A Federal High Court Abuja has fixed Jan. 21, to hear a suit seeking to disqualify President Muhammadu Buhari from contesting the 2019 general elections. The plaintiffs, Mr Kalu Agu, Labaran Ismail and Hassy El-Kuris, allege that the president lied in his form CF 001 submitted to the
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday revealed his next line of action when the new minimum wage for workers is implemented. Buhari disclosed that his administration will be going into negotiations for salary review for all the workers who are already earning above the new minimum wage. The president made the disclosure while inaugurating a technical […]
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Khadija Bukar Abba Ibrahim, has resigned her appointment from President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet. She hinged her action on the need to run for elective office come February 2019 to represent the Damaturu/Tarmuwa/Gujba/Gulani federal constituency of Yobe State. She defeated her son-in law, Mohammed Bukar Abba Ibrahim to emerge flag
The secretary of the Kebbi State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Muhammadu Sakaba, has defected to the All Progressives Congress along with his supporters. Sakaba, who was received by Gov. Atiku Bagudu, announced his defection in Birnin Kebbi on Wednesday. “I have now defected from PDP to APC due to my belief on […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Wednesday called for a different approach to the deployment of security forces during elections. The chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, stated this in Abuja during the Commission’s regular quarterly consultative meeting on the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security. According to him, the meeting was
The Awujale and Paramount Ruler of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, has declared his total support for the emergence of the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prince Dapo Abiodun, as the successor of the incumbent, Senator Ibikunle Amosun. The monarch made this declaration on Tuesday when he received Abiodun and his running-mate, […]










