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“Resign Now If You Think You Are Too Old To Be President,” PDP Slams Buhari Over Old Age Comment

The PDP Media Watchdog has reacted to the statement credited to President Muhammadu Buhari in which he declared and admitted that age will limit the rate of his performance in office as President of Nigeria. The group while reacting to the statement on Wednesday June 17, 2015 said the APC and President Buhari are gang of hypocrites and liars. “The ... Read More »

Mimiko Emerges Chairman, PDP Governors’ Forum

Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State has been elected the chairman the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governors’ forum. Mr. Mimiko was elected at a meeting of the PDP governors in Maitama, Abuja, on Wednesday. The Ondo governor was deputy to the former chairman of the forum, Godswill Akpabio, the immediate past governor of Akwa Ibom State. The coordinator of the ... Read More »

Aftermath Of Buhari’s Tour: U.S Pledges $5m Contribution To Troops Against Boko Haram

United States has pledged a $5million contribution to the Nigeria led Multinational Joint Task force fighting Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast and some parts of the West Africa sub-region. The U.S embassy in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday said it announced $5million contribution and not $10million as reported by the media. Leader of the U.S government delegation ... Read More »

Oil Revenue Leakage! Buhari To Meet Anti-corruption Watchdog Head

Nigeria’s new leader will meet the head of a leading global watchdog on corruption to see how billions of dollars in oil revenue leakage can be curbed. The head of Oslo-based the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is expected to meet Nigeria’s president or vice president this week, its local arm said on Monday. Stamping out corruption was one of ... Read More »

Final Clearing! Tinubu Orders Ambode To Sack 46 Fashola Loyalists

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has sacked 76 Managing Directors, General Managers and all heads of Government Parastatals and Agencies as he dissolves all boards of parastatals in the State. Affected by the sack are the General Manager, Lagos State Traffic Management Agency (LASTMA); former Governor Babatunde Fashola’s sisters, Ms Olayinka Fashola; Managing Director, Lagos Internal Revenue Service, Tunde ... Read More »

Buhari To Fight Graft With 5 Special Laws

President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to employ five proposed laws as his weapons in the fight against corruption, close associates of the President have disclosed. Presidency sources disclosed that a committee of legends in law, led by the vice-president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo identified the five bills which have been passed on to the President for further scrutiny. The President in ... Read More »

Kwankwasho Calls On APC To Punish Saraki

Former Kano State Governor and member of the Senate, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, has called the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to sanction the Senate President Bukola Saraki for violating the party discipline. Speaking in an interview with selected journalists in Abuja on Monday, Kwankwasho said Saraki’s over-ambition gave way for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to reap where ... Read More »

Speaker Dogara Appoints Ex-colleague As Chief Of Staff

By Abdul Gafaar Bello – The newly-elected Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has appointed an ex-colleague in the lower Federal legislative chamber, Hon. Jerry Manwe as his Chief of Staff (COS). The appointment which was made public Monday, was stated in a letter signed by Dogara, dated June 15, 2015, with reference number, NASS/SPK/MGT/VOL.I/002 and ... Read More »