A senator, Elisha Abbo, caught on camera assaulting a woman, has appeared before a Senate committee set up to investigate the incident. Mr Abbo appeared before the Senate ad-hoc committee on Tuesday afternoon. The Adamawa senator, however, refused to take an oath before the panel. He also refused to speak in the presence of journalists….
An Assistant Presiding Officer 1 during the last presidential election, Mr Ogunsanya Abiola, told the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja on Tuesday, that the Independent National Electoral Commission did not disclose the name of the server into which the results of the poll were said to have been electronically transmitted. Abiola, who appeared before…
the Shiite movement on Tuesday stormed the National Assembly and shot a police officer and a civil defence officer The gates to all the National Assembly premises have been shut. Details soon
The State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Katsina State, Salisu Maijigiri, told the Presidential Election Tribunal, on Tuesday, that his party’s presidential candidate in the February 23 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, defeated President Muhammadu Buhari, in the state. Katsina is Buhari’s home state. Atiku and his party, are by their petition filed before…
With a promise to reactivate all four refineries before the expiration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in 2023, Mele Kyari yesterday took the baton from Dr. Makanti Baru as the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). He also pledged his readiness to work towards the delivery of the Dangote Refinery by…
A civil rights organisation under the aegis of Coalition of Public Interests Lawyers and Advocates, on Monday opened a fresh chapter in the allegation of rape against Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo of Commonwealth Zion Assembly. The organisation specifically said information at its disposal suggested that the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, was planning to transfer the…
The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Walid Jibrin, has said the delay in appointing ministers by President Muhammadu Buhari is not good for the country. Speaking with our correspondent in Abuja on Monday, Jibrin urged the President to hasten the appointment of his ministers. According to him, the…
Petitioners’ second witness at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, Mr. Peter Uzioma Obi, on Monday, said it was wrong to say the results of the February 23, 2019 presidential election were not transmitted electronically. Obi took the witness stand at the instance of the Peoples Democratic Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, who…
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Dayo Adeyeye, said on Sunday that Nigerian senators did not get jumbo salaries as being misconstrued in many quarters. Rather, the National Assembly member, who said the legislature in Nigeria was underfunded, added that what accrued to a senator in Nigeria was not up to…
Modele, wife of the embattled founder of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, Biodun Fatoyinbo, has declared that her husband remains the father of the church. Fatoyinbo had been accused of rape by Mrs Busola Dakolo, wife of inspiration musician, Timi Dakolo, and another unidentified lady within the space of one week. The COZA founder has,…