Month: June 2019

The Borno Governor, Babagana Zulum, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to explore other options rather than the use of force against Boko Haram insurgents. Zulum was reacting to Boko Haram fighters backed by the Islamic State West African Province earlier attack on least four Nigerian Army bases, raising concerns among the troops of the Operation…

The Katsina PDP governorship candidate in the 2019 election, Yakubu Lado, has raised questions over Governor Aminu Masari’s qualification to contest the election, saying the governor parades “To Whom It May Concern” not secondary school certificate. According to the candidate of PDP, the governor also shares same age with his father. Addressing journalists after the…

Gov. Yahaya Bello, Kogi state governor has taken state influential traditional rulers to beg Mr. Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigeria President for his endorsement for the November 11 state governor election. All the prominent traditional rulers in the state followed Bello to beg Buhari, except Mr. Ado Ibrahim, the Ohinoyi of Ibiraland. Starnews gathered that Ibrahim…

President Muhammadu Buhari has spoken on the absence of former President Olusegun Obasanjo at the June 12 Democracy Day celebrations. DAILY POST reported that Obasanjo, former President Goodluck Jonathan, General Gowon, Babangida, among others were not present at the event. Obasanjo, however, claimed that he was not invited for the national event. However, in a…

The Code of Conduct Bureau says producing details of asset declarations submitted to it by successive presidents and state governors since 1999 will amount to an invasion of the privacy of their asset declaration forms.  The CCB said this in a response to the FOI request by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project addressed to…

Bayo Omoboriowo, who is the Chief Official Photographer to President Muhammadu Buhari prior to his days as president in 2015, reveals how the president’s pictures always portray his real personality. Having released two photobooks of the president: a 314-page ‘Buhari a new beginning’ and 330-page ‘Being Buhari’, he declared that the president doesn’t fancy posing…

A controversy is brewing over the appointment by the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, on Tuesday, of Festus Adedayo as his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity. Mr Lawan had also appointed Mohammed Aji as his Chief of Staff. Betty Okoroh, the Special Adviser to the Senate President on Administration, said the appointments were made based…

The Federal Government has called on Nigerians to disregard rumour of a positive case of Ebola Virus Disease in the country, saying that effort had been heightened at the various ports of entry into the country to ensure that sick people making coming into Nigeria were properly screened. Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda have…

The Senate President, Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan, has re-appointed Mr. Olu Onemola as a Special Assistant on New Media. Mr. Onemola occupied the same office in the immediate past 8th Senate under the leadership of Dr. Bukola Saraki. In a statement made available to journalists on Wednesday by the Chief of Staff to the Senate President,…

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has disclosed that the rate of extreme poverty in Nigeria keeps him awake at nights. He made the disclosure while lamenting over the high rate of poverty in the country. Osinbajo stated this during a dinner and interactive session with faculty members of the Harvard Business School, HBS, on…

The crisis rocking the Edo State House of Assembly may have crept into the new legislative arm of government as thugs alleged to be supporting the state governor attacked Mr Seidu Oshiomhole, younger brother of the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, in Benin. The thugs attacked Oshiomhole on Tuesday alongside…