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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday asked the people of the South East geopolitical zone to vote out President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 general elections “in their own interest.” Speaking at a meeting of the Coalition…

An interest group in Ekiti State All Progressives Congress (APC) has threatened to go to court to challenge the eligibility of the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, if cleared to contest at the May 5 primary.…

The Nigerian Army on Wednesday promised to make public the findings of the panel set up to investigate the allegations levelled against it by former Minister of Defence, Gen. T.Y. Danjuma (retd). The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen.…

An Ugandan politician, Geoffrey Dhamuzungu, has been hospitalized after he consumed poisoned pork offered to him by a voter from his constituency. The Budiope Member of Parliament in Uganda was admitted at Case clinic where he is…

Nonkanyiso Conco, the potential bride of the former South African president, Jacob Zuma, has been forced to resign from her job as the National Executive Committee Treasurer and Communications officer at a non-profit organization. The 24…

A jilted wife has shot a woman she believed was having an affair with her husband in an ambush that ended in a murder-suicide. Police in Pennsylvania, USA said Jennair Gerardot, 48, meticulously planned the grisly killing on Monday night…

Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president, says President Muhammadu Buhari would not describe Nigerian youth as lazy if he were an employer of labour. President Buhari had said most Nigerian youth just want to sit down and do nothing…

Senate President Bukola Saraki says Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi west, has not eaten in 24 hours. Melaye is currently in a hospital after sustaining injuries while trying to escape from the police vehicle conveying him to a…

A Federal Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mr. Mohammed Haruna, has said that the Commission will be engaging the services of over 2,000 ad hoc staff in the recall process of the senator representing Kogi…

The Lagos State Government on Wednesday said all is set for the prosecution of a Danish national, Peter Nielsen, for the murder of his Nigerian wife, Zainab, and three-year-old daughter, Petra, in Banana Island area of Ikoyi on April 5,…

The House of Representatives has summoned President Muhammadu Buhari over the unending killings by herdsmen in Benue State and other parts of the country. The motion to summon Buhari was moved by an All Progressives Congress member…

Information reaching us indicate that Senator Dino Melaye was handcuffed to his hospital bed as police officers relocate him to the National Hospital, Abuja, where he is currently recuperating, Independent reports. The lawmaker was…

A group known as Coalition of Abia South Senatorial Movement (CASSM) says it has commenced the recall process of Eyninaya Abaribe, senator representing Abia south. Speaking at a meeting in Aba, Abia state, on Tuesday, Paul Ikonne,…

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…