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The battle for control of the Senate was last night set to take a more violent form as a campaign group for President Muhammadu Buhari, the Buhari Campaign Organisation yesterday vowed to physically take over the National Assembly complex if Senate President Bukola Saraki does not resign from...

An Ondo State High Court sitting in Okitipupa, weekend, dismissed a suit challenging the appointment of Professor Sunday Adejimola Amuseghan as the Kalasuwe of Apoiland in the Ese-Odo area of the state. Professor … Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2Mb6cGl Get More Nigeria...

The Director-General, National Youth Service Corp (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Suleiman Kazaure, on Sunday, urged corps members to actively participate in skills acquisition trainings in order to make them self-reliant. Kazaure gave … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper – Nigeria and World...

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has berated gospel preachers for failing to lend support to the Federal Government’s anti-corruption war by failing to preach against the scourge. Speaking at the 30th National Biennial Conference of the Students Christian Movement (SCM) of Nigeria holding in...

Mrs Abbey Ukpukpen, widow of a member of the Cross River House of Assembly, Stephen Ukpukpen, has taken over her husband’s seat, following her victory at the Obudu Constituency by-election, held on Saturday. The late Ukpukpen’s seat was declared vacant after he passed on in May 2018. Ukpukpen...

public affairs analyst, Boladale Adekoya, has advised the leadership and members of the main opposition, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to do everything within their power to ensure former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, clinch the presidential ticket of the party if they are serious about...

The National Industrial Court, Lagos Division, has restrained the National Union of Electricity Employees from further picketing the offices of Ikeja Electric Plc. The protesting workers had last week Wednesday started picketing and shutting down operations at the headquarters of the Ikeja...

Maryam Sanda, the Abuja-based woman alleged to have murdered her husband, Bilyamin Bello, in 2017, has been delivered of a baby boy. When SaharaReporters reached out to a source in the late Bello’s family to confirm the information, the source said he was unaware and asked to be … Read more...

Samson Folarin Risikatu Uthman, a 14-year-old pupil of a public secondary school in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State who got missing about two months ago, has been found. She reportedly returned home on Thursday, saying she was abducted by human traffickers, who allegedly sold her to Burkina …...

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted thunderstorms and rains over Sokoto, Gusau, Katsina, Kano, Kebbi and Dutse during the morning hours on Monday. NiMet made this known in its Weather Outlook by its Central Forecast Office in Abuja on Sunday. It predicted chances of …...

Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah said yesterday that the gale of defection from party A to party B and defection along same line witnessed lately in Nigeria was simply but an indication that the nation still have a long way to go as far … Read more via Leadership...

There were indications yesterday that pressure is being mounted on Gombe State governor and a presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo, to drop his ambition ahead of the party’s presidential primary election. LEADERSHIP gathered that Dankwambo who...

Orji Uzor Kalu, Former Abia State Governor has expressed concern at the gale of defections hitting major political parties. DAILY POST reports that in recent weeks, governors, lawmakers and other top members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) have...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sunday, said it uncovered a fresh plot by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the cabal in the Buhari Presidency to use security agencies and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to invite, arrest and detain Senate President Bukola Saraki...

The Benue State Government has fired back at Steve Lawani, the immediate past deputy governor of the state over his recent media attack on Governor Samuel Ortom. Lawani had in a recent interview, claimed that the party chased Ortom away for his alleged poor performance. Responding to … Read...

Soldiers of the Special Strike Forces deployed in Operation Lafiya Dole have protested against their posting to Marte, a Local Government Area (LGA) in Northern Borno State. The soldiers reacted to the news of the latest posting on Sunday evening by firing gunshots in the air … Read more...