•Late ex-President Muhammadu Buhari (centre) and members of his cabinet at the State House An All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Alwan Hassan, has claimed that 95 per cent of ministers who served under former President Muhammadu Buhari should be behind bars, alleging that their tenure was a period of unchecked power and alleged corrup...
•Tanimu Turaki The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Tanimu Turaki (SAN), today moved to consolidate his authority within the party as former governors and ministers elected and appointed on the PDP platform rallied behind the new National Working Committee (NWC), in what appears to be an early, coordinated effort to rep...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate has commenced probe into the widespread and scientifically-verified lead-poisoning disaster ravaging Ogijo, a densely populated community located at the Ogun-Lagos States border. Responding to the alarm over the incident, the Senate summoned the Ministers of Environment, Health, Solid Minerals, Labour and Employment...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has sworn in two newly appointed ministers, Bernard Doro and Kingsley Ude. The president swore them in at a brief ceremony on Thursday, inside the Council Chamber of the State House, Abuja, moments before he presided over the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, reports Channels TV. Doro, a pharmacist a...
•Muhammadu Sanusi II The Emir of Kano and former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Muhammadu Sanusi II, has warned ministers and presidential aides against turning themselves into praise singers rather than giving the President honest advice that can save the nation’s economy. Sanusi gave the charge yesterday in Abuja at the Oxfor...
The Code of Conduct Bureau has said that its newly established Financial Investigation and Fraud Analysis Unit has reviewed more than 500 asset declaration forms. The Bureau’s chairman, Abdullahi Bello, made this known in a statement today, signed by the Bureau’s Director of Special Duties, Moses Atolagbe, outlining his achievements after one ...
•Incarcerated IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu Governors, ministers and former military chiefs are among notable personalities listed as witnesses by Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader Nnamdi Kanu as witnesses in his terrorism case. The IPOB leader, whose no-case submission was dismissed by Justice James Omotosho, is due to open his defence on ...
•Adebayo Shittu, Kemi Adeosun and Tunji-Ojo Uche Nnaji, Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, is currently in the eye of the storm over his academic qualification. Following investigation by PREMIUM TIMES, the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), disowned the Bachelor of Science degree certificate in the possession of the Minister, s...
•Femi Falana, SAN Human rights advocate, Femi Falana, has faulted the plan to increase the salaries of political office holders, describing it as “highly insensitive” amid Nigeria’s current economic challenges. During an interview on Channels Television today, Falana criticised the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission for what...
•Tinubu, Akpabio and Abbas The Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) has commenced a strategic retreat in Kano State, aimed at harmonising reports in the bid to review the remuneration packages for political, public, and judicial office holders across the country. Declaring the retreat open, the Chairman of RMAFC, Moham...

