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President Muhammadu Buhari has warned those planning to disrupt the 2019 general elections by snatching ballot boxes or disturbing polling units they could pay with their lives. While speaking at the caucus meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja on Monday, February 18, 2019, he said he’s confident that he’ll win re-election so […]
Security operatives had to shield President Muhammadu Buhari as a projectile was thrown in the direction of the stage while he was addressing supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at a campaign rally in Ogun State. The president visited the state on Monday, February 11, 2019, as part of his re-election campaign just days […]
The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has accused the presidency of planning to force the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Walter Onnoghen to resign at gunpoint. The suspended CJN had debunked reports of his resignation in a statement which was issued by his media aide. According to Daily Post, CUPP’s spokesman, Imo Ugochinyere […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has praised Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo’s decision to continue with his campaign tour in Kogi state despite a near death experience. Osinbajo’s helicopter crash-landed in Kabba, Kogi state on Saturday, February 2, 2019. The President said this in a statement on Twitter which was issued by his media aide, Garba Shehu. Buhari said […]
Mr Ibraheem Al-Hassan, Head of Press and Public Relations of the tribunal disclosed this in a statement in Abuja. The tribunal had on Jan.28 adjourned proceedings indefinitely, pending the determination of an interlocutory appeal against it at the Court of Appeal. The appellate court on Wednesday dismissed Onnoghen’s motion to stay his trial indefinitely pending […]
Sylvester Adaka, the RIvers State Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), was the victim of an attack by some thugs suspected to be affiliated to politicians on Wednesday. Adaka had approached the Court of Appeal in Port Harcourt on Wednesday to plead for request an adjournment of proceedings in response to the boycott order […]
This formed the opinion of Nigerians who led a protest to the United States Embassy in Abuja on Monday, January 27, 2019, to express the grievances following America’s reaction to the sacking of Justice Walter Onnoghen as the country’s number-one chief law officer. President Muhammadu Buhari had on Friday, January 25, 2019, suspended Onnoghen over […]
Nigeria has moved up four places from 148th to 144th position in the 2018 corruption perception index (CPI) compiled by Transparency International. According to Transparency International, the 2018 CPI ranking draws on 13 surveys and expert assessments to measure public sector corruption in 180 countries and territories, giving each a score from zero (highly corrupt) […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has transmitted the National Minimum Wage Bill to the National Assembly after its approval by the National Council of State. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Affairs, Senator Ita Enang, confirmed on Wednesday that the bill was transmitted to the parliament earlier in the day. Enang, however, did […]
President Muhammadu Buhari and former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, were all smiles when they both met at the Presidential Villa on Tuesday, January 22, 2019. The two shared a warm handshake at the National Council of State meeting on Tuesday, just two days after Obasanjo compared the president to former brutal military dictator, Sani Abacha. In […]