Abu Sidiq: I never said Buhari’s govt has let me down
It has become expedient for me to respond to a publication by an online platform which headlined a story claiming that I said Buhari’s Government has let me down. Shortly after my release from the...
View Article‘Ifreke Inyang previews the 2016/2017 premier league football season
It’s that time of the year again. Gripping games. Shockers. Controversies. Feisty confrontations. Mind games. Season-defining fixtures. Stadium cramped with excited fans, belting out songs in worship...
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Yobo was one of the Ogoni leaders Buhari met with today and we’ve got the...
Give it up for Joseph Yobo. The former Super Eagle is now an Ogoni leader, from leading the country’s football team out on the pitch. If you doubt us, here’s President Muhammadu Buhari in his own...
View ArticleOsinbajo inaugurates committee on concession of Nigeria Railways
Determined to spur a transformation of the railway infrastructure in the country, the Federal Government is proceeding with the concession of the eastern and western lines of the Nigeria Railways with...
View ArticleOne of Buhari’s economic aides is dead
Mr. Ayoleke O. Adu, who served as the senior special assistant to the president on economic matters, has passed on. In a statement signed by Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant-Media &...
View ArticleGov Ganduje commissions pipe laying at Zaria road
Governor of Kano state, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, inspected pipe laying at Zaria Road on Saturday. The pipes will have a total length of 27 kilometres, from Challawa to Hadejia road. So far, 10KM of...
View ArticleNigeria Dances past Danes into semis. 3 things we learned
By Jude Egbas A goal each from Mikel Obi and Aminu Umar was enough to sweep Nigeria into the semi finals of the football event of the Rio Olympics at the expense of Denmark. A couple of things we...
View ArticleNiger killings: David Umaru as the lone voice of reason
The month of August, 2016, will be remembered by the people of Niger as that of bloodbath and preventable extrajudicial killings. We witnessed the biggest crisis in the state that resulted in losses...
View ArticleEmmanuel Udeagha: How police officers extort money from travelers at the...
Dear Inspector General of Police, Federal Republic of Nigeria What I’m about to write is not new to you and perhaps won’t be the last you will hear or read about. I’m also sure the state of affairs...
View ArticleKano state govt will recruit more medical workers, says governor Ganduje
The Kano state government will recruit more medical doctors and allied personnel to man its hospitals in a bid to facilitate delivery of more efficient health care services, the state governor, Dr....
View ArticleHouse transparency group demands the immediate resignation of “fraudulent”...
Transparency Group, a group of self-proclaimed anti-corruption lawmakers, on Saturday disparaged Speaker Yakubu Dogara for allegedly playing down the unfolding budget padding scandal in the House of...
View ArticleThis is what Hon Jibrin told APC execs when he met with them last week
Former chairman of the House committee on appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin, isn’t ready to back down from his allegations against Speaker Yakubu Dogara, even after entreaties to do so by his party,...
View ArticleI have no personal issues with Amaechi, says Wike
Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike and his predecessor Rotimi Amaechi, once worked together, but that now seems like eons ago. The duo have had media and public spats for a while now, resulting in...
View ArticleREPORT: Jonathan is the grand patron of the Niger Delta Avengers
A group that recently split from Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), a militant organization that has claimed responsibility for bombing numerous oil facilities, has claimed that former President Goodluck...
View ArticleKwara cuts tertiary institutions’ subventions, disburses N430m
Kwara State government says it has so far disbursed the sum of N430, 388, 359.24 as subventions to seven of the State-owned tertiary institutions in 2016, noting that an outstanding balance of N86,...
View ArticleBuhari is off to Chad on Monday
President Muhammadu Buhari will leave Abuja for N’Djamena on Monday to attend the inauguration of President Idriss Deby of Chad. This information is contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday...
View Article‘Only the prejudiced and ill intentioned will accuse Dogara of corruption’–NANS
The National Association of Nigerian Students has declared support for Speaker Yakubu Dogara’s leadership of the House of Representatives. The association made this known in Abuja on Sunday during a...
