NYSC sued over Adeosun’s exception certificate allegation

The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Brigadier-General Sule Kazaure and the NYSC has been sued by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) over failure to publish specific documents and information on Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun’s application for NYSC exemption, and also seeking to compel them to explain if Adeosun obtained any […]

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The people Buhari, Tinubu, Saraki, Akpabio should emulate, By Tunde Odesola

The bypass to hell shouldn’t be Nigeria. It should be Australia because Australia was founded by convicts. Formerly called New South Wales, Australia is just 230 years old. The United States is merely two years older. When Captain Arthur Phillip led a fleet of 11 British ships consisting of  736 male and female convicts from […]

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Pastor Fatoyinbo, asked students to sow N500k as seeds; Nigerians react (Video)

OAP/Leader of the Free the Sheeple movement, Daddy Freeze, shared a video of Abuja-based clergyman, Biodun Fatoyinbo, asking students to sow seeds of N500k. The video got a lot of reactions from many Nigerian celebrities, most of them shocked that he could ask students who are not working to sow that much as seed. One […]

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Another PDP presidential aspirant in closed-door meeting with Obasanjo

Gombe State Governor, Mr. Ibrahim Dakwambo, is currently in a closed door meeting with the former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Mr Dakwambo, a presidential aspirant under the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) arrived his host’s private residence located inside the premises of Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta and shortly entered into the meeting. The meeting […]

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Dauragate and the Shame of a Nation, By Reuben Abati

The week that just passed will for long be remembered as perhaps the most momentous week in the history of the Muhammadu Buhari administration since 2015. Exactly a week ago, officers of the Department of State Security Services (DSS), acting under the instructions of their boss at the time, Lawal Daura, wearing hoods, stormed the […]

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Why Nigerian Senate, Reps can’t reconvene on Tuesday -Saraki, Dogara

Statement issued by respective spokespersons, Yusuph Olaniyonu, (Senate) and Turaki Hassan (Reps): “The Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki and Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, have directed that we inform all Senators, Honorable members and the public that a date has not been set for the reconvening of the Senate and the […]

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Saraki’s Impeachment: Nigeria’s AGF, IGP, DSS dragged to court

A suit has been instituted at the federal high court, Abuja, to restrain the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the Department of State Services (DSS) from supporting any effort to sack Nigerian Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki through means other than that provided for under Section 50(2)(c […]

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Saraki and Obasanjo hold a closed-door meeting

President of Nigerian Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki is currently in a closed-door meeting with former Nigerian president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. Senator Saraki arrived at the home of Chief Obasanjo in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital on Monday evening. Details of the meeting have not been made public, but there are insinuations that it may be […]

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The Nine Kinds Of People Supporting Buhari For A Second Term, By ‘Fisayo Soyombo

Corruption is fighting back! That is the constant refrain from the people in government and their supporters to criticisms of President Muhammadu Buhari or opposition to his re-election ambition. If, for example, you’re a journalist and you believe the president hasn’t done enough to earn a second term, it is because brown envelopes have been […]

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Nigerian soldiers protest, seize Maiduguri airport

The Nigerian Army said calm has been restored at Maiduguri Airport seized for two hours on Sunday by riotous troops, that it described as ‘unscrupulous”. In a statement on Monday, Onyema Nwachukwu, Deputy Director Public Relations, Operation Lafiya Dole Theatre Command, said the protest by the soldiers happened while the command was conducting a redeployment […]

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CAN responds to Osinbajo over his attack on pastors about corruption

Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has responded to the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo’s attack on Nigerian Pastors for not preaching against corruption. Osinbajo had berated Pastors for failing to lend support to the Federal Government’s anti-corruption war at the 30th National Biennial Conference of the Students Christian Movement of Nigeria holding in Enugu, adding that preachers […]

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Saraki is special guest at Ojude-Oba festival, worries APC

Some of the APC’s stalwarts in Ogun state have expressed their displeasure over the invitation of Senate president, Dr. Bukola Saraki as Special Guest at the coming Ojude-Oba festival, stating that such invitation tends to legitimise Saraki’s “defiant attitudes” against the APC party. They argued that Saraki‘s presence in the state could trigger violent reactions […]

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Afenifere, Ohanaeze, NEF, others demand judicial inquiry on NASS siege

Nigerian Leaders and Elders comprising of Afenifere, Northern Elders’ Forum, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, and the Middle Belt Forum, have advised the acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo to set up a Judicial Panel of Inquiry to investigate the recent siege at the National Assembly. The forums said that the proposed panel should be […]

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R-APC unravels Oshiomhole’s plans to remove Saraki on Tuesday

Reformed-All Progressives Congress (R-APC) has alleged fresh plans by the APC national chairman, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole to remove the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki at all cost on Tuesday. In a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary of the R-APC, Kassim Afegbua, the R-APC has called on Nigerians to be vigilant as the nation’s […]

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