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The Presidency has described reports that President Muhammadu Buhari has extended his ongoing 10-day vacation in London as “fake”. The official twitter handle of the presidency @NGRPresident, late Tuesday night, dismissed the report, saying it is an old story which was first circulated during the president’s vacation in Feb. 2017. The presidency enjoined Nigerians to […]

The All Progressives Congress, APC has disclosed that the party is working with some senators from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in its quest to remove the president of the senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki. This was disclosed in a statement by its Acting National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Yekini Nabena. “As a Party, we don’t believe […]

Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial nerve center, is the third worst city to live in among 140 cities worldwide. The revelation is according to the Economist Intelligence Unit, EIU’s 2018 ranking of the world’s most liveable cities. The city was ranked 138th of the 140 countries ranked by the EIU. With a relatively low score of 38.5 […]

The country’s debt profile now stands at N22.38tn, the Debt Management Office has said. At a press briefing in Abuja on Tuesday, the Debt Management Office said the country’s debt stood at N22.38tn as of June 30. It also disclosed that the nation’s debt profile rose by 3.01 per cent in the last six months. […]

The Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, says it has been difficult for an Igbo to become president of Nigeria because the people have a knack to drag down their rising leaders. According to a report by The Punch newspaper, the governor stated this in an interview with journalists on Sunday at the Government House, Owerri. […]

Senate President Bukola Saraki visited the hilltop mansion of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta, Ogun state capital, on Monday. Accompanied by some of his associates, the nation’s number three citizen went into a meeting with the elder statesman. At the end of the meeting, Saraki told journalists he was in Abeokuta to see Obasanjo […]

The blue light from digital devices like smartphones could accelerate blindness, researchers found. According to a research by the University of Toledo in the U.S., exposure to blue light continuously might cause poisonous molecules to be generated in the eye’s light-sensitive cells and lead to macular degeneration. Reaserachers said as one of the leading causes […]

As previously rumored, the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 smartphone was unveiled in Brooklyn, New York, last week Thursday, and the device will be available in stores on 24 August 2018. Curiously though, no information is available on Galaxy Note 9 Plus, suggesting that Samsung might be doing away with the “Plus” series. Compared to the […]

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 […]