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Senate President Bukola Saraki hurriedly announced his defection from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday evening because he was about to be expelled from the party, it has been revealed.…

The disagreement between the Federal Government and power distribution companies continued on Tuesday, with the Discos threatening to quit the sector and expressed willingness to resell the power assets at discounted rates. Investors…

The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, is plotting to remain in office despite defecting from the governing All Progressives Congress (APC), PREMIUM TIMES has learnt. Mr Saraki had on Tuesday renounced his membership of the…

Mossack Fonseca, the embattled Panama-based law firm at the centre of the global offshore leak known as Panama Papers, has recused itself as the registered agent of Sutton Energy Limited (SEL), a shell company co-owned by Laolu Saraki,…

The Deputy Head of the European Union, Richard Young, on Tuesday said that about 60,000 Nigerians are being camped in Libya. According to the official, these Nigerians are stranded in Libya. “I think roughly, 80,000 people from…

Malam Bolaji Abdullahi, the National Publicity Secretary of All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed speculations that he has resigned his membership of the party. He told newsmen at the APC secretariat in Abuja on Tuesday that…

Mixed reactions yesterday trailed the defection of Senate President Bukola Saraki from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). While many chieftains acknowledged that the ruling party has lost a big…

President Muhammadu Buhari was yesterday elected the Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Buhari’s election was one of the highpoints of the 53rd…

Senate President Bukola Saraki says he tried his best to reconcile with members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) but he was shown the way out. Saraki said this while announcing his defection from the ruling party to the Peoples…

Nigerians have reacted to Senate President Bukola Saraki’s formal announcement to dump the All Progressives Congress, APC. Saraki after much consultations on Tuesday evening dumped the party. Nigerians in reaction expressed…

Ahmed Abdulfatah, Governor of Kwara State, has announced his defection from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Announcing his defection on Tuesday evening, minutes after Senate President Bukola…

Ike Ekwremadu, Deputy Senate President, is currently with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). SaharaReporters understands that Ekweremadu arrived the office of the Commission at about 9am for interrogation on alleged…

Senate President Bukola Saraki has pulled out of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The senate president made his decision known on Tuesday evening. See his tweet below:…

A former Governor of Lagos State and Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, has offered to build a complex to house the faculty of arts at the Lagos State University (LASU)) in Ojo. The Vice-Chancellor of LASU, Prof.…

The management of Ecobank on Tuesday said the fire incident at its head office in Victoria Island on the early hours of Tuesday (today) didn’t affect any major equipment and document as speculated on social media. The bank in a…

Muhammed Idris, judge of the federal high court in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Tuesday, dismissed a no-case submission filed by Orji Uzor Kalu, a former governor of Abia state, in his bid to stop his trial over an alleged N3.2bn fraud. Kalu…

A High Court in Owerri, the Imo State Capital, has stopped the swearing-in of Mr Calistus Ekenze as the new Deputy Governor of the state. The court ruling came in on Tuesday morning just as Mr Ekenze was about to be sworn in. The…

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, to urgently convene a summit on education to address the issue of funding for the sector. This was disclosed, on Monday, by the Permanent…

WhatsApp is finally rolling out group video- and voice-calls to its 1.5 billion users around the world. The new feature was first teased by its parent company, Facebook, at its annual F8 developers conference in May, but now it’s ready…

The ride-hailing business Uber has shut its self-driving trucks division to focus solely on its research with autonomous cars. Although the division had completed a delivery of Budweiser beer in 2016, it is now shutting down as the…

The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar, has disclosed that bandits attacking Zamfara State and others are being funded by politicians. He spoke in Bauchi weekend while commissioning Small Arms Shooting Range and personnel…

Kunle Rasheed Adegoke, a governorship aspirant, has asked the Abuja federal high court to nullify the Osun primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Isiaka Oyetola, a cousin to Bola Tinubu, chieftain of the APC,…

The organised labour has called on the Federal Government to immediately review the privatisation of the power sector and revoke the licences of Electricity Generation Companies, GENCOs and Electricity Distribution Companies, DISCOs, to…

Some protesters on Tuesday morning stormed the headquarters of Nigeria’s ruling party, APC, demanding the sack of Senate President Bukola Saraki from the party. The protesters, who said they were members of the APC in Kwara, also…