View ArticleJonathan says there’s a grand plot to assassinate him
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has raised the alarm that his life is under threat, according to a report in Punch newspaper. Jonathan said a list, which named him and other South-South leaders as...
View Article3 things we learned as Nigeria’s U-23 side powered past Sweden into the...
By Jude Egbas Stanley Amuzie’s pin-point cross in the 39th minute found the bean-pole Sadiq Umar, who duly obliged, nodding home Nigeria’s only goal of the game in the football event of the Rio...
View Article‘Dogara wants to kill me’|| Here’s all you missed on the night Jibrin opened...
A defiant former chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, on Sunday said he had identified two governors working to shield Speaker Yakubu Dogara from prosecution over the...
View ArticleReuben Abati: Rio Olympics, change and the United States of Nigeria
“ I hear we are no longer Nigeria, but the United States of Nigeria” “You didn’t hear anything. Stop being hypocritical, my friend.” “But the incumbent Minister of Sports is on record as having said...
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‘I’m very sorry’| Dalung apologizes to Nigeria’s U-23 football team inside...
Sports minister Solomon Dalung offered an apology and a half to Nigeria’s U-23 men’s football team after they defied shoddy preparation, late arrival in Rio and characteristic tardiness from their...
View ArticleFayose: “Aisha Buhari never visited the U.S. She was photo-shopped in Qatar”
Ekiti State governor Ayodele Fayose and the PDP in his state, have jointly released a statement saying wife of the president, Aisha Buhari, never visited the United States as was widely reported....
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WORLD RECORD: Paul Pogba is now a Red Devil and you can take this to the bank...
Manchester United have secured the long-awaited signing of midfielder Paul Pogba from Juventus for a world-record fee. Pogba, 23, returns to Old Trafford four seasons after departing for Italy, with...
View ArticleOne APC chieftain just branded Buhari “a total failure”
Hussaini Mairiga is a factional chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano state. When he addressed journalists on Monday, he minced very little words on what he thinks of the Muhammadu...
View ArticleBudget padding: Presidency slams Jibrin, says he never requested to meet Buhari
The last time Hon Abdulmumin Jibrin let his mouth and fingers run, he accused two governors and three ex lawmakers of shielding him from meeting the president to state his own side of the story of...
View ArticleMeanwhile, Jibrin carried loads of documents to the police yesterday as he...
Like we had exclusively reported last week, Hon Abdulmumin Jibrin is not about to back down on his goal to send Speaker Yakubu Dogara to jail. The Punch newspaper reports that on Monday, Jibrin met...
View ArticleAPC slams EFCC for arrest of blogger Abubakar Usman, says it’s an attempt to...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in the United Kingdom has described the arrest of Abubakar Usman Sidiq popularly known as “Abusidiq” by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), as an...
View Article‘False and misleading’| APC rubbishes media reports claiming deaths of 1,005...
The All Progressives Congress in Kwara State has said media reports that claimed 1,005 pensioners died in Kwara State, is false and misleading. In a statement signed by the State Publicity Secretary...
View ArticleJUST IN: Boko Haram to strike Abuja, Imo, markets, schools, police stations...
The army headquarters has revealed plans by terrorist sect Boko Haram to hit public places in Nigeria’s federal capital city of Abuja, the south east state of Imo and security posts in the north of...
View ArticleGernot Rohr…get used to pronouncing the name of the new Super Eagles coach
German tactician Gernot Rohr will oversee the affairs of Nigeria’s Super Eagles at least for another two years, and that’s official. BREAKING: Mr. Gernot Rohr signs two-year contract to work with the...
View ArticleGov Ahmed directs contractors to return to sites
Kwara State Governor, Dr. Abdulfatah Ahmed has directed contractors handling various projects in the State to return to sites immediately. Governor Ahmed who gave the directive in Ilorin at the...
View ArticleJUST IN: Blogger Abubakar Usman is free again
Abubakar Usman who runs the eponymous political blog Abusidiqu.com, has been released by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) after two directors in the federal civil service signed his...
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The 1st pictures as blogger Abubakar Usman regains his freedom
Earlier, we had brought you the story that political blogger Abubakar Usman, who was arrested by the EFCC on Monday, has regained his freedom. Thanks to Twitter user Etin-Osa @etinmagbe, who was at...
View ArticleOkah brothers vow to sue “perpetually timid and naive Jonathan” within 60 days
Henry and Charles Okah who are facing terrorism charges in Nigeria and South Africa, have vowed to sue former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan within 60 days for commenting on matters before the...
View ArticleBasketmouth: ‘I would have voted anyone who could speak two words of English...
Ace Nigerian comedian, Bright Okpocha who goes by the stage name Basketmouth, has called out immediate past president Goodluck Jonathan for leaving Nigeria “in a septic tank”. In an Instagram post he...
View ArticleThe presidency wants you to know that Buhari has nothing to with the budget...
The Presidency has distanced itself from the budget padding scandal rocking the National Assembly, saying the Appropriation Act being implemented was the one passed by the lawmakers in March. The...
View ArticleGov Ahmed sets up visitation panels for COED, Oro and CAILS
The Kwara State governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has approved the constitution of visitation panels for the College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies (CAILS), Ilorin and the College of...
View ArticleJAIL-BREAK: 15 inmates bolt from Nsukka prison
At least 15 inmates have escaped in a jailbreak that occurred at Nsukka Prison in Enugu state, reports the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Quoting a source at the prison, NAN said the inmates broke...
View Article3 things we learned on the night Colombia took Nigeria apart #Football
By Jude Egbas At the men’s football event of the Rio Olympics, Nigeria lost its final group game to Colombia by two goals to nil. A few lessons the technical crew may have picked up…. Goalkeeper...
View ArticleOn the cyber-stalker near you: The power of arrest of the EFCC examined | By...
This week, the blogger and rabid defender of the rule of unlaw, Abubakar Sidiq Usman, was arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission following a dawn raid of his Kubwa,...
View ArticleBreakaway Avengers faction provides more shocking details linking Jonathan...
By TheCable Goodluck Jonathan, immediate past president, is the grand patron of the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), says splinter group, Reformed Niger Delta Avengers (RNDA). The RNDA recently “broke...
View ArticleI’m not complaining about running 3 ministries–Fashola
Minister of power, works and housing, Babatunde Fashola has said he’s got no problems coping with the amount of work running three ministries entails, while urging those who have a problem with his...
View Article#InCaseYouMissedIt: “Economic bullshit!”|| El-Rufai undresses CBN and Emefiele
The Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai, on Wednesday decried the Central Bank’s prevailing fiscal regime, saying the bank’s 14 per cent monetary policy rate has led to massive job losses in the...
View ArticleGovernor Bello will be probing failed contracts in Kogi
Kogi state governor, Yahaya Bello has resolved to probe failed contracts during past administrations in the state. The decision was taken during the latest executive council meeting. In a statement,...
View ArticleJUST IN: Buhari and Soyinka locked in meeting
President Muhammadu Buhari is currently engaged in talks with Nobel Laureate Prof Wole Soyinka at the presidential villa. Journalists have been barred from covering proceedings as the meeting is being...
View Article‘There’s no state in Nigeria that isn’t safe’| Lai Mohammed is angry with the...
The Federal Government on Thursday debunked recent negative reports by the U.S. government about the safety of citizens in at least 20 of the 36 states of the federation. Minister of Information and...
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‘We had quite a lot to talk about’, says Buhari after meeting with Soyinka...
President Muhammadu Buhari had a silver-maned visitor in his office on Thursday: Nobel laureate Prof Wole Soyinka. While Aso Villa has remained tight-lipped on the details from that meeting, President...
View ArticleWhy we pad budgets–Dogara
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, on Thursday, gave reasons why he failed to surrender himself to be interrogated by the Police Special Investigating Panel over alleged padding...
View ArticlePOWER LIST: Top 100 Twitter Influencers of 2016
Social media has come to define the way we live, work and play. The smartphone has become our bae. And we are not even sorry. In 2016, Twitter continued to play a prominent role in political, sporting...
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