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Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, says Shehu Sani’s revelation that every senator gets paid N13.5 million monthly proves Nigerian legislators are the highest paid in the world. The senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN) said Sani’s disclosure validates a statement made to the effect by Itse Sagay, chairman, presidential advisory committee against corruption (PACAC). He commended […]

The Senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has angered a number of his colleagues for lifting the veil on the N13.5million illegal allowances members of the upper legislative chambers receive each month in addition to their legitimate salaries and allowances. Some lawmakers who spoke to Premium Times but asked not to be named said the […]

A food expert in Nigeria has alerted the federal government on the continuous use of a banned substance, potassium bromate, in bakeries. Oladunni Akinnawo, a professor of food chemistry at Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo State, said a recent study she conducted in Ibadan and Oyo towns, for instance, indicated the use of potassium bromate in […]

  Uche Secondus, national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says Nigerian will have a woman as president “one day”. The PDP chairman said on Thursday that men in leadership positions have failed “over the years”. He urged women in the country to vie for political offices to better political participation. Secondus gave the […]

Mauritian President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim is to resign after becoming embroiled in a financial scandal, Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth announced on Friday. Gurib-Fakim, who is the only female head of state in Africa, has been accused of using a bank card provided by an NGO to make personal purchases and will step down after ceremonies to […]

1. International Women’s Day is largely aimed at inspiring women across the world and celebrating their achievements. 2. Its roots are in movements campaigning for better pay and voting rights. 3. The first National Women’s Day was marked on 28 February 1909 in the United States after a declaration by the Socialist Party of America. […]

In a tweet that appears to mock the 90th Oscars which held on Sunday, President Donald Trump has said it was the lowest-rated Oscars in history. The reason, he says, is because there are no stars anymore; putting himself up as the superstar of all times. He quickly adds, though, that he was merely joking […]

President Muhammadu Buhari  on Tuesday said the Boko Haram sect was no longer a serious fighting force despite the ugly incidents witnessed recently in Dapchi, Yobe State and Rann, Borno State. The sect had abducted 110 pupils from the Government Science and Technical Girls College, Dapchi and killed United Nations’ aid workers rendering humanitarian service […]

Toni Iwobi, a Nigerian IT entrepreneur who has spent 38 years in Italy, has become the first black senator in the European country. He was elected in the industrial city of Brescia in northern Italy. “Friends, it is with great emotion that I inform you that I was elected senator of the Republic!” he said in a […]

President Donald Trump said executing drug dealers would help solve the opioid crisis currently gripping the United States. Addressing a meeting of lawmakers at the White House Thursday, Trump said: “You have to have strength, and you have to have toughness. “The drug dealers, the drug pushers, are really doing damage, some countries have a […]

A bill prescribing death by hanging for any person found guilty of any form of hate speech that results in the death of another person has received the first reading at the Senate. The bill, sponsored by the Senate spokesperson, Sabi Abdullahi (Niger-APC), seeks the establishment of an Independent National Commission for Hate Speeches. The […]

As the Nigerian government extended to neighbouring countries the search for the 110 schoolgirls abducted last week in Dapchi, Yobe State, a human rights activist, Aisha Wakil, claimed a Boko Haram faction had contacted her to confirm it has the girls. Aisha Wakil, who is also known as Mama Boko Haram, was a member of […]