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The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges, and Public Petitions on Monday summoned Danladi Umar, the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), who is presiding over Bukola Saraki’s corruption trial. Mr. Saraki, the Senate President, is facing 13 counts of false assets declaration and fraud before the CCT. According to The Nation newspaper, Justice […]

The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) yesterday ordered daily hearing in the ongoing 13-count criminal charge against the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki. Tribunal chairman Danladi Umar made the order pursuant to provisions of sections 376 and 315 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, ACJA, 2015. This is even as Senators loyal to Saraki […]

The Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies (SSAEAC) on Monday said it was ready to reveal the challenges facing the Power sector in Nigeria and how to solve them. Mr Chris Okokwo, the newly-elected president of the union spoke to journalists in Lagos during the handover ceremony of its outgoing president, Mr Bede […]

Last October, Nigeria’s biggest indigenous oil and gas company, Oando Plc, made history for the wrong reason when it announced a loss of N184 billion in the 2014 financial year. The loss was the biggest ever recorded by any Nigerian company. While its shareholders bore the brunt of the bleak financial year, the company’s Group […]

A former National President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, says most people who claim to be pastors or men of God are not, as they were not called by God in the first place. Oritsejafor expressed displeasure over how ‘these men of God’ have now turned the church into a business […]

In Buhari’s first coming, he bamboozled Nigerians with a so-called War against Indiscipline.  This entailed treating Nigerians, young and old, like primary school children.  We were forced to queue at bus-stops under the watchful eyes of soldiers wielding whips with orders to flog publicly those deemed unruly.  Late-coming civil-servants were required to do frog-jumps.  The […]

Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, Leader of the House of Representatives, has written a letter to President Xi Jingpin of China in respect of an earlier letter by Governor Ayodele Fayose urging the Chinese government to decline request of financial assistance from Nigeria. In the letter made available to this medium, Gbajabiamila said Fayose’s claim that he […]

Remember yesterday the Police in Philadelphia investigating a shooting said that a 4 year old girl was shot in the face by her 5 year old brother when they were playing with a gun? Well, they have now found out that the girl wasn’t killed by her brother as it was claimed yesterday but by […]

Brazil’s lower house of Congress voted late Sunday to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, with at least 342 of 513 deputies voting in favor, to move her impeachment for fiscal irresponsibility forward. That threshold was passed shortly after 11 p.m. Brasília time Sunday, delivering a major blow to a long-embattled leader who repeatedly said there was a coup […]

The United States government has agreed to repatriate about $480million believed to have been stolen by the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha and his family while he was military head of state. According to The Nation, the US government agreed to the repatriation after a recent meeting between the Department of Justice and […]

The Lagos State Police Command says it has arrested a woman who allegedly raised a false alarm that put the lives of six members of a family at risk. This is contained in a statement by the command’s spokesperson, SP Dolapo Badmus, on Sunday in Lagos. Badmus said the family, which included two children, were […]

Four kids have died of suffocation in a suburb of Kano State after they were found trapped inside a parked vehicle. The tragedy, which had shaken the state, happened at the weekend. A Deputy Director in the state Fire Service, who was part of the rescue team, told Daily Sun that the kids were found […]

The Court of Appeal will for the first time in more than three decades sit in Awka for a week beginning from Monday. Mr Anali Chude, Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in Anambra, confirmed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Sunday. He said the court session would […]

More reactions have trailed Ekiti Governor, Ayodele Fayose’s letter to the Chinese Government, asking it to refuse President Muhammadu Buhari’s request of $2 billion loan. Chairmen of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Lagos State and other lawyers on Sunday condemned Fayose’s action, describing it as mere irritation and inconsequential. President Buhari had last week […]

Actress Stella Damasus took to her Instagram to celebrate her daughter Izzy. She shared the photo above and wrote: “I am so proud of my daughter @izzybelleimages who does not only handle lyrics and camera in church but does the #graphics too. I thank God everyday because not every 16 year old girl living in […]

Wife of Nigerian president, Mrs Aisha Buhari shared the above photo of her family on her official page. The photo features the first lady, her daughters, Zahra, Halima, grandchildren and so on. (LIB)

Nollywood veteran actor, Kenneth Okonkwo, was a guest at the White House early this month. He shared pictures from his visit on his Facebook page. Continue to see more photos. Source: LIB

You said he was sick. … You said he forged an interview. You predicted his death. You got money that was meant to fight Boko Haram and spent part of it buying newspaper centrespreads predicting the death of your fellow man. You have spent one year being the face of the opposition. A tragic indictment […]

Just a few weeks ago, Idris Elba walked out on Naiyana Garth, the British mother of his two-year-old son. Now the second wife he secretly married and divorced, Sonya Hamlin has stepped forward with a story of her own. Hamlin is a property lawyer whom Elba was married to for just a fe weeks before, he […]

I read an interesting article recently in which the author, objecting to President Muhammadu Buhari’s frequent travels abroad pointed out that Presidential spokespersons since 1999, including this writer, have always justified such trips using essentially the same arguments. The fellow quoted copiously and derisively from my State House press statements and an article by me […]