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Today's News Highlights Include: Election Tribunal: INEC presiding officers to testify for Atiku, say results transmitted electronically – Premium Times Nigeria...

Today's News Highlights Includes; Lai: This government has sent corruption under the carpet - The Cable https://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/lai-this-government-has-sent-corruption-under-the-carpet-the-cable.382369/ Presidency fires back at Actress Omotola for saying “Nigeria is hellish...

Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha in his quest to foist his son-in-law and chief of staff, Hon. Uche Nwosu, as his successor, has concluded arrangement to arm twist Imo lawmakers into endorsing his son-in-law, believing that their endorsement could give his daughter’s husband some political...

The Senate on Wednesday told the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to allow the 2017 Budget run till May 31 instead of March 31. The resolution followed the adoption of a Point-of-Order raised by Sen. Atai Aidoko. Read more via Daily Post Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2GxidCz -- Get...

Former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Attahiru Jega has said the current leadership of the Commission has made significant and commendable progress since taking over in November 2015. Jega who spoke as a keynote speaker at the National Judicial Institute...

Hon. Julius Pondi, member representing Burutu Federal Constituency in Delta state was pictured sharing sachet garri to some of his constituents while in a boat cruise. According to report,the content of the sachet is not more than half basket of garri which goes for N200 market price. It...

Saying that voting for Buhari is the easiest way for the Igbo to produce the president of this country is arrant nonsense. If you like, give Buhari 100 per cent vote, it would not improve your chances of producing the president of this country. READ MORE HERE

Alhaji Dahiru Yusuf Yabo is a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Sokoto State, and an avid supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari. He was the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) governorship candidate in the state in 2011. Yabo is also a member of a political frontier known as APC...

Governor Nasir El-Rufai has said the assessment of Mr. Bill Gate, the founder of Microsoft Corporation, about President Muhammadu Buhari’s Economic Policy is not correct. Mr. Gates had faulted President Buhari’s Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP), stating the plan does not have the...

A former President, Goodluck Jonathan, on Tuesday said Vice President Yemi Osinbajo lied over claims that the Jonathan administration embezzled some funds a few weeks to the 2015 general elections. Mr. Jonathan’s reaction was contained in a statement by his former spokesperson, Reno Omokri. The...

The Police have charged Senator Dino Melaye and three others with criminal conspiracy and unlawful possession of prohibited firearms before a Federal High Court in Lokoja. Police spokesman Jimoh Moshood, an assistant commissioner of police, told reporters in Lokoja yesterday that the case was...

In a departure from the mantra of the administration, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo Monday in Abuja admitted that the federal government is yet to deal effectively with the menace of corruption in the country. Speaking at the 7th Presidential Quarterly Business Forum for private sector...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo; the immediate past Governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso and some political parties have been meeting as part of moves to strategise for the 2019 elections, The PUNCH has learnt. In one of such meetings, which held at Protea Hotel, located at 42/44...

Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Speaker, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, have jointly reacted to withholding of assent by President Muhammadu Buhari on the Electoral Act Amendment Bill. Recall that Buhari on Tuesday turned down the amended Electoral Act bill in letters addressed to Saraki and...

About 300 members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Bauchi State have again defected to New Nigerian People’s Party NNPP chairman Bogoro LGA branch in Bauchi State, Mr Andrew Simon received the decampees in Boi Ward. READ MORE HERE

There were indications last night that the order of the 2019 general election was not one of the issues President Muhammadu Buhari discussed with the Senate President Bukola Saraki, House of Representatives Speaker Yakubu Dogara and other leaders of the National Assembly at a meeting they held …...

The Senate has resolved to write the Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Walter Onnoghen, to expressed their reservations about the judgment by a Federal High Court stopping the National Assembly from overriding President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto on the amended Electoral Act. READ MORE...

A luxury mansion co-owned by a former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, and his fourth wife, Jennifer Douglas, in the posh neighbourhood of Potomac, Maryland, United States, has been auctioned. The property gained international notoriety in 2005 after it was searched by the Federal Bureau of...

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, in Yobe State, said his administration’s prompt response to the abduction of 110 students of Government Girls Technical College, Dapchi, was a clear departure from what he described as “the insensitivity of the past administration” that couldn’t do anything...

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...