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Oby Ezekwesili has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s signing of a $382 million loan deal … Read more via Daily Trust – https://ift.tt/2PDZNRb Get More Nigeria Political News

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the dissolution of the Governing Board of National Business and Technical Examination Board (NABTEB). READ MORE HERE

There is a surging trend of Nigerians committing suicide with about 80 killed in the last 13 months, according to reported incidents collated by Daily Trust. Seventy-nine people had committed suicide between April 8, 2017, and May 12 this year, according to the data obtained by Daily Trust from...

There was pandemonium at the popular Area 1 roundabout Abuja when suspected thugs loyal to the embattled Senator Dino Melaye (APC, Kogi West) rescued him and whisked him to safety from the fully armed Special Anti-Robbery Squad. READ MORE HERE

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, yesterday said that another list of treasury looters would be released very soon by the Federal Government and that many unexpected names will be revealed. The minister said no amount of intimidation from any side could stop the...

Respected Russia ex-coach Boris Ignatyev has shared his thoughts on the performance of Aaron Samuel in Amkar Perm’s 2-1 win over Lokomotiv Moscow in which he scored a brace. Ignatyev noted that there was nothing special about the two goals scored by the CSKA Moscow loanee, adding that he’s...

One of the Dapchi girls freed from Boko Haram captivity says five girls died “due to congestion” in a vehicle after they were abducted. Fatsima Abdullahi, a 15-year-old SS1 student, is number 73 on the list of abducted Dapchi girls published by the federal information ministry. In a phone...

A woman identified as Zainab has given birth to a baby with 4 legs and 2 genital at Sabon Garin Makiyawa in Magama Jibia, Katsina State. According to Dailytrust, 20-year-old Zainab delivered the baby on March 9, 2018. She has been married to her husband Hassan for four years and are already...

Some legislators are deep-neck in a process to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to reject an amendment to the Electoral Act, and leaders of both chambers of the National Assembly are not amused at each other’s position. There is a simmering disagreement between the Senate...

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Senator Abdullahi Adamu (APC, Nasarawa) yesterday said no amount of intimidation would stop him from supporting President Muhammadu Buhari. He said it was unfortunate that lawmakers of the All Progressives Congress were sabotaging the President...

President Muhammadu Buhari said he quietly reprimanded the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, over the killings in Benue State. Buhari said this at the Government House Makurdi yesterday during a town-hall meeting with leaders of various groups in the state. Presidential spokesman...

Few hours after the death of Abubakar Saleh Michika, the first civilian governor of Adamawa State, his family accused the state government of abandoning him. In an exclusive interview with Daily Trust, his son, Abdurrashid Saleh Michika, said government refused to release his entitlement as...

The Federal Government said it has appropriated over N600 million in the 2018 budget for execution of capital projects at the National Board for Arabic and Islamic Studies (NBAIS), just as it has committed N200 million to rehabilitation of the board's buildings ceded to it by the government...

Some PDP governors between Sunday night and early yesterday held a closed door meeting at the Government House in Gombe, where they reportedly discussed “the excessive powers” being wielded by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State with a view to checkmating him. Sources said the meeting which...

Parents of the abducted Dapchi school girls said yesterday that government has not reached out to them since the incident. Malam Bashir Manzo, chairman of the abducted school girls’ parents in Dapchi, lamented that since the day of the abduction, government has not called or invited them...

Senate President Bukola Saraki yesterday explained the reasons why he was absent at key meetings of the All Progressives Congress (APC) held last week. Saraki’s absence at both the National Caucus and National Executive Council (NEC) meetings of his party heightened speculations of his plan to...

State governors under the All Progressive Congress ( APC) Governors Forum, today stormed Katsina on four chattered planes ahead of their meetings with President Muhammadu Buhari in his country home, Daura. Buhari had arrived a day earlier and proceeded to Daura before today's arrival of the...

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Uche Secondus, yesterday, said some governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the North Central will soon join them. Secondus said they were already in talks with the affected governors who would...

Chief John Odigie Oyegun, the national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), had maintained an impressive record of being punctual at the party’s national secretariat located at plot number 40 Blantyre Street, Wuse II Abuja. But soon after President Muhammadu Buhari announced...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday approved the compulsory retirement of Honourable Justice A. F. A Ademola of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court and the dismissal from office of Honourable Justice O.O Tokode of the Benin Division of the Federal High Court. The Senior Special...