Remi Tinubu writes IGP, seeks police protection from bully Melaye
The senator representing Lagos central in the upper legislative chamber, Remi Tinubu, has written a letter to the Acting Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, requesting police protection from...
View ArticleArase to Idris: You could have called me instead of running your mouth in the...
Former inspector-general of police (IGP), Solomon Arase, has denied the allegation that he took away 24 police vehicles while leaving office, according to a story in online newspaper, TheCable. On...
View ArticleLe Guen has been named as Super Eagles coach
Frenchman Paul Le Guen has been named as the new manager of Nigeria’s male football team, the Super Eagles. He was once coach of the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon and had a successful spell in the 1st...
View ArticleAPC: A wife beater and gangster like Dino Melaye has no place in the senate
Youth of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Lagos chapter, have described the senator representing Kogi West in the senate, Dino Melaye, as a violent man who shouldn’t be seen among distinguished...
View ArticleNigerians descend on president Buhari for exclusion of Dambazau’s name in...
By Samuel Ogundipe for Premium Times President Buhari has come under attack over reports suggesting his government may have deliberately doctored the latest report of the presidential arms audit...
View ArticleTrump’s campaign acknowledges that Melania Trump stole some parts of...
Donald Trump may have nothing nice to say about Barack Obama, but Trump’s model wife Melania appears to be an admirer of the First Lady. It didn’t take long after Melania Trump finished her address to...
View ArticleLe Guen was named Super Eagles coach on Monday. And then he quits the job on...
It’s not really the stuff that Solomon Grundys are made of, but it’s pretty close. Paul Le Guen who has coached Lyon, PSG and the indomitable lions of Cameroon at different periods, has dumped...
View ArticleThere’ll be no untouchable areas as we work on PIB–Dogara
DogaraIn view of agitation by various interests in the country over petroleum resources and how they are being managed, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon Yakubu Dogara, has stated...
View Article‘I’m committed to the APC’| Saraki wants you to know he hasn’t defected to...
Rumours swirled earlier today to the effect that senate president Bukola Saraki is returning to the PDP, from whence he once came. But he’s denied those rumours in a statement made available through...
View ArticleRemi Tinubu gets to head a juicy desk as Saraki reshuffles senate committee...
Given the week she’s had, Senator Oluremi Tinubu was due a pacifier. And so did a clutch of senators who’ve been anti-Bukola Saraki since the election that threw up the former Kwara governor into the...
View ArticleRep Jibrin hits back: “Speaker Dogara is a coward, petty, narrow minded and...
Vocal, young and brash, Abdulmumin Jibrin was replaced as chairman of the House committee on appropriation on Wednesday. News reports say he was sacked for his role in padding the 2016 budget, but...
View ArticleOne House of Reps member has been found dead
Adewale Elijah Oluwatayo, a member of the federal house of representatives, has been discovered dead in his bedroom, according to TheCable. Until his death, Oluwatayo was representing Ifako/Ijaiye...
View Article‘Jibrin is only running his mouth because we kicked him out’|| Dogara responds
Adulmumin Jibrin’s castigation of principal officers of the House was all sour grapes because he was sacked as head of the house appropriation committee on Wednesday, the leadership of the House of...
View ArticleAbimbola Adelakun: If Nigeria were a better country, Dino Melaye would be in...
Let me admit upfront that I do not care much about Senator Remi Tinubu’s encounter with her legislative colleague, Dino Melaye. No, not out of any schadenfreude (defined as pleasure derived by someone...
View ArticleKano state govt approves N115m for upkeep of its students abroad
Kano state Executive Council has approved N115, 400, 477. 6 for payment of upkeep and other allowances, for three months, in respect of 459 students of the state, studying in six countries. The...
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Meet the man hired to have sex with children even though he’s HIV positive
By Ed Butler for the BBC In some remote southern regions of Malawi, it’s traditional for girls to be made to have sex with a paid sex worker known as a “hyena” once they reach puberty. The act is not...
View ArticleJumai Abubakar: Addressing the bad behaviour of the selfish, childish, bitter...
The Nigerian political scene has presented Nigerians with one form of drama or the other since May 2015 when the Buhari administration was sworn in. From the anti-corruption fight and interesting...
View ArticleDogara mourns passing of Hon Elijah Oluwatayo
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has described the sudden death of Hon. Adewale Elijah Oluwatayo as a shock to him. The late lawmaker – who died on Wednesday –...
View ArticleState governors in gay mood as Abuja doles out highest allocation of 2016
For the first time in the 2016 fiscal period, Nigeria’s federal, state and local governments shared over half a trillion naira from sales of oil and gas, tax, Customs and other revenue sources. The...
View ArticleWe haven’t taken over funding of junior secondary schools–Kwara state government
Contrary to media reports, the Kwara State government says it is yet to take over the funding of junior secondary education from local governments in the State. In a statement issued on Friday...
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