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What has dominated national discourse after last night’s presidential debate is not the performance of the candidates that participated but mainly the absence of the two main contenders in the February 16 election. President…

After over three and a half years in office, President Muhammadu Buhari means different things to different people in terms of rating. Indeed opinions are divided among Nigerians on whether the President has done enough to fulfil…

Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says many retired generals have ganged up against the re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari. The former Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) chairman…

The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), Federal Capital Territory (FCT) chapter, have commended the Minister of FCT, Muhammad Bello, for paying the backlog of doctors’ salary arrears. Briefing newsmen in Abuja on Saturday, Dr…

The Presidency has expressed “considerable concern and surprise’’, the fake news of the Presidency’s alleged plan to arrest the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen and frame three other Supreme Court Justices. Mr Femi…

Many people, including the PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar have accused President Muhammadu Buhari of not attending Saturday Presidential debate, but the massive crowd that welcomed him to Jos, Plateau State certainly…

Mrs Theresa Jimoh, the mother of business mogul, Jimoh Ibrahim, has been killed in an early morning fire incident in Lagos. The victim, who was about 76 years old, was at her house in the Victoria Garden City, Lagos, when a fire…

Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has explained why he left the venue of the ongoing presidential debate, minutes after the programme started. The presidential debate is organised by…

PDP Presidential Candidate and former Vice President of Nigeria, H. E. Alhaji Atiku Abuakar, GCON The presidential candidates of Nigeria’s ruling and main opposition parties have shunned the presidential debate that is currently…

The presidential debate organised by the Nigeria Elections Debate Group (NEDG) and the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON) has kicked off, with President Muhammadu Buhari, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC),…

A video currently trending online has shown what appears to be protesters disrupting a meeting that was attended by Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Atiku stepped foot for the…

Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is back in Abuja after a visit to the United States of America. He returned to Nigeria on Saturday. He travelled to the US on January 17, 2019 — 13…

Popular American singer, Robert Sylvester Kelly also known as R. Kelly has been dropped by his record label, Sony Music. According to reports, the artiste who is currently facing a series of allegations of abduction, sexual…

The elder brother of Governor Nasir El-Rufai, Ali Rufai, a retired Air Vice Marshall, is dead. Rufai, who died in the early hours of Saturday in Abuja, was born on November 10, 1948 in Zaria, Kaduna State. The death was…

Wife of a former Vice president and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Titi, was on Friday evening attacked by suspected political thugs at Sarkin Sasa house in Ojoo area of Ibadan, Oyo…

Olusegun Osoba, former Ogun governor, says he spent all he had on the governorship bid of Ibikunle Amosun in 2011. Amosun, incumbent governor of the state, was elected on the platform of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN)…

The opposition political parties on Friday claimed they had uncovered a plan by the Federal Government to arrest Onnoghen on Tuesday. The first national spokesperson of the Coalition of United Political Parties, Imo Ugochinyere,…

The National Economic Council (NEC) has approved the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) to address the farmer/herder crisis in the country. Atiku Bagudu, Kebbi governor, disclosed this on Thursday while speaking with…

The Federal Government has filed a motion before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, asking for the removal of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen,  be removed as the CJN and the chairman of the National Judicial…

Two Bugatti, Benz and a N300m duplex were recovered from six Abuja yahoo boys, who were arrested in a raid operatives of the EFCC carried out at various times across a number of locations in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. S …

A Nigerian lady who came with her mum to pack her husband’s properties after he said he is done with the marriage, was spotted fighting with the man in a viral video. S Though where the incident occurred was not…

INEC has said it is ready for Nigeria’s general elections scheduled for February and March. However, this assurance came amidst predictions from different quarters that while there may not be nationwide turmoil, there are fears for…

A Belarusian escort who claimed to have audio recordings that could link Russia with President Trump’s election was detained in Moscow on Thursday, according to Russian news agencies. The escort, Anastasia Vashukevich, was…

Atiku will sell the NNPC. We know he will.  They sold quite a lot the last time. So he didn’t need to swear he would do it. Let his word learn to be his word. Privatization is good. Privatization of inefficient government…