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Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has berated gospel preachers for failing to preach against the corruption. Speaking at the 30th National Biennial Conference of the Students Christian Movement of Nigeria holding in Enugu, Osinbajo noted that preachers were preoccupied with preaching prosperity rather than righteousness. “Very rarely do you hear our preachers talk about corruption from […]

Senate President Bukola Saraki and Ike Ekweremadu, deputy senate president, have raised the alarm over the alleged plan of the federal government to incarcerate them. In a statement on Friday, Yusuph Olaniyonu and Uche Anichukwu, their media aides, the legislators said this is part of the plot to remove them from office. The All Progressives Congress […]

No fewer than 21,476 Nigerians have overstayed their visas to the United States within the last one year, Per second news media reports on Thursday. It said that information it gathered from Washington indicated that those who overstayed include students, workers and tourists, with increase in numbers of those that has refused to return to […]

Senate President Bukola Saraki met with chairmen of “45 political parties” yesterday. The nation’s number three citizen disclosed this in a tweet on Thursday. The purpose of the meeting is not known but it comes 24 hours after the senate president visited ex-military President Ibrahim Babangida in Niger state. Saraki avoided journalists when he left IBB’s Minna, […]

Senate President Bukola Saraki says he cannot “descend into the gutter” with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The senate president said this in response to the harsh comments Yekini Nabena, spokesman of APC, made about him. In a statement issued earlier, Nabena described Saraki as a failure who swims in controversy. He said having publicly […]

China appears to be backpedaling on its decades-long policies to limit population growth as it attempts to address a demographic time bomb. The one child policy ran until 2015 when it was partially relaxed to allow some couples to have two children, but families have been slow to embrace official approval to expand. An op-ed […]

The men of the Department of State Security (DSS) that blocked the National Assembly gate on Tuesday to prevent lawmakers from entry had a list of APC senators that they planned to allow into the premises, Senate President Bukola Saraki has said. Saraki said in Abuja on Wednesday that the APC senators were not around […]

A national leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has alleged that some members of the National Assembly were planning to remove President Muhammadu Buhari. But he warned the plotters to drop their sinister move because it is not “possible for a lizard to wrestle an antelope’’. Tinubu spoke on Wednesday at the formal […]

The senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, has finally condemned the unlawful invasion of the national assembly premises by the men of State Security Service, DSS. Many Nigerians including the former President Atiku Abubakar have equally faulted the act. The opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has equally suffixed their voice in condemning the action too. Recall […]

Oluremi Tinubu, senator representing Lagos central, has been ordained as assistant pastor at Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG). She was ordained alongside 11,249 officials of the church. Bola Tinubu, her husband, was among those who witnessed the ordination.   H

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says President Muhammadu Buhari’s integrity remains intact, in spite of the allegation of certificate forgery against his Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun. Mr Mohammed said this on Monday when he paid an official visit to the Abuja office of The Authority Newspaper. Responding to a question from […]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has denied claim that it invited President Muhammadu Buhari as its keynote speaker during its 20th anniversary because he had the highest rating on integrity. A lawmaker, Abdulmumin Jibrin in an interview on a national television in July claimed that the ICC invited Buhari as its keynote speaker, because he is the […]

The Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has distanced the national oil company and its Group Managing Director, Maikanti Baru, from the ongoing political tango in the National Assembly and the trending reports in some section of the media insinuating that the corporation’s helmsman had doled out funds to effect the impeachment of […]