Month: June 2018

The lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Senator Dino Melaye has said that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is “suffering from a dreadful continental abnormality.” Senator Melaye dropped this bomb Shell on Channels Television Programme, Politics Today while speaking on the current state of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Melaye who claimed that he does not have a…

Admiral Akin Aduwo, 80, is a former Chief of Naval Staff during the Shehu Shagari regime. He was also a military governor of the Western State for a month. He shares some of his experiences with Adeola Balogun and Ademola Olonilua When you reflect on your life at 80, what would you thank God for?…

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has accused the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari of trying to frame him up and arrest him in oder for the government to silent him and put him out of public circulation as a means of preventing him from further expressing angst on the pervasive mediocrity in the quality of governance, economic…

Following the posthumous award of GCFR conferred on late M. K. O Abiola by president Muhammadu Buhari, the Senate has yesterday asked the federal government to pay all the entitlements due to late Abiola and his running mate ,Babagana Kingibe with immediate effect. The lawmakers were uninanimous in their decision yesterday at the plenary. Recall…

Femi Falana, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), says President Muhammadu Buhari is not prohibited by law to confer national honours on deserving Nigerians, dead or alive. Falana said this on Thursday in reaction to a statement by Alfa Belgore, a former chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), describing as illegal, the conferment of Nigeria’s highest…

President Muhammadu Buhari led federal government has increased maternity leave from 3 months to four months, Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige has said. The government also advised women to seek legal action against discrimination and abuses at workplace. Ngige Said this was done “to allow enough recuperation time for both baby and mother…

President Muhammadu Buhari has declared June 12 as Democracy Day in honour of the late M. K. O Abiola. He also conferred a posthumous GCFR title on the late Chief Moshood Abiola. The President in a tweet on his official handle explained why June 12 will replace May 29. He noted that June 12 is…

Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has directed the minister of Defence, Dan Ali to withdraw his statement where he asked state governments to suspend implementation of anti grazing Laws in states where such were enacted. The Senate today said that open grazing law in some states were validly enacted according to the constitution of…

Herdsmen has again attacked Benue community in Guma and Logo local government areas of Benue State in two separate attacks with over 45 houses burnt down, leaving several residents displaced. Starnews gathered that 9 persons were killed. 6 persons were killed in Tse Shan, and two in Tse Nyamkyume in Saghev, Guma local government while one person was…