archiveDecember 10, 2018

    A former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), has urged the National Assembly to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto on the 2018 Electoral Act. Agbakoba, in a letter to the legislators, said Buhari’s reason for withholding assent to the bill did not make...

    The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has condemned the distribution of cash to Nigerians by the federal government very close to the general elections. Mr Dogara stated this on Monday during a public hearing organised by the National Assembly Joint Committee on INEC and Political...

A claim that Nigeria is the world’s ‘highest producer of HIV-infected babies’ made by the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has been confirmed as accurate. At the inauguration of a project to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Nigeria, Adewole said, “There is absolutely no reason why Nigeria should...

For demonstrating courage and doggedness in releasing video clips that portray Governor Umar Ganduje of Kano state receiving bribes from contractors, the Publisher of Daily Nigerian, an online news medium, Mr. Jaafar Jaafar, has bagged 2018 Integrity Award. The award, which was presented on Sunday at a gala night in...

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed on Monday declared that President Muhammadu Buhari would defeat the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, despite his endorsement by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Mohammed made the boast during a media briefing on the current developments in the polity in...

    The Federal Government would no longer accept excuses from Electricity Distribution companies for failure to distribute power to consumers. Minister of State I for Power, Works and Housing, Mustapha Shehuri, who gave the warning on Monday during an inspection of a 132 KVA Transmission Substation in Uyo, expressed...

  Oliver Stolpe, Country Representative, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), has said that the world loses $2.3 trillion to corruption annually. He disclosed this at the Corruption Risk Assessment (CRA) training organised for Heads of Anti-Corruption Agencies of member-countries of African Union (AU) in Abuja, on Monday....

  Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has issued a warning to Nigerians that re-electing President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 will bring more suffering to them. Obasanjo’s comment was contained in a statement to the press by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, where he clarified his support for Atiku and advised Nigerians...

  Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the problem with Nigeria is not about resources or planning, but the poor management of resources in the past. This was contained in a statement by Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President, Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, on Monday...