Ekiti State Government on Saturday announced extention of the current long term holidays for students in public and private primary and secondary schools. This is contained in a statement by the state Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mr. Jide [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja from China where he attended the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit. The president departed Nigeria on August 31 alongside nine ministers and four state governors. He was also accompanied by Aisha, his wife and [...]
The Director of Media for the Buhari Campaign Organisation, Festus Keyamo, on Friday admitted that not all “steps and decisions” taken by President Muhammadu Buhari government that are right. Keyamo said despite some of the errors,Buhari’s personal integrity stands tall [...]
A former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, has knocked President Muhammadu Buhari for not taking action on the certificate forgery scandal involving finance minister, Kemi Adeosun. Mr Abubakar also flayed the president for not punishing officials involved in the controversial recall [...]
The Nigerian Army said it had nutrialised 14 Boko Haram insurgents and rescued 21 hostages in Pulka village in Gwoza Local Government area of Borno. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the insurgents had on Tuesday, ambushed military [...]
Governor of Benue, Samuel Ortom has declared that he would prefer to lose the next February governorship election than win it through violence. The governor urged politicians in the state to eschew violence in the run-up to the 2019 general [...]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Katsina State yesterday adopted indirect primaries for the 2019 general elections. Governor Aminu Bello Masari stated this in an interview with journalists shortly after a meeting with stakeholders at Government House, Katsina. The party [...]
There was pandemonium at the headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday as former Vice President Atiku Abubakar submitted his presidential nomination form. The event, which should have been a simple ceremony cheered by supporters, was marred by a [...]
Indications have emerged that leading governorship aspirant in Imo State, Senator Ifeanyi Ararume, and immediate-past national organising secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Osita Izunaso, are set to dump the ruling party for the All Progressives Grand Alliance, [...]
The Presidency on Wednesday, dismissed as wicked and unfounded the conclusion by a media house that President Muhammadu Buhari is sympathetic to the activities of killer herdsmen. In the editorial in question, the newspaper had accused the President of being [...]
Kaduna State Governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai has reiterated his administration’s support for the creative industry. He also said his government is committed to creating a veritable platform for art and culture development in the country. El-Rufai said this yesterday at [...]
Officers of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) yesterday raided the Abuja residence of former Federal Commissioner for Information and elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark. The policemen, who arrived the residence between 12:30 and 1pm, searched the house for over two [...]
Osinbajo got it wrong on restructuring In arguing for good governance, I made the point that our greatest problem was corruption. I pointed out that grand corruption, namely the unbelievable looting of the treasury by simply making huge cash withdrawals [...]
Despite reports that national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State are on a war path, a source close to the governor said he still has a chummy relationship with his [...]
Osinbajo versus Atiku: The debate on the need to restructure the polity gained unusual prominence yesterday as Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar disagreed strongly on what the concept actually means. Atiku, a presidential aspirant, has [...]
Hon. Egwuatu Egbulefu, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia State is dead. Hope For Nigeria gathered that the late Egbulefu, before his sudden death on Monday, had last week picked nomination forms of the PDP in [...]
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Prince Uche Secondus, has berated President Muhammadu Buhari over his refusal to sign the amended Electoral Bill into law. President Buhari had declined assent to the amendment Bill transmitted to him by the National [...]
Baring any last minute change in plan, a former Senate President, David Mark, will on Tuesday officially declare to vie for the seat of the president of Nigeria under the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Mr Mark, a [...]
A new twist has developed in the politics of Kano State as a former governor of the state, Ibrahim Shekarau, has dumped the opposition Peoples Democratic Party. Mr Shekarau’s spokesperson, Ya’u Sule, disclosed the defection in an interview with the [...]
A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos, Ambassador Abayomi Mumuni is under pressure to declare his intention to contest the Lagos Central Senatorial District against Senator Oluremi Tinubu. Though Senator Tinubu has not formally declared her [...]
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, has alleged that corrupt persons are mobilising and ganging up to use their illicit wealth to re-instal President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) come 2019. The [...]
The Nigerian Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, (FOU), Zone ‘A’ Ikeja at the weekend intercepted N1.5 billion worth of petroleum products on the verge of being smuggled to Benin Republic. The petroleum products, loaded in about 12 wooden speedboats, had [...]
Dr. Waripamo-Owei Dudafa yesterday told a Federal High Court in Lagos State that the N1.6 billion linked to him was meant for a church project. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is prosecuting Dudafa, who served under former President [...]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), yesterday, gave details of how MTN Nigeria Limited and four banks perpetrated the $8.13 billion illegal transactions, using false information and deliberate disregard for the rules. The details, which were contained in a CBN’s [...]
Ovation Publisher, Dele Momodu, has criticized supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari. He claimed that those who defended former president Goodluck Jonathan, were smarter. Writing on his verified Twitter page, Momodu said that “everybody is a thief except them”. He tweeted: [...]
The Federal Government has asked the Federal High Court, Abuja to dismiss a suit filed by two former All Progressives Congress (APC) senators, Rabiu Ibrahim Adebayo and Isa Hamma Misau, to stop the Senate from reconvening without the notice of [...]
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has again assured Nigerians that the Lagos-Ibadan railway will be delivered December this year. The minister, who confirmed 60 per cent status of the project during his monthly tour, said 12 kilometres of the [...]
A pro-democracy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has urged the Federal Government to constitute an independent judicial commission of inquiry to probe the invasion of the National Assembly. HURIWA said the panel to be headed by a [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday accused media organisations of bias in reporting conflicts in the country. He made the accusation during an interactive meeting with the Nigerian community in China yesterday. He said while security agencies were doing their best to [...]
A former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, has reacted to reports that the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu was going to takeover the presidency from President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. Senate President, Bukola [...]
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