Pres. Buhari assenting padded 2022 budget, but rejecting Electoral Bill: Gov. Wike’s stinger
A tart reaction from Rivers Gov. Nyesom Wike has trailed President Muhammadu Buhari’s assenting the “padded and unimplementable 2022 budget” and rejecting...
17 months to go: Buhari names Ass. Prof. Doyin Salami, his Chief Economic Adviser
Barely 17 months to exit office, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has announced the appointment of Dr Doyin Salami, as his Chief Economic Adviser....
2022 federal budget: Buhari to spend N2.3bn on local, foreign trips, Osinbajo N777m
Ostensibly in pursuit of his diplomatic shuttle and foreign investment drive across the world, President Muhammadu Buhari is to spend about N2.3...
MKO Abiola’s poll challenger, Bashir Tofa, 1993 NRC Presidential Candidate, dies
The 1993 June 12 Presidential Candidate of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC), Alhaji Bashir Othman Tofa, from Kano, has passed on....
2021 in review: the good, the ugly, the tragedies
Like every other year in Nigeria, the year 2021 was not turmoil-free; it has its ups and downs. As Nigerians put the...
Minor fire at Port Harcourt refinery put out, authorities say
The early Saturday morning fire at the Port Harcourt Refining Company (PHRC) has been put out, authorities have said. As...
Nigerian nurse in U.S. jailed three years for sexually abusing patients
A Nigerian health worker, Godbless Uwadiegwu, who pleaded guilty to sex crimes involving memory care patients in the United States, has...
Approach 2022 with optimism, positive disposition, Archbishop Martins urges Nigerians
The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev. Dr Alfred Adewale Martins has enjoined Nigerians to be optimistic and embrace a positive...
Buhari signs N17.126trillion 2022 budget, queries NASS over ‘additions and reductions’
By Ajuma Edwina Ameh Unimpressed with the alterations made in the 2022 Appropriation Bill, President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday signed the...
21 famous persons, celebrities, royalty, church leaders, who exited the world in 2021
The year 2021 came with its challenges, turbulence and calamities, leaving in its trail fatalities especially of no fewer than 21 notable personalities...
Buhari administration’s scorecard for 2021: Its stellar performance, says Information Minister
In spite of insecurity and the COVID-19-triggered economic and health challenges which confronted the country, the Minister of Information and Culture,...
Igbo presidency not a right, requires negotiation, conversation with all parts of Nigeria — Abia Gov
Abia Governor Okezie Ikpeazu says Nigeria’s president of Igbo extraction come 2023 is a national question that requires negotiation, discussion and conversation...
Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, humiliates COVID-19, recuperating
Few days after he contracted COVID-19, the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu,...
Former US Senate leader Harry Reid dead at 82
Former US Senate majority leader Harry Reid, who rose from humble beginnings to lead the upper chamber during the presidencies of George...
Christmas tragedy: Prostrated by alcohol, sexagenarian-herbalist’s dick chopped off by his own dog
A boozehound and prostrate alcoholic, who is a popular herbalist, has died of dog bitting off his dick in his drunken...
