Month: June 2019

The Senator representing Yobe North constituency, Ahmed Lawan, has won the leadership position of the ninth National Assembly. Senator Lawan defeated his opponent Ali-Ndume with 79 votes from the lawmakers, thereby making him the Senate President. His victory was announced by the clerk of the National Assembly, Mohammed Sani-Omolori, who added that 107 senators cast…

President Muhammadu Buhari and the members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Caucus on Monday night met behind closed doors. The meeting started around 9.30pm at the Ladi Kwali Conference Centre, Abuja. Among those at the meeting included Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole. Also at the meeting were Kebbi State Governor,…

The acting managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Nelson Braimbraifa, has been quizzed by Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), PREMIUM TIMES has learnt. Mr Braimbraifa, alongside the NDDC executive director of finance, Chris Amadi, was said to have been a guest of the EFCC’s investigators in Abuja…

Immediate past Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, on Monday said that the Independent National Electoral Commission had yet to issue him with a Certificate of Return as the Imo West senator-elect despite a federal High Court’s judgment ordering the electoral umpire to do so. Okorocha in a statement issued in Owerri, the state capital,…

A woman, Mrs Olawumi Adeleye and her stepson, Destiny Paul, were allegedly abducted on the Airport Road, in Osi town in the Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State. The Punch reports that the victims were said to have been kidnapped by the bandits on their way from the church on Sunday evening. According…

*Says I have encountered them once and even as a governor with my crew Rotimi Akeredolu, Governor of Ondo State, says his orderly became jittery when his convoy encountered a gang of kidnappers, boasting that he cannot be whisked away by the criminals. He admitted that travelling on Nigerian roads has become a major source…

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) has dismissed a petition challenging the victory recorded by President Muhammadu and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last presidential election. The Coalition for Change (C4C) and its presidential candidate, Geff Chizee Ojinika, had filed the petition marked: CA/PEPTL/003/2019, in which they complained of unlawful exclusion…

The Nigerian Army has said that it decimated nine key media personalities of the Islamic State-backed Boko Haram splinter group (ISWAP). According to a statement by the army on Monday, those killed, include Abu Hurayra al-Barnawi, Ali al-Ghalam al-Kajiri, Abu Musab Muhammed Mustafa al-Maiduguri, and Abu Abdullah Ali al-Barnawi. Others are Abu Musa al-Camerooni, Ahmed…

The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) on Sunday warned Nigerians against allowing Senator Ahmed Lawan to become the President of the ninth Senate. The AYCF linked the support Lawan is currently getting from some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as related to the secret pursuit of personal ambitions ahead of 2023 general elections.…

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal is now headed by Justice M. L Garba, who is the Presiding Justice of the Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal. Garba, who appeared on the five-man panel for the first time on Monday, replaces the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa. Bulkachuwa had withdrawn from…

Thirty-two-year-old Adebo Ogundoyin, a member representing Ibarapa East area has emerged the Speaker of the Ninth Oyo state House of Assembly. Ogundoyin emerged unopposed and with the unanimous voice vote of the 32 members Assembly. Ogundoyin, a graduate of Babcock University’s emergence is favoured by a combination of factors such as his party affiliation, zoning…