declaration of asset at the Code of Conduct Tribunal in Abuja on Tuesday, has reiterated his belief that his trial for alleged corruption stems from his emergence as Senate president.
Saraki, who was granted bail on self-recognition after taking his plea, had on Monday seen his ex parte application filed before the Court of Appeal and Federal High Court to stop his trial, turned down.
Nollywood actress and politician, Funke Adesiyan, has defended her friend and colleague, Bimbo Thomas, who was criticised few days ago for wearing a swimsuit to a beach in Miami.
There was an argument at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, over where Saraki was to stay in taking his plea on the 13-count charges preferred against him which border on false assets declaration.
Senator Ighoyota Amori (PDP), Delta Central has said that having taken stock of the activities of governor Adams Oshiomole since Buhari’s administration, he has abandoned the job for which he was elected and now performing a new role of ”attacking” people when nothing calls for it.
A fearless Italian model spent 10 hours in June swimming with crocodiles in a lagoon in the Gulf of Mexico - some 30 miles from the coast - which is home to over 700 American crocodiles. In one extraordinary shoot, Roberta Mancino came face-to-face with a four-meter-long American crocodile.
All may not be well with the ‘ad-hoc’ cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari as fillers from the Presidency indicate an unhealthy power tussle between an elected member of the President’s cabinet, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and an unofficial one in the person of Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, The TRENT is reporting.
The Central Bank of Nigeria has directed banks to ensure to resolve all Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cardholders’ complaints within a maximum of 72 hours from the date of receipt the complaints or face sanctions. This is contained in a new set of rules to guide transactions, going forward. Where records are falsified by any party, the CBN warns that adequate sanctions shall apply.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and erstwhile Lagos State Governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, are locked in a war of attrition over the formation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet. Already, former Lagos State
Jose Mourinho confidently claimed he’s still one of the best managers in the business as Chelsea returned to winning ways on Wednesday. The title holders recorded only their second win of a poor season so far with a comprehensive 4-0 victory over Maccabi Tel-Aviv as they got their Champions League campaign off to flying start.
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday vowed to implement the recommendations of the Justice George Omereji-led judicial commission of inquiry.
He had constituted the panel to probe the sale of Rivers’ assets and to also look into other matters concerning the management of state resources by the past administration.
President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to grant amnesty to Boko Haram insurgents on the condition that they freed all the abducted Chibok schoolgirls.
The President, made this known during his three-day visit to France in an interview with Agence France Presse on Wednesday.
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his administration is worried by the continued stay of the Chibok schoolgirls in the hands of their captors and is working tirelessly to get them released.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the President stated this on Tuesday in Paris while responding to questions from members of the Nigerian community in France under the auspices of Nigerians in Diaspora Organization (NIDO).
Barely four months after the exit of President Goodluck Jonathan from power, indications have emerged on why former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, picked the former Bayelsa governor as vice to late President Umaru Yar’Adua.
Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress has insisted that the immediate past governor of the state, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, remained untainted with corruption.
The state APC urged President Muhammadu Buhari to disregard “desperate” efforts by the current Governor of the State, Chief Nyesom Wike, to tarnish Amaechi’s image.
Tunde Bakare, has disclosed details of his meetings with former President Goodluck Jonathan, and what he benefitted from the former leader while he was in office.
Mr. Bakare, a former running-mate of President Muhammadu Buhari on the platform of defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in 2011, said he wrote four -point letter to Mr. Jonathan, calling his attention to the level of impunity in his administration.
A 70-year-old Ugandan woman Zaituni Nakanda who broke the internet after her loved up pictures with 27-year-old lover, Steven Tikubuwana, is now claiming to be pregnant.
There are strong indications that the Department of State Service, (DSS) has completed a screening process for some of the ministerial nominees to make up the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The absence of an Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, and Minister of Justice has been identified as what is delaying the prosecution of ex-government officials who served under the Goodluck Jonathan administration and their accomplices in the private sector for corruption charges.
Former President, Goodluck Jonathan has directed the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, leadership to do everything to stop Governor Idris Wada of Kogi State in the governorship primary that is expected to take place on Monday (today) in Lokoja, even as he clearly told the governor not to expect his support for his second term bid.
A former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to reverse his recent appointments, saying that the President’s justification was unacceptable.
Fani-Kayode said that the appointments made by the President were a revival of northern quest to dominate the country.
A lawyer from Anambra State has sued President Muhammadu Buhari over his recent appointments which many believe show a bias towards Nigeria’s northern region.
Marcel Dim-Udebuani filed the suit challenging Buhari’s appointments at the Federal High Court in Abuja.
Immediate past National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, who was charged to court on August 24th by the Department of State Services (DSS) for possession of fire arms without a license is pictured above at the Federal High Court Abuja this morning for hearing of the case. He was granted bail on self recognition by the court. Another photo after the cut...
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has responded to the attacks on President Muhammadu Buhari by Ayo Fayose, Ekiti state governor over lopsided appointments.
While Fayose accused Buhari of running the country as if he was the president of northern Nigeria only, the presidency said the governor’s attacks were capable of generating ethnic clashes among the nation’s communities.
THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Nigeria’s oldest political party, yesterday, marked 17 years of its existence with a low-key event at its Wadata Plaza, Abuja National Secretariat.
Briefing Journalists in Abuja, PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, who catalogued the achievements of the party in its 17 years of existence, said it lost some of its founding and leading