Month: June 2019

Some concerned Nigerians have filed a suit against the payment of over N4.68 billion as ‘welcome package’ to the incoming members of the ninth National Assembly. In the suit filed at the Federal High Court, Lagos at the weekend, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), BudgIT and Enough is Enough Nigeria (EiE), are asking…

President Muhammadu Buhari has accepted the resignation of Walter Onnoghen, former chief justice of Nigeria. Starnews reports that Onnoghen was accused of non-declaration of assets traced to him. He was suspended by the president earlier in the year weeks before the general elections. The top jurist who was on trial later wrote the president to…

Senate President Bukola Saraki has directed the National Assembly Management to distribute his severance allowance to the families of Leah Sharibu and two other aid workers killed by Boko Haram terrorists. He also instructed children of late Senators in need of financial assistance should benefit from the allowance. In a statement by his Special Adviser…

* Fixes a date for hearing in a time-bound presidential election petition * Litigants May Lose Faith, says Omoregie * Lawyers Knock Bulkachuwa Over Delay After 18 days of waiting anxiously for Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa to name her replacement and fix a date for hearing in a time-bound presidential election petition, the Peoples Democratic Party…

President Muhammadu Buhari has not announced a single appointment into his administration, 11 days after he was sworn in for a second term of four years. Mr Buhari wrapped up his first term and immediately began a new tenure on May 29. His first term cabinet was officially dissolved on May 28, alongside all other…

Five persons, including a couple, died in a road accident in Abuja on Sunday. A sixth person, who was seriously injured in the incident which occurred at about 8 a.m. near Setraco Junction along Kubwa Expressway, was rushed to the hospital. According to an official of Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Emmanuel Agbo, the incident…

Mrs Hauwa Danbaba, the wife of former Taraba state governor, Suntai Danbaba, has perfected all arrangements to remarry after she became a widow following the death of her husband caused by a plane crash. Starnews learnt that Hauwa shared her pre-wedding pictures with her newly found love, Ahmed Jarman, a young handsome man who looks…

64 Senators-elect have endorsed the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ahmed Lawan as the Senate President of the ninth Assembly ahead of Tuesdays inauguration. The documents have 62 APC, one YPP, and one PDP Senators-Elect endorse Lawan as unopposed. Lawan who spoke after the list was read by the Secretary of his campaign…

The All Progressives Congress in the South-South has endorsed the Senator representing Delta Central, Ovie Omo-Agege, as the next Deputy Senate President. The declaration confirmed a May 10 Punch report which stated that the national leadership of the party had settled for the senator and set machinery in motion for his emergence. Senator Francis Alimikhena…