Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and presidential candidate of Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has lost over 200,000 members of his Atiku Care Foundation as seven coordinators of the group from the North-West states defected to the All Progressive Congress (APC), declaring loyalty to President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2019 re-election bid. The group which officially joined one of President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign ... Read More »

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has suspended till further notice, orientation course for the 2018 Batch C Stream I, scheduled to commence on Tuesday, following unfavorable security reports. A statement by Mrs Adenike Adeyemi, the NYSC Director of Press, issued on Monday in Abuja, advised prospective corps members posted to the Kaduna state to remain at home until further ... Read More »

BREAKING: Ambode Hasn’t Committed Any Impeachable Offence, Says Lagos Assembly Speaker ….. Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has not committed any impeachable offence,” he said. Mudashiru Obasa, Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, has dismissed rumours of plans by the House to impeach Akinwunmi Ambode, Governor of the state. He stated this during the plenary session of the House on ... Read More »

. …As police teargassed workers   There seems to be no end to the suspension drama of the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Prof. Usman Yusuf. Yusuf who was suspended last Thursday over some alleged infringement Monday forced his way into office.y forced his way into office. The council had noted that he would not be ... Read More »

THE organised labour is spoiling for war with the Federal Government over the controversies surrounding the new National Minimum Wage and the decision of the government to adopt a “no work, no pay” posture to force workers from going on strike. Labour leaders are of the opinion that the Federal Government was deliberately sabotaging the plan to arrive at a ... Read More »

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has sent the name of the President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, to the Independent National Electoral Commission as a senatorial candidate. The name of Saraki was among the list of candidates submitted to the commission in Abuja on Thursday night. Saraki, who represents Kwara Central District in the Senate, was ... Read More »

Bank customers have expressed gratitude to the Senate for its directive to the Central Bank of Nigeria to suspend the monthly Automated Teller Machine card maintenance fee imposed on users by commercial banks. The President, Bank Customers Association of Nigeria, Dr Uju Ogubunka, described the directive as a good development for the industry and bank customers using the facility. He ... Read More »

  A hearing in the court case between MTN and the Central Bank of Nigeria in a dispute over the alleged transfer of $8.1bn of funds by the telecom firm has been set for October 30, a lawyer for MTN said on Friday. MTN has denied claims that it depleted Nigeria’s foreign exchange reserves, the South African telecom group’s lawyer, ... Read More »

  The police will on October 31 arraign the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate in the recent Osun State election, Senator Ademola Adeleke, for alleged examination malpractice, criminal conspiracy, and impersonation. The police also accused the senator of presenting a forged birth certificate, stating that in his National Examination Council 2017 result obtained by detectives, he claimed that he was ... Read More »

The United States Government has in Katsina State declared that it has no preferred Presidential candidate in the forth coming general elections in Nigeria next year, but that it prefers a transparent and violent free process that ensures the election of a candidate freely chosen by Nigerians The US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr W Stuwart Symington who was represented by ... Read More »