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The senate has adjourned plenary over the case of Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi west. The Kogi lawmaker is said to be at the intensive care unit of the National Hospital, Abuja, at the moment. Bala Na’Allah, deputy leader of…

A federal high court Sitting in Lagos has ordered the remand of Peter Nwaoboshi, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senator from Delta state, in Ikoyi prison, Lagos. The remand order follows the arraignment of the senator by the…

A federal high court in Abuja has ruled that the national assembly does not have the power to amend the election timetable of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Although the move to amend the timetable had sparked…

Protesters on Wednesday morning stormed the National Assembly demanding for the recall of the suspended Senator representing Delta Central Senatorial district, Ovie Omo-Agege. The protesters who are majorly young men carried placards…

Operatives of Special Anti Robbery Squad have stopped the delegation of the Senate from seeing Senator Dino Melaye who is receiving medical attention at the National Trauma Centre unit of the National Hospital, Abuja. Reporters which…

No fewer than 8,000 whistleblowers were recorded by the federal government in the last one year, the Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption (PACAC) has said. Bolaji Owasanoye, executive secretary of PACAC, told NAN that…

Femi Fani-Kayode, former Minister of Aviation has described the purported endorsement of Adams Oshiomole by the All Progressives Congress, APC, as National Chairman as formidable. The South South APC leaders were reported to have…

Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has reacted to the arrest and manhandling of Senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye on Tuesday. The Senator representing Kogi West was admitted in the hospital after he attempted to escape…

Donald Duke, former governor of Cross River state, has reacted angrily to claims made by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former minister of finance, in her latest book. Okonjo-Iweala, a managing director at the World Bank, had said in the book,…

This is very sad…talking about the lengths people go just because of politics. An obituary banner was designed for the ”burial” of senate president, Bukola Saraki over the suspension of senator Ovie Omo-Agege representing Delta Central at…

*24 governors support President’s second term bid, says Okorocha Former Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole looks set to become the next national chairman of the the All Progressives Congress (APC), with the majority of the governors…

The festering crisis of confidence between the Presidency and the National Assembly may have deepened. There were signs yesterday that the Senate may have resolved to dump all Executive communications sent to it for action. The…

As the controversy over the arrest of Senator Dino Melaye rages, the embattled lawmaker’s lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, has accused the police of abducting his client and adopting strategies reminiscent of Adolph Hitler’s Nazi regime. The…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has claimed that the Senator represent Kogi West, Dino Melaye, is being harrassed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) led federal government because he supports the Senate President, Bukola Saraki…

The Nigeria Police Force had issued a statement saying it has re-arrested embattled Senator, Dino Melaye after he attempted escaping from police custody. The Force Public Relations Officer, Jimoh Moshood explained that Melaye was…

Prsident Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday approved the appointments of two Deputy Directors-General for the National Intelligence Agency. They are Ambassador Apollonius Agev and Mr. Kio Amieyeofori. The approval was contained in a…

Senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye, was on Tuesday taken to Zankli hospital in the Mabushi area of Abuja. He was said to have been injured when he allegedly jumped off a police vehicle conveying him to Lokoja, Kogi State.…

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has admitted that his job as the nation’s Number Two man is a very difficult one. He said the job of the President or Vice President was so difficult that one could not do it for a lifetime. According…

Abdulfatah Ahmed, governor of Kwara state, has appointed Abdul-Azeez Muhammad as his special assistant on Fulani affairs. Isiaka Gold, secretary to the state government (SSG), made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Ilorin, the…

Jimoh Moshood, spokesman of the Nigeria Police Force, led at least 30 armed policemen to Zankili Medical Center, Mabushi, Abuja, where Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi west, is being treated. Melaye was admitted into the…

The alleged victim in the sex-for-marks scandal at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Monica Osagie, told an investigative panel that Prof. Richard Akindele deliberately failed her because she refused his sexual demands. Osagie had…

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II has commended Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun state for keeping his campaign promises to the people of Ife and the entire state in the past seven and half years. Oba Ogunwusi…

Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi west, has just been admitted into Zankili Medical Center, Mabuchi, in the federal capital territory (FCT). He was said to have been brought into the hospital after sustaining injuries in a bid…

There was pandemonium at the popular Area 1 roundabout Abuja when suspected thugs loyal to the embattled Senator Dino Melaye (APC, Kogi West) rescued him and whisked him to safety from the fully armed Special Anti-Robbery Squad. The…