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The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, on Monday raised the alarm over the deployment of military personnel in over 28 states in the country. Dogara said the development was an indication that Nigeria was already in a state of emergency in peacetime The Speaker expressed shock …

The acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Monday signed the 2017 Appropriation Bill into law. Osinbajo appended his signature on the document at about 4:41pm inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The brief event was witnessed by principal officers of the National Assembly, presidential aides and other top government officials.  

A new grand plan by an Aso Rock cabal led by the Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, to weaken the constitutional authority of Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has taken off at the presidential palace in Abuja, with a meeting held in London last week. The new scheme comes after an …

Despite insistence by the Presidency that none of the Judges recently recalled by the National Judicial Council, NJC, should return to the bench, Justice Adeniyi Ademola, on Wednesday, resumed sitting at the Federal High Court in Abuja. Justice Ademola was among eight superiors court Judges that were arrested after a …

*By Martins Oloja* We can’t deny that we always doze off at the point of our need for purposeful leadership. We have never been vigilant about quality political recruitment in our journey through democratisation. One of our icons, Professor Chinua Achebe, saw this long ago and in 1983, he wrote …

  The Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has insisted that Nigeria cannot afford to disintegrate. He said the diversity of the country was the reason why other countries have respect for Nigeria. Osinbajo, who was on a two-day official visit to Cross River State, said this on Thursday during a …

Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, has urged Nigerians to ignore the media reports on Coup plot, saying it should not be stretched beyond what the military authorities had said. Mr. Adesina stated this at a media chat with State House correspondents to mark …

  Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has asked Nigerians to learn from the history of Nigeria’s civil war rather than beating the drums of a second civil war, saying while the wise learn from history, experience remains the best teacher for a fool. In a keynote address, “Greater Together than Apart” …

The governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has briefed President Muhammadu Buhari on the stability in the Foreign Exchange market and other activities of the apex bank. The News Agency of Nigeria said Mr. Emefiele, who spoke to State House correspondents after a closed-door meeting with …

THE Leader of Abia State House of Assembly, Mr.  Chinedum Orji has called on the leaders and stakeholders of the main opposition party, PDP, to stop the infighting, blame game and bickering over the loss in the 2015 election, saying that the party failed because the leaders did not plan